3-070-590 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Off For A Holiday, 1883. '"Off for a Holiday," to many a hard-working citizen, in these days of summer verging upon autumn, signifies a welcome, a salutary, often a needful change of scene...[ the scene] of one of this week's Illustrations...is on board a steam-boat in a calm summer sea, in such weather, and in such conditions of wind and wave, that not even the least accustomed stomach of a sedentary landsman feels any qualm of apprehended disturbance from the vessel's uniform motion. It is pleasant, indeed, when the gentle stir of fresh air serves but to cool the blood, and to brace the nerves, after the feverish excitement and following languor of town life. Sea air disposes the whole frame to enjoy the pure physical delights of its new position, the sunshine above and around, as well as the pure atmosphere...we heartily wish that the amiable reader who is encouraged, possibly, by our Illustration to commit his holiday fortunes to a short maritime trip, may suffer no revulsion of inward experiences on his outward or homeward passage'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.