Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 July 1898 — Page 2

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CONVENT HOSPITAL

A MOTHER SUPERIOR'S GENEROUS OFFER TO THE GOVERNMENT.

How the Sick and Wounded Will Be Attended to at Key West—Roentgen K»j Will Be Used as Never Before In I®eating Ballets. '"^Vr

[Copyright, 1838, American Press Asso-

It is very fortunate that the government of this country has been provided With a hospital BO near the seat of war as that now established at Key West. Arrangements were recently completed lor taking care of the 4ret large consignment of sick and wounded that may be taken there. The hospital is under the charge of Dr. W. R. Hall, a United States army surgeon, and he has a corps of experienced assistants to aid him in his work. That the government is provided now with such superior hospital facilities at Key West is due to the patriotism and humane sympathies of Sister Mary Florentine, mother superior of the Convent of Mary Immaculate, at that place.

When war was declared against Spain, it became evident that an addi-

8ISTKK MARY FLORENTINE, MOTHER SUPERIOR OF MARY IMMACULATE, KEY WEST. tional hospital would be needed at Key West, it being so near the seat of war. The difficulty was at once removed by the mother superior and sisters of the oonvent mentioned offering freely and without solicitation or ostentation their home to tho government to be used as a hospital. It is needless to say that in making this offer the sisters of the oonvent made a great sacrifice. The act involved tho closing of their schools and the dismissal of their pupils. They, however, patriotically regarded the temporary interruption of the education of tho young as of less importance than the oaro of the men who had been wounded or contracted disease while employed in tho service of their country. The proposition of tho sisters was first nuule to the navy, but the department was not quite ready at the time to consider it. Subsequently they made tho sarao offer to the war department, and it was accepted.

Immediately afterward Dr. Hall left Washington, and, proceeding to Key West, began tho transformation of the convent, into a hospital. Tho ground floor, formerly used as classrooms for young children, was turned into an immenso ward, and three wido doorways, all now open, make it practically one room. Long rows of comfortable cots aro ranged against each side, leaving ample space for both patients and nurses. On tho floor above, reached by a broad staircase from the grounds, are the dispensary and the office of tho surgeon in chief. Tho music hall, a circular room with abundance of light and air, has been set apart as award for wounded officers. One of tho classrooms has been taken as tho office of thfe assistant surgeon, and nest to it is the operating room, fitted up with all the latest appliances used in modern surgery.

Tho dormitories, a flight farther up, have been stripped of their bedsteads and furnished with hospital cots, and the small buildings, about 200feet from the main structure, formerly occupied as schoolrooms for whito and colored children, have been turned into wards. They are capable of accommodating from 20 to 30 patients each. To provide for au overflow, in the event of some great disaster to our arms, hospital tents have been erected amid tho palms.

The building has a capacity for the reeeptiou of about 400 patients without overcrowding. Dr. Hall's staff consists of Dr. W. C. Borden, assistant surgeon Dr. S. T. Armstrong, acting assistant surgeon Dr. Barnard E. Baker, acting assistant surgeon, and H. P. Jackson, also actiug assistant surgeon. Four trained nurses arrived recently from the north and at once began instructing the 2? sisters of the convent in regard to their duty in attending upon the sick and wounded. With the surgeons, nurses and the necessary attendants, the force under the control of the surgeon in chief will be close upon 100. Cooking ranges, oil and gas stoves hare been put iu and a competent corps of oooks engaged to prepare the food.

It is noteworthy tiiat four of the trained nurses will serve for merely nominal salary—less than one-quarter of what they would rective when employed as private nurses. There is no Soubting the patriotism of tb«* young women who traveled 3,000 miles from their homes to assume arduous and dan-

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gerous duties in the service of their I ABOUT WAK ALBUMS. country. It is scarcely necessary to state that the hospital accommodation furnished by the transformed convent is not all the government requires or commands at Key West. In addition to the necessary present requirements the authorities had to provide for future contingencies. They have been indefatigable in their endeavors to provide against a large possible increase of the sick and wounded, and already, brief as the time has been since this work began, their arrangements are well nigh complete, even to minutest details.

Dr. Paul Glendenin, who was in charge of the military post hospital at Key West, was recently transferred from there to join the staff of General Fitz-Hugh Lee, and will in all probability accompany him to Porto Bico. Dr. Glendenin is considered one of the most progressive and promising young physicians in th» service, and will doubtless prove just as efficient in his new position to what he was in the one he vacated. He has been* succeeded in the military post hospital by Dr. Henry A. Shaw, who has an equally good reputation as a capable surgeon and physician.

In all the hospitals at Key West the Roentgen rays will be used extensively in locating missiles which may be buried in bone or tissue. It will be the first occasion upon whioh this wonderful discovery shall have been extensively used, and it is not too mu«h to expect surprising results in consequence.

In other respects, as well as contiguity to the active scene of war, Key West is eminently suited as a location for hospitals. The temperature of the place is equable, the winters are as mild as in the Bahamas and the summers cooler on an average than in New York.

Mrs. Colby has achieved distinction not only as an editor, but as a leoturer on civics, literature, dress and woman suffrage. She was professor at one time of Latin and history in the University of Wisconsin, and she has studied law and recently founded a public library at Beatrice, Neb. She is vice president for Nebraska of the National American Woman Suffrage association and state president of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage association.

The Woman's Tribune was first published in Nebraska, but moved to Wash-

MRS. CLARA BKXCK COLBY.

ington when General Colby became assistant attorney general. During the international congress of women at the

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cii some brave lad now fighting in the At the first appearance of symptoms American army or navy is anxiously

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of yellow fever the patients will be re moved to a specially constructed hospital on one of the keys, known as Boca Chica, seven miles from Key West and sufficiently far removed from that town to prevent all danger of the spread of the infection thither. Since the opening of the hospital Dr. Hall, who has general supervision of all the government hospitals at Key West and vicinity, has been supplied with a more complete surgical outfit, including a Roentgen ray apparatus, which is expected to gCii iaj "U4VU

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NEIL MACDONALD.

SHE'S AT THE FRONT.

Mrs. Colby the Only Woman War Correspondent In Cuba.

In many departments of warlike ac^ tivity women have reoently oome to the front, but probably the only woman war correspondent is Mrs. Olara Benck Oolby. She has a regular pass, issued by the war department, and is at present in Cuba.

Mrs. Colby is founder, editor and proprietor of The Woman's Tribune, published in Washington, and it is in the interest of her paper that she goes to the front, accompanying her husband, who is a brigadier general.

SpS City Mri Colby's paper, which Should the warrior afctJ* feat pom.

is a fortnightly, was published daily as a 16 page sheet, being the only paper published by a woman to give full reports of a woman's congress.

Mrs. Colby is of English birth and is related on her father's side to the naturalist and wood engraver, Thomas Bewick, and on her mother's side to General Monk, who helped restore Charles II to the throne. She has a son, now a bugler in Colonel Grigsby's regiment, and a little adopted daughter, an In dian girl named Zintka Lanuni. General Colby found the child in the arms of its dead mother, the latter having been •hot on the battlefield of Wounded Knee. On the cap of the child, when found, was worked the United States flag.

TEBBE HAUTE SATURDAY ETEISiyG MAIL, JULY 30, 1898.

HOW TO WAKE AN INTERESTING AND VALUABLE SOUVENIR.

Ton Will Wish Yon Had Begun One When Ton See Some That Are Under Way—A New York Girl's Plan For Recording the

Deeds of Her Soldier Lover.

'Copyright, 1898, by American Press Association.] Every woman who is the mother, wife, sister, sweetheart or cousin of

an in he pa a or so news of her loved one and trying to do

be particularly useful in cases of bullet newspapers every day all mention of it wounds. The marine hospital, in immediate charge of Dr. Gregorio Guiteras, is not less well provided with accommodation for patients and surgical and other appliances. While Dr. Guiteras expects that his services and those of his assistants will be principally required in attending to the wounded, he is also prepared to treat a certain number of purely medical cases. The majority of those, however, will be consigned to Dr. Hall and his corps of nurses and assistants at the convent hospital.

something to help him. A bright young woman living in New York, whose lover is an officer in the Seventy-first regiment, has evolved a unique plan by means of which she can keep track of the doings of her sweetheart, or at least of those of his regiment.

When his regiment was first called out, she determined to cut from the

and especially of his company and himself should he so distinguish himself as to have his actions recorded in the papers. •.

For a time she kept these clippings in a large manilla envelope, but after, awhile they became so numerous that she found it necessary to try some better plan. At last she hit upon a method. She bought a large sorapbook and pasted the clippings in it according to their dates. First she had clippings telling of the encampment at Camp Black. Interspersed with these were pictures of the camp, showing his tent and himself and other interesting features, which she had taken with her camera. Then came clippings of the march to the transport which conveyed them to Tampa and a snapshot of the boys boarding the steamer.

The story of the two days' enforced fast which the regiment was obliged to undergo at this point came next, and the page is blurred with tears which she shed at thought of the hardships undergone by her lover and his brave companions. Here and there is inserted a letter which she has received from him, giving vivid accounts of his life and doings and other matters not so interesting to any but these two. He also sent her views of places when he could get them and of the vessel, all of which are religiously inserted in their proper places.

Then comes an account of the voyage to Cuba, the landing at Baiquiri and that dreadful charge up the hill of San

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COVER OF THE WAR ALBUM.

Juan behind the famous rough ridera The story of the terrible baptism of fire of the Seventy-first before Santiago follows, and then accounts of the less exciting but safer work of making roads to which the regiment was put. The poor girl, wrought up though she had been by the terrible news of the previous days, could hardly imagine her spick and span, well dressed lover engaged in the task of road building.

In the front part of the book are pasted maps of Cuba and the region surrounding Santiago, and marked on them is the route followed by the regiment as closely as she could make it out from the descriptions in the reports.

Besides being a very interesting retford of current events in a circumscribed form, this souvenir album is very artistically got up, for the young woman, being something of an artist, substituted for original covers of the book others drawn by herself on stout cardboard covered with cloth.

These souvenir albums or scrapbooks may very easily be made by any one, and not only are they most interesting to their owners, but will be highly valued when handed down to future generations as family heirlooms and indisputable records of the valor of heroic ancestors. 'The design§' to ornament the covers may be either painted or embroidered. The most serviceable color is dark blue linen or butcher's cloth. The embroidery should be in wash silk or linen thread. On the covers American flags, shields, eagles, regimental colors, cannon, tents or other appropriate patterns can be worked, according to the wishes or ingenuity of the owner.

Many other interesting schemes and ideas can easily be thought of and employed by any one who takes up the idea of making such a souvenir book.

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small camera he could send home a set of pictures illustrating the scenes and incidents of the campaign that would be of the greatest interest. Specimens of the wild flowers of the region and many other things would be valuable in after years as mementos of this history making epoch.

The wives of many of the high officers in the two services are making just such scrapbooks. The wife and daughters of Admiral Sampson have a most complete collection of clippings referring to their distinguished relative and take especial delight in cutting out and pasting in their books any verses and cartoons published in reference to him.

ELIZABETH LYOB.

DECREES OF FASHION.

lovely Woman May Look as if Sawed Oat of Wood. [Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, July 25.—Lovely woman will look as if she was sawed out of wood, like Mrs. Noah in the ark of our childhood days. Her shoulders will appear to be measured with a level and plumb line and the rest of her as though built over laths. The wonder of it all is how the tailors have achieved it with nothing firmer than cloth. Buckram facings and linings and skillful pressing bring this about, added to the tailor stitcning. The new jackets fit in the back like the proverbial paper on $he wall and are graceful, while in front they are most uncompromisingly stiff, and smooth. Strap seams and strap ap-

FALL JACKETS.

plique pieces form the trimming. No buttons are seen and no fancy garniture ,of any sort. The lapels are small and the collars flat. Some are faced with white or some other color. The sleeves are coat shape with the upper parts, as I said, made upon the square. Tucks one would scarcely expect to see on a cloth jacket, yet very many of them have the upper portion of the sleeves laid in round and round tucks in different widths. A few of the jackets have the fronts also laid with crosswise tucks. It must require a pressure of half a ton of hot iron to make these lie so flat.

These are the cloth jackets, and are mostly in mode, drab and tan cloths, though there are greens, dark browns and blacks. They are lined with all sorts of silk, according to fancy and quality. J/,/-,

A real "novelty is a new fall lohg coat. It is cut clo3e fitting in the back, but with plenty of flare. Down the front and around the bottom is apiece forming a Dewey flounce at the bottom and panel front. The line of demarcation is shown by a heavy cord, and around the edge is a very thiok cord in blacic and white, leaded by one row of narrow soutache. There is a very stiff triple shoulder cape trimmed in the same way. The coat has no darts in front and oloses invisibly to the left side. This design was made in the model of fine broadcloth in tanpeline, or ground mole color, and lined with silk of a good quality, but others were of tfiSHeversibltf cloth, which has a plain surface with a plaid back. The capes show the plaid undersurface, and the Dewey flounce is loose in front, so that as it blows open the plaid shows. The new blue shades are very handsome for the plain ones. Cadet brown, green, castor, gray and black are all seen among the colors on these coats. One or two had very narrow, thick satin ribbon frills instead of the cord. The jackets are from 20 to 24 inches long, but the coats are as long as the dress.

Separate skirts and waists are not to be left aside for at least one more season. The colors in the skirts are navy, gray, green, black and browns. Black goods are so rich and beautiful this year that more skirts are made of black than all the other fcolors put together. The crepons are making headway, but no woman who sees one of the superb Irish poplins or the repped or navy oorded silk and wool goods looks a second time at the crepon, however handsome it may be. The skirts are made of satin, moire, silk, in grosgrain and corded effects, and also faille, taffeta, Irish poplin, broadcloth, cheviots, prunella, eudora, serge and a dozen other weaves. The waists are of taffeta, silk and satin duchesse. This last is the most useful and has the greatest all round value of all the silken fabrics. The preference is for solid colors in silks for separate waists. All the blues, including lavender and violet. all the browns, green, cream and red aro seen in the new silk separate waists. All of them have some sort of an epaulet.

I think the popular fancy will be for plain material, rich and firm, though there are mixtures, figures, plaids and colored stripes, yet pl^in goods will prevail. But what puzzles me is that in one great importing house they will tell you positively that all fall and winter goods will be thinner and lighter in texture than before, and in the next place they will declare equally "sure to come true" that all winter gcods will be exceptionally thick, rich and firm. You find both kinds, and, after all, it is the women themselves who will decide.^iftfy own advice is that where one can get a rich plain surfaced gown or cloak it is true economy to get it, for its lasting qualities make it doubly valuable. iasV:* ,%

There is a goodly quantify or magpie and jackdaw stripes in all classes of goods, and the idea is carried out in feathers and other feminine adornment, though not to the exclusion of the military devices. They rage worse than ever.

Skirts are to be longer and spread out rather more around the feet. Some of the Dewey flounces are slashed, and fans made of plaited plaids are set in. Some have velvet insets and some silk ones. Others are of silk covered with lace. The lace set on or applied flounce is considered a very desirable thing, but unfortunately unattainable for many.

OLIVE HABPXB.

Securing a Lunatic.

In one of the most fashionable districts of Paris a mock marriage was recently planned for the purpose of securing a rather dangerous lunatio. An attractive young person named Mile. Delaplume was sitting in her boudoir the other day in a house situated in a street off the Boulevard St. Germain. Suddenly a ring came to the door, and one of her servants, having opened it, ushered in a well dressed man looking like a superior sort of valet. He told Mile. Delaplume that he had a letter from one of her friends, a countess, and as the young woman put her hand out to receive the missive the stranger seized her fingers, pressed them to his lips, and then, sinking on his knees, made a passionate declaration of love and offered to marry her.

Mile. Delaplume saw by the man's eyes that he was dangerously mad, and, fearful of a tragedy, she accepted his offer with apparent calmness. Then she invited the strange visitor to the mayor's office in order to have the nuptial knot tied. The man accompanied her with alacrity to the establishment in question, where a secretary informed of the real state of affairs, pretended to read the civil marriage regulations. The mock bridegroom was then taken by a detective to the police depot under the delusion that he was bound for a pastry cook's, there to give an order for a sumptuous wedding breakfast. The man was, it appears, formerly employed as a valet by one of Mile. Delaplume's friends.—Paris Letter.

Corrected In Rhyme.

Thackeray was much pestered by the autograph hunter, says Hodder in his "Recollections." He disliked above all things to write in an autograph album, and often refused those who asked him to do so and sometimes rather brusquely.

On one occasion the owner of an album, a young lady, was fortunate. Thackeray took her book to bis room in order to look it over. Written on a page he found these lines:

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountninBThev crowned him long ago, But who they got to put it on

NoDody soems to know. ALBERT SMTTH. Under these lines Mr. Thackeray wrote:

A HUMBLE SUGGESTION. I know that Albert wrote in hurry— To criticise I scarce presume, But yet methinks that Lindley Murray

Instead of "who" had written "whom." W. M. THACKERAY.

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O'Grady looked at Pat, who wasn't built on the lines of a prize beauty. "Och, well, what's the harrum so long as the child's healthy?"—New York World.

Culinary Information.

Mistress—Do you call this sponge cake? Why, it's as hard as it can be. New Cook—Yes, mum, that's the way a sponge is before it's wet. Soak it in your tea, mum.—Town and Country Journal.

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It Was Scroful

Medicines Drove the Humor tJ His Eyes

Hood's Sarsaparilla Eradicated tt ^Disease from His System.^* Eruptions appeared on my little boy's shoulder and face. The effect of the medicines prescribed for him was to drive the] humor from his face and shoulder to eyes, which became badly inflamed. THE more medicine he took the more the hu-' mor spread. We read BO much of what Hood's Sarsaparilla had done for others we decided to try it. He began taking it and we persevered in its use and after a while the eruptions began to disappear, and finally the flesh was all healed over. From that time there has been no return of the scrofula." MBS. CYRUS DOUB, Silver Lake, Indiana.

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REDUCTION IN PRICES. A N I S E

Begs leave to remind his friends and patrons that he was tho first undertaker to reduce the prices of

FUNERAL GOODS.

He having lately opened up a now establishment at 103 North Fourth street (two doors north of Cherry) with an entirely new and finely selected stock, now ofrors a fine full sized black cloth casket In chestnut at from $30 upward, a plain imitation rosewood burial case from $12 up, and all other goods In proportion, and trusting that by paying the strictest attention to tho wants of ills patrons he may merit a sharo of their patronage. Telephone 1153.

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