Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — Men and Women at Sea. [ARTICLE]

Men and Women at Sea.

Walter Wellman gives us the following statistics ns to a voyage with moderately rough seas or long swell: Men seasick and invisible, 20 per cent.; men sick and on deck but not going down to meals, 25 per cent.; men who go to meals but only nibble through pride's sake, 15 per cent.; men who were “never seasick,” but who have “eaten something that disagreed with them,” 10 per cent.; men not sick at all, 25 per cent.; women too sick to leave their cabins. 35 per cent.; women sick on dock, 40 per cent.; women who are “not seasick at all,” but who have “bad headaches,” 15 per cent.; women who “don't feel Just right,” 7 per cent.; and women who really enjoy It, 3 per cent. —Argonaut.