Puget Sound Weekly Argus

Carnegie's Care for Seasickness.

"Nobody need be seasick," explained Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire, "if he takes precautions and possesses a moderate degree of good health. This malady is often a bugaboo which people assume. The best medical authorities contend that malady is an affection of the brain and spinal marrow rather than the stomach, and is, after all, only the effort of the brain to accustom itself to the motion of the ship and the sound of machinery. It follows that will power is a large factor in warding off the dreaded illness. Make up your mind to be well, and after you are under way take a small powder of bromide of soda, which your chemist will prepare in proper doses, put it in half a glass of water and renew the dose whenever you feel the slightest symptoms of nausea. Your effervescent salts before breakfast will do the rest of the preventative cure.

"In any case, keep on deck as much as possible, dress too warmly rather than too coolly and walk the deck an hour or two daily, rain or shine. Avoid overeating the rich food with which ocean steamers are invariably stocked. There is no occasion to change your mode of life as to diet, because you are on the water, unless you have been extravagant; then let it be less so. Eat regularly and aim to ingratiate yourself with your fellow passengers at table. You are all at the mercy of the treacherous waves. Surely, then, haughtiness or surliness is absurd; in fact, I would recommend three arbitrary ingredients for securing good moral, mental, physical and social results, and these are good nature, will power and bromide of soda."—New York Letter.