Show THE MODERN VOYAGE of the age for the convenience veni ence of traveler the reduction of time in the ocean passage is the most remarked cfall modern steamship advances buc byno means the most important the multitudes who are now about to come home from europe are not greatly advantaged vant aged by the saving of a day in the passage but they are enormously ben emitted by the improvements which have made the passage safe and so much more comfortable than of old the modern ocean liner is a great machine against which the anger of the sea is impotent no weather im perils its safety no wind endangers it no stress of storm can overcome its strength the passenger knows from the outset that whatever winds may blow his arrival in safety is as certain as anything human can be but the improvement does not stop with safety the form of these machines is such that the old distresses of motion are reduced to a minimum the passenger who walks deck eiph in air feels far less of the seas rage thana did his predecessor of a score of years ato who sailed just above the lent surface there are still persons who suffer with seasickness but theira number rows and the extent of their suffering less with many of them the qualms are due to previously excited imagination or to some physical condition for which the sea sickness is as good a remedy as any other the shortening of the voyage Is a gain but the improvements which have made the voyage safe and comfortable for even to the point of luxury have contributed far more to the sum of human happiness N Y world |