Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — His Head. [ARTICLE]

His Head.

A passenger on a Cunard steamship had an experience which led her to believe that a seaman Is not apt to waste many thoughts on his personal troubles. The sailor who brought her to this opinion had a fall which resulted in a bad cut on the head, the second day out. She was solicitous in her inquiries as to his welfare when she saw the captain that night, and would undoubtedly have continued her sympathy had not a rough sea called to mind her own sufferings. Four days later, when she emerged, White and weak, from her stateroom, she suddenly remembered the poor sailor. In the course of the day she saw him, with a strip of plaster on his forehead. “How is your head?” she asked, kindly, as he passed by her bent on some duty. “West by south, ma’am,” was the reply, delivered with respectful but hasty clearness, and he was gone.—Youth’s Companion.