Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 6
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 10, 1902
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A TRIP AROUND
THE WORLD.
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Arranged For April Eighteenth
By Daughters of Confederacy.
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Points of Interest Will Be Visited.
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The Falls County Chapter of the U.D.C. on the 18th will entertain for the
benefit of the chapter in one of the most pleasure giving ways of the season, "A
Trip ARound the World." Mrs. O. C. Robeson's will represent Mexico, her
guests getting the benefit of her recent visit to the land of the Aztecs, with
all of their peculiar characteriscts (sp) of decorations, dress and modes of
living. From Mexico the tourist is next landed in our own national
capitol. Mrs. J. W. Bartlett and her receiving party of colonial dames,
and dames of the present up to Mrs. Roosevelt, which will be far more
interesting and instructive than some histories that are placed in the hands of
our children. From Washington you visit Japan, the of Mrs. Lea Allen.
There we meet the veritable little jap and his semi-divine Micadositting (sic)
in costumes, reclining on bamboo couches, clad in their bright colored robes,
eager to welcome each tired traveller with the cup that refreshes. Your
next destination is France, the republic which presents a more interesting field
for study than that of any other nation, because of its ever varying impulses,
its originality and its brilliancy. In Paris you visit the Con Mascha,
accompanied by Mrs. B. J. Linthicum, importer of all your Parisian gowns.
You will see Eifel (sic) Tower, and many other pieces of interest.
From France to Germany, where you visit
King Ludwig's castles, Music Art Galleries, down the Rhine to Cologne.
Weisbaden, a noted watering place, Frederic the Great's castle, Numberg, where
each man's business is advertised by a painted picture on the outside of his
house, of his wares. Heidleberg, the of the greatest of all universities.
Before you embark for Cuba, Mrs. Kyser will invite your attention to the
German's own coffee cake, and "stein" of something to drink. Your vessel
homeward bound will touch the Cuban shores. Mrs. J. C. Snead will be in
Castle de Arlington, ready to welcome you to the isle that our country "fought,
bled and died for," and that Wheeler was the hero of the land forces and Schley
of the navy.
The entire excursion trip will cost you 50
cents if you furnish your own vessel, 75 cents if you take any of the large
ocean steamers, furnished by the company.
The coupon tickets will be issued under
authority of the I. & G. N. Railway, under the special direction of the
Daughters of the Confederacy and the excursion will be personally conducttd
(sic) by members of that society. Those in charge of the excursions will
be:
To Mexico, Mrs. O. C. Robeson.
To Washington, Mrs. J. W. Bartlett
To Japan, Mrs. L. E. Allen.
To France, Mrs. B. J. Linthicum.
To Germany, Mrs. W. D. Kyser.
To Cuba, Mrs. Dr. J. C. Snead.
The tourist agents will be: H. F.
Spencer, Geo. Carter, Frank Burkhead, Geo. E. Sanders, T. A. Cheeves, A. Y.
Curtis, J. W. Harter and B. J. Linthicum.
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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas