The record-union., 1896-07-26


| Mrs. Hill will be member of it. She
will go prepared for active service on
| the battlefield, and will carry equip
ments for a field and ambulance corps,
including a hospital tent, surgical in
| struments and medicine. Mrs Hill,
while waiting for chance to sail for
Cuba, has been in charge of the sanitary
| corps at the great Cuban fair in New
| York She wore there the costume
| which she means to use in Cuba. She
| has discarded skirts and has adopted a
neat suit of dark canvas bloomers, mil
itary fatigue jacket. with a broad
brimmed slouch hat, and leggings over
stout, heavy-soled shoes. In addition
| to a nurses outfit, she will carry a
blanket and a knapsack ON her shapely
shoulders. Mrs. Hill is a widow, al
though still under %. She is a very
comely young woman, with big, blue
eyes, a good figure and golden brown
hair. Her mother who is enthusiastic
over the project, knows all about bat
tlefields, for she carried dispatches for
General Beauregard during the rebel
lion. Mrs. Hill, too, has roughed it on the
plains and knows something about the
hardships of camp life. She will be ac-
companied by Charles Schlein, a hos
pital orderly, who will act as her per-
sonal guard and do all sorts Of neces-
sary work. Il know that it is to be no
pleasure excursion" says Mrs. Hill,
but a period of work and danger. I
expect to suffer hunger exposure and
- i r. Ia
the hardships of war, but that is what
l am going for. If l can aid the strug
Cling Cubans to obtain their liberty, the
little that can do will be done cheer
fully"
A letter from the southern part of the
State suggests that Old Sol seems to
have the Mikado idea Of making 1.-The
punishment fit the crime" and is
"scorching the scorchers." Lady riders
also are discovering the god of day to
be rather an uncomfOrtably warm friend
lately, who is making ii lively for heads
and pedal extremities. Caters and leg
gings are being abandoned during the
scorching season for sandals and natu-
raj uppers by gentlemen riders, but
whether the fair sex will bring them
selves to go that far remains to be seem
Speaking of scorching, have you seen
Walter Leitch describe an angle Of 40
degrees on the bicycle race track at the
New Pavilion? 1t reminds one of a fly
on the side of the wall. How do you
manage it, Walt?
Miss Julie Opp, who made her debut
this winter under Calves auspices as a
recitationist of poems set to music, Is
TO go to London soon for a course of
study. She is said to be a handsome
girl who is peculiarly fitted for the
stage. Miss Opp has also done some
journalistic work.
Going down NJ street in a car the
other day / was suddenly brought to a
consciousness that something unusual
was taking place. Women were craning
their necks to look out of the windows,
some of them at the risk of immediate
dislocation. A lean man in the corner
wiped his sallow face with a large bill
iOus- -colored handkerchief and grinned
with a complaisance that forcibly re-
minded me of the words of the Pharisee
when he lifted up his voice in the tenn
pie and cried, 80, Lord, 1 thank Thee
that / am not as other men" Children
climbed over the seats, over their NAM
mas and each other in their frantic en-
deavors to get peep, pointing fingers
and thumbs in a direction which l was
not slow in following with my eyes at
the first opportunity, and what do you
suppose was the cause of all the excite
ment? Nothing more nor less than a
certain well-known and well-looking
lawyer of popular favor taking his
evening ''redUcer'' on his wheel You
| see (you would have seen had you been
there the amount of avoirdupois con-
trasted to the square inch of wheel was
SO glaringly apparent that one was re-
minded of one of Palmer Cox's brown
les, and it was not until he was quite
out of sight that the car regained it's
equilibrium and settled itself down to
ordinary happenings once more
American women are borrowing the
English fashion Of having their wheels
painted to match their gowns. Several
swell New York girls have had their
| monograias engraved on the handle
bars of their wheels Two or three have
crest or c0at-of-arms
rev ard popular diversion among
women IS the game of poker A dozen or
more guests are hidden for an evening.
ard play to the sound of hidden mando-
| Inns ard zitters. When the game is
| finished supper is served.
The trolley party gotten up by Ed.
! Barber FOR Tue-day night last had "lots
| Of fun" After taking In the whole street
| car system. they went to Oak Park for
| ice cream and cake then to East Park
| for a toboggan slide 1t was pro-
nounced ar immense success by every
one n attendance. The party was
chaperoned by Mesdames Quigley and
Dodge.
A curio in the shape of a proposal for
| the hand of an Egyptian Princess made
over :. 800 years ago has been discovered
| in the British Museum. 1t is in the form
| OF an inscribed brick and is not only the
| Oldest, but the most substantial love
| letter in existence. Imagine If you can
| the love-lorn swain of to-day with
| whom the custom of carrying the letters
| of a lady love in the left breast pocket
directly over the heart finds such favor
and fancy the predicament he would be
| in If the billet doux of our time bore re-
semblance In size and weight to those
| received ages ago by the dusky daugh-
] tiers of Pharoah!