Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1936, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1936. Traveling Around in Europe A Happy Investigation Into the Fearsome “Blue Bucket” "Reputation of the English Channel. (No. 12 of a series.) BY 1. WILLIAM HILL, Staft Correspondent of The Star, "NALAIS, Prance—What the Euglish Channel needs is & good publicity man. Certainly there is no other body of water in the world with such a fearsome reputation for mountain= ous waves and little blue'buckets for the unfortunate. And that reputation, as old as ships, is still growing. It is spread by two classes of peo- ple—those who have crossed the chan- nel and want credit for it and those who plan to cross and get a certain pleasure out of worrying over the prospect. The latter are usually the same people who worry over germs. Horror-Story Collector. There was one of them at our ho- tel in London. He was a middle-aged t | man who made something of a hobby and without obligation. 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Two weeks later he was still scanning the daily weather reports in the London news= papers, particularly the last para- graph, which always gives the condi- tion of the English Channel. If the prediction was for a moderate sea he would always manage to find some one who was certain a next-day crossing would be rough, and if they didn’t think so he didn’t like them. We made a great hit with him the day we introduced him to & woman who had just crossed from Boulogne to Folkestone, for the first thing she said was this: “Every one was sick, even the cap- tain.” The upshot of it all was that the poor man finally sailed back to Amer- ica from Southampton and never saw the continent of Europe. Travel in Secret. It is a mistake to let anyone in London know you are about to leave for France. The first thing they say, shaking their head, is that “Paris isn’t what it used to be 20 years ago.” And when you assure them that you never saw an interesting person or place that hadn't changed in 20 years they either voice the rather half- hearted hope that you won't be sea- sick or launch into a recital of ways to prevent that dread calamity. By the time you're ready to leave Lon- dont you're already seasick mentally. In an attempt to get away from it all we purposely avoided reading the weather predictions the night before we were to sail from Dover to Calais. The next morning we peered anx- jously out our window. The weather was muggy and the mist so thick you could spread it with a knife. I2 was too much for our mild reserva Remembered snatches of ignored ad- vice went tumbling through our head. The Jumble of Advice. “Eat breakfast early. Don't eat anything on the train from London to Dover.” “Eat lemons.” “Fat crackers.” ) Scenes of an English Channel crossing- from Dover to Calais. “Don’t eat anything.” “Drink & small glass of brandy.” “Stay at the front of the ship,” or was it the “back”? “Stay out on deck.” “Don’t go out on deck.” . “Put cotton in your ears.” Lost in the weltering conflict, we proceeded to eat breakfast, because we were hungry. Then all the way to Victoria Station we worried over whether we had eaten too much. As if the impending phantasm of sea- sickness was not enough we suddenly remembered that the French customs were ahead. Just something else to ‘WOITy Oover. Fortunately one of the persons down to see us off was 8 white-haired former English sea captain. He was ADVERTISEMENT. FOR NEURITIS Try This 35¢c Test Sufferers of Neuritis. Rheumatism. Lum- bago and Neur: will welcome Sal- Ro-Cin. 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It's wet, but there's no wind.” After he sald that we felt better, for who could know better than & sea captain? We even enjoyed the train ride to Dover, where we regarded the smooth but rain-pocked water with an air of having known all along it would be like that. Passenger Pastimes. As the boat pulled away from the dock we began to take an interest in the way our fellow passengers were avoiding thoughts of seasickness. There was the woman who looked as it she might be a member of the Prohibition party. As she began to feel the throb of the ship beneath her feet she slipped hastily down into the ship saloon. There she apologetically ordered a glass of brandy, which she drapk in strictly medicinal fashion. Or the man who sat in his cabin with Prench coins and paper money spread out on the bunk beside him, while he tried to figure out the value of & 5-centime piece in terms of American money. Or the woman comfortably ensconced in her cabin reading “Gone With the Wind.” Half way across, where you can see the chalk cliffs of Dover behind and the rolling country that is France ahead, we began to experience a feeling of jubilance. We halted & young French officer whom we had heard speaking English. ‘Was the Captain Sick? “Is it true,” we laughed, “that the captain got sick the other day cross- ing from Boulogne to Folkestone?” “Yes” he said, smiling in & way only Frenchmen can smile, “He was sick—homesick.” Capt. Vigers was right. We had an easy crossing that lasted only a little more than an hour. When the ship docked, what appeared to be a thousand French porters came scur- rying down the gangplank, all talk- ing Prench at once. Finally one picked us out and gave us a metal check with his number on it. After a blended conversation of our poor French and his poor English, we finally comprehended that he would call out the number of our check in the customs office so we could find him and our baggage. Then, sling- ing all six bags on & strap over his shoulder, he left us. With the help of the porter the the French customs office we had wor- ried over. As we started for the train to take us to Paris we reflected that there are two things that ave horribly libeled— the English Channe! and customs officers. It was about then that we heard an American telling his companion: “——and s0 I said to myself if Gertrude Ederle could swim the plague-taking thing, I certainly could cross in s boat. But it is & rough body of water, isn’t it?” 3 In his voice there was the promise of the making of more reputation for the English Channel—later, when the people who crossed with him were not around. Nezt: Adrift in Paris, W Dr. Briggs Is Speaker. Dr. Lyman J. 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