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Oregon (Oregon, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
had subsisted for several days upon a similar supply, which no one else had happened to remember. She was the very coolest person, he said, with whom I ever made a voyage. It is pleasant to see that the reports of passengers on the ill fated Oregon agree in the statement that the women on board behaved well. An elderly gentleman, after describing the passengers as rushing on deck half clothed and half awaked, says that the ladies behaved splendidly, considering the circumstances. Mr. M. J nothing; the mere order to march or shoot is an immense relief to the nervous tension. Then as to the certainty of being taken care of, that is the very thing that never looks quite sure to the person most concerned, especially where, as on the Oregon, women see the firemen taking possession of boats and running away with them before their eyes. Still, it is fair to remember that a good deal of the apparent excitement and confusion among men in a shipwreck, as at a fire, comes from the fact t
M. J. Emerson (search for this): chapter 28
on agree in the statement that the women on board behaved well. An elderly gentleman, after describing the passengers as rushing on deck half clothed and half awaked, says that the ladies behaved splendidly, considering the circumstances. Mr. M. J. Emerson says that most of the men were very much excited; the ladies, however, were very cool and self-possessed. Mrs. Emerson spoke of the coolness of the ladies, saying that it was very noticeable. Whatever you say about it, said Mr. S. Newton Mrs. Emerson spoke of the coolness of the ladies, saying that it was very noticeable. Whatever you say about it, said Mr. S. Newton Beach, a London merchant, say this: that the coolest persons on board were the ladies, as they always are when the case is not one of a mouse, but one of real danger. What is the secret of this curious variableness of emotion, this undisguised terror of the little, this courage before that which is great? It may be said that women are cool in shipwreck because they are merely passive, or because they expect to be taken care of. But all military experience shows that the passive condition is
Howells (search for this): chapter 28
is story of a very celebrated English general. The military hero was once dining with Mr. S-- , when a stray mouse was seen running to and fro, looking for a hiding-place. With one spring the general was on his chair; with another, on the table. Amid much laughter the host rose and proceeded in the direction of the mouse. Oh! Stop, S- , shouted the man of war; for Heaven's sake don't exasperate him! The exasperated mouse and the intimidated beholders are still on duty, it seems, in Mr. Howells's good-natured farce, The mouse-trap; but the lions are the painters, and the sex is conveniently changed. Every woman who comes into the room in his little drama takes more or less gracefully to chair or table, when the mouse is announced; and even the Irish domestic follows them, though I have generally found Bridget ready to enforce home rule vigorously on such intruders by the aid of a pair of tongs. The only person in the tale who is not frightened is a man, and he is not severely
S. Newton Beach (search for this): chapter 28
Oregon agree in the statement that the women on board behaved well. An elderly gentleman, after describing the passengers as rushing on deck half clothed and half awaked, says that the ladies behaved splendidly, considering the circumstances. Mr. M. J. Emerson says that most of the men were very much excited; the ladies, however, were very cool and self-possessed. Mrs. Emerson spoke of the coolness of the ladies, saying that it was very noticeable. Whatever you say about it, said Mr. S. Newton Beach, a London merchant, say this: that the coolest persons on board were the ladies, as they always are when the case is not one of a mouse, but one of real danger. What is the secret of this curious variableness of emotion, this undisguised terror of the little, this courage before that which is great? It may be said that women are cool in shipwreck because they are merely passive, or because they expect to be taken care of. But all military experience shows that the passive conditi