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Apparently every man is a gentleman so long 55 every woman is a lady. Of course, though, we e roeen h h e rere mm eAE ROANAAARAAANAOTES short time, if at al, but when it comes to a real adventure, then tolled the San Francisco water front. But Mfi.nyfumdtheuphino(thelitfle ald "Bougainville" and told him what they wanted to do. Hi..gpl{wuahush---apdi'ehfldk whm,,orbemanllml"m bdiwunoteml(hm They pleaded, and begged to go. But the captain wanted no women on his ship. It had no accom-- modations for women. It carried a crew of only experienced sailors. And besides, At this the captain's resistance crumbled. He enrolled the two enthusiastic, bobbed-- haired, short--skirted fAlappers as junior officers and they became members of the crew with 19 Frenchmen and two native South Sea Islanders. -- "Of course, everyone warned us against GKL Yun mao vau wCmriN P --MARRE : OR CA OE S C t 0o huge rats. And I'm sure I ate cat once." "W/e were always feminine in our dress and our manner," Miss Cooper said. We were never without a lipstick and a powder puft. We wore frilly dresses, and kept ourselves as attrac-- tive as we could--though sometimes, it Was pretty lmdwbawedidnotrninloponformh and weeks, and never ound one good barber on the whole cruise. We learned to cut tu:h other's hair, rather wild looking." . 'The adventurous sailorwomen were 44 d a oo dn Tudbien busk belore it in its first stop at the Fiji Islands. .Mdullodoonnuiliubou. It's all up to the wind. Wbu'tbbm.thcboqrr:l. and when it doesn't, the boat stops. 's about all there is to the problem of locomotion. 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Cock-- roaches of unbelievable magnitude and boldness swarmed in and out of the sideboard, under the mattresses, in and out of the galleys, with that mattresses, in and oul of thnc galucys, VAL assurance and poise which only long a'::l:'lished residents could acquire. G¢T@UT what of that? The tub was bound out for the Huon Group and the Loyal-- _ ties, up the west coast of New Caledo-- i omton&mrioemddamtheewcom :mouttol.ifu. Now who that was in search of adventure could resist an itinerary like that?" Being a woman, and the only woman on the of dirt covered her JeX M the enE TT TNRAAA LIH®* «_ The lipsticked sailormomen . . . found the hardy sailors gallant gentlemen . . . not one unpleasant experience. enjoying the hospitality that can always be found in out of the way countries." . hy FTER several weeks of this, Miss Schoen caught a coolie ship from North Caledonia, and started upward to join Viola in the New Hebrides. This boat was nh_rfl'(:OO Indo-- Chinese laborers to the Hebrides. is time she slept on a table in the chart room. pneeveningshewuawnkenedahershehad retired on her table bed by. several 'shrill blasts from the whistle.: Upon investigation she found Lnte . w6 Eh a LLUUNIECTRENUURRRIRR TE 1+ (Copyright, 1923, NEA Magazine) at RHHHHHI t ufiious disease broke out, causing a further delay, and it was months before she joined her companion in adventure. During this time she found herself in many strange places in the South Seas, on boats and in litle heard--of settlements where : a white rtmn is a rarity and where life is still more or ess in the raw. : More often than not she was at the mercy of swarthy black men who could have done as they liked with her, and no one would ever have known what end she made. . But no harm befell her; she came through her extraordinary voyage of adventure as safely as though she had and cruelty such as Miss Schoen had never dreamed of witnessing. It was intended to put fear into the j hearts of the coolies--and it did. Then spinal meningitis broke out on the ship and she was quarantined for days. Eight of the laborers died and many others were ill. _ When this menace was over, another con-- tagious disease broke out, causing a further m en ied "J ol es redus i oh e CoFg SAE TTETTTUTETHEETE ET o uen rrronireine e en on hn t i on exdUTAUUIUUETUIE TT N IENIN N U UE NNRNIINNNION tfllllllllll\lIIIIHIIHHUHINIIl\IIIH\l|mIM\H\\HII\H"INHNllfigl\limifl A. on S e eb se i_'i i »pe?? "',,f:/fg *'There are those who can't see any pleasure in exploring all the outposts of civilization on dirty little steamers, where the food is vile, the bunks worse, and where you get a bath by stand-- ing out on the deck when it rains. "But when I remember all the little tracks that lead off into the unknown, and when 1 recall the exotic beauty of far away places where civilization has not brought its inevitable steam roller, and when I think of the absolute perfec-- tion of certain little islands where there had been no white men in five years except two Catholic priests, I know that I am one who will always shun palatial liners, and pick my own trail "And just as soon as we recover from this trip, and acquire a few hundred dollars apiece, Viola and I will go adventuring again We would like to join a wmq expedition to the Antarctic. There are some -- whaling boats that occasionally go there from Norway. A voyvage like that ought to hold some real ex-- Miss Schoen . . . stood her wailch . . . took her trick at the wheel . . . mended sails. .! ue " P