| Show some of the drawbacks to high toned masquerades new york is distinguished every season for its monster masquerades and fancy balls in apte of gas music flowers and gay costumes these gatherings if we are to believe the reports 1 of many who assist at them are at once dreary and disgusting the multitudes of mock kings knights duchesses es Pick wicks cardinals indians clowns columbines panta sailors and what not who meet upon a common level upon these occasions are nothing more than promenading and gyrating dummies dum nies the world maybe a stage but these ladies and gentlemen show very clearly that all the men and women are not players not one in five hundred of them having alie slightest idea of personating the character whose outer husk he or she assumes these monster balls are said to be principally remarkable for three impossibilities ties viz the impossibility of dancing on account of the crowd the impossibility of getting any refreshments without fighting for them and the impossibility of obtaining access to the dressing rooms force of arms fifteen dollars for a ticket and a hundred dollars for a costume may not be too much to pay for six hours discomfort but by riding in the city railroad or elevated for the same length of time you can get shoved jammed and hustled about almost as thoroughly for much aless money and you pay any thing atra for costume either N Y ledger |
