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Show y . TO BALL IN BABY CARRIAGE Former American Girl Adds Much - Gaiety to a British Dance in Cairo. Paris. A young American matron, with the high-sounding English title of the Hon. Mrs. Hugh Ronald French, has covered herself with glory at the the annual military ball given by the English garrison at Cairo. Before her marriage she was Miss Ida Wynne a daughter of former Postmaster General Wynne, who latei was the American consul general in London. Though her maiden name was plain, her face is her fortune, and the prettiest one seen in Egypt for many moons. Mrs. French is clever and original as well as beautiful. She mm wl u Yy . Aa go ml e fccci created a great sensation in Cairo by engaging a stately, handsome and richly rich-ly garbed Arab to wheel her through the streets in a perambulator and right into the middle or the ballroom. As it was a masquerade ball, Mrs. French was drrrsed as a baby. When recognized finally by her husband and his fellow officers cheers loud and long went up for the American beauty The baby c'.othes in which the Hon. .Mrs. Hugh was attired all came from the Rue de la Paix. Paris, where they were on exhibition before being sent to Cairo. The Hon. Mrs. Hugh 'was pronounced indisputably the belle of this ball. Her husband is a cousin of Genera! Sir John French, cute of the bravest officers the English had in South Africa Af-rica fighting against the Roers. The Hon. Mrs. Hugh's ' husband has now-been now-been ordered to go to India, whither slit, of course, will accompany him. |
