The record-union., 1896-07-26


of the past few weeks, and with the re-
action comes a new fad which for some
time past has been popular in San
Francisco. and has now been adopted
by pleasure seekers in Sacramento, as
an agreeable means of employing those
lovely cool nights which have been ours
of late. The new fad sails under the
style of Trolley party and it signifies
its approach with the usual changing of
car bells and painted illumination over
the roof of one of the cars, chartered
for the OCCASION bearing the legend,
Trolley Party" A host or hostess in
vites a certain limited number Of
friends, and after taking them for a
trolley ride over all the different car
lires in the city, lunches and enter
tains them in any manner which sug-
gests itself to her fancy at some park
or resort suitable for the purpose, after
which they are all taken home again
or the trolley cars. Mrs. Rob Hawley
gave the first of these novel entertain
ments in Sacramento, which proved to be
so successful and enjoyable an affair
that others have speedily taken it up,
and it now bids fair to be the prevail
ing craze for a time. Mrs. George
Grove gave a trolley party on Friday,
the 18th inst, and since then two others
have been given. Anything so novel
in the way of an innovation is sure to
be popular, and the twin cars surmount-
ed by their Illuminated title are likely to
appear upon our streets at any time in
the evening from this on
Miss Millie Wilcox, with Mrs. DR..
Parkinson and son Fentop, lately
took trip to Florin and back on their
wheels. Mrs. Robert Hawley and Miss
Nellie Siddons have also joined the
ranks of cyclists, which have already
assumed large proportions In our town.
While some of our towspeople are
returning from their summer rustica-
ting, others are just departing. Mrs.
Cy Hubbard, wife of our worthy Mayor,
her mother, Mrs. Cushman, and two
young daughters Muriel and Hazel, with
Mrs Alex Morrison, who has been their
guest, have returned from a sixweeks'
outing at the Hubbard farm near Castle
Crag. They report a splendid time. inn
proved health and no end of enjoyment
as a result of their trip.
Mrs. Sophie Jones contemplates a
three months visit to friends and rela-
tives in Oakland and vicinity, and Mrs.
May Hembree-Jones departed on the
morning of the 18th for Santa Cruz with
a party of friends, where she will spend
about a month, enjoying the sports Old
Neptune furnishes for his adherents
during the summer months
Sigmund Beel, the Violinist, and Willis
Bachelor, the favorite tenor, who sung
to us in concert not long since, both of
Oakland. are spending their vacation at
Lake Tahoe, enjoying mountain air and
the divers sport to be found in and
about the lake.
Horace Crocker, hear. has gone out
of the bicycle business. and is now CIV
ing his undivided (?) attention to his
trade like any ordinary mortal. After
ALI. il is rather unsafe than otherwise
TO deal too largely in wheels, don't you
know2
Andrew Younger and wife, who have
been enjoying a, protracted visit to their
son. T. W. Younger, of Portland, Or,
have returned to their home in Sacra-
mento. Mr. Younger, who was just re-
covering from serious illness, Is much
improved by the change of climate and
scene.
II sometimes happens in this queer
world of still more queer cross-purposes
that a. mans capabilities for action In
the most problematic instances are
sealed ND within a weak feminine en-
velope Sometimes the woman so en-
dowed rises to the occasion, casts her
womanly weakness to the winds, and
cultivates the qualities which she pos
sesses in a manner which will make
them of the most use to herself and the
world. The case of Mrs. Lee Willard
Hin is 2. fair example of masculine de-
termination and force of character pos
sessed by one of our sex, which is
scarcely exceeded by the spirit and en-
ergy exhibited on similar occasions by
our brothers of the stronger sex. 1t
DESTROYS the poetical idea of woman
as a "clinging yine," but fair exchange
is no robbery" and / think you Will
agree that 1T is a benefit rather than a
detriment- Mrs. Hill is second cousin
of General Fitz Hugh Lee, our Consul
General at Havana, and is a trained
nurse and a graduate of the New York
Nurses Training School She is one of
the most recent and picturesque vol
unteers in the cause of Cuba libre, and
has offered her services to the Junta and
they have accepted. When the next I'LL
ibustering expedition sails for Cuba