Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
the 180th Meridian, and we got up Wednesday mrning and went to bed
Thursday night. Thursday, Jme twelfth, 1919; &rmival continued.
I was in a hen fiat and. cam out first. " (lawter) ''The cock fiat was
a very flumy feature consisting of a contest on a mat between two mn with
long wooden rods, the size of baseball bats between chaim, lolees and
thi&s. I don't get that.
Q. bhat's a hen fi@t?
A. I don't know, I've fo~gotten. "They held onto these with their hands
and were ruled out if they let loose. The garre consisted in shoving the
opponent off the rrat with the feet and body. Mr. OIReilly won, defeating
in turn a Jap and a Swede. Fi-iday, the thirteenth; How we spoke of this
Fn the BLble Class a few mnths ago in Springfield at the YWCA, was that
they were telling, well, illustrating somthing that was wpresenting sowthing
that you weren't. Well, on this boat going over we had a party when
we all dressed up in sore costunr;; we jwt had to nake, yQu bow, do. And
one fellow was dressed up with a sheet and he had fixed up papers and things
that would make him look like a tombstone. We said, 'Well, what does that
represent?" And he turned aromd and said it representedt the lost day at
sea of the so-and-so mridian.
Q. When you were crossing, the dateline?
A. Yes.
Q. That's cute.
A. So,l:I told that and the Bible Class got quite a lot o enjoymnt out
of it.
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Q. kt!s see. Wetre up to June, is it? ! 1
A. It's FMday, the thirteenth that wetre up to.
Q. What happened on Friday the thirteenth?
A. Well; "prizes were awarded by Captaln Ogasaki. t prize turned
out to be a strhg of beads which were seeds of the
I finished readkigthe Fom Horsernen by I. Banez, an
today j wing in the water.'-w, me the fourtee
morning planning the itinerary for our &wit in Japan. We
six days there, but of course, we do dot know that
reality. We land at Yokohoma. I hope to go to Koma
to spend a ni&t. Early on Thursday
miday. Leave Tokyo Friday noon for . . . e m . "From
which the view of Mt. Fuji is gorgeous.
ing there Tuesday morning for our sailin
3-1 the afternoon of June fourteenth, the ocean began to
p.m. I was dreadfully seasick. If I ha
on deck I should probably have fared
6:00 p.m. remaining there mti3. the t
library in my clothes all fight; as I could not endure the
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stuffy quarters
of the cabin with portholes clbsed to keep out the water. I pedtkd
several of the nurses to sleeplin the library because the r cabins were SO