Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1898 — Cannot Have His Wife Abroad. [ARTICLE]

Cannot Have His Wife Abroad.

It is a strict rule with the big transAtlantic steamship companies that the wife of the captain shall not travel in his ship. The supposition is that if anything should happen to the ship the captain, instead of attending to his public duty, would devote his attention mainly to the safety of his wife.

There are few higher qualifications than that of reflection on surmounted evils, when they were not incurred nor protracted by our fault, and neither reproach us with cowardice not guilt.