Seaweed.—The duties of a stewardess are to wait on the lady passengers, help to dress them, and bring them the basin or their food if too ill to rise from their berths. The salary seems to vary with different lines of steamers.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Eveline would be botanically more correct if she called the beautiful English plant “sundew.” It is of the same order as the foreign “Venus’s fly-trap,” and also attracts and kills small flies.
[Transcriber’s Note—the following changes have been made to this text.
Page 247: out to our—“turned our faces”.
Page 250: flytrap to fly-trap—“specimen of the fly-trap”.]