| Show 1HB BiLL II I IAn I-An Event of Pleasure That Was i Well it has passed the grand Thanksgiving ball There is but one verdiotthe success of the season It could not have been otherwise the personnel per-sonnel of the committee remembered Whatever it may havn lacked of being a financial sucttss though it certainly was no fttiluje vas more than compensated com-pensated for in the unclouded enjoyment enjoy-ment which tue hours of tne duce afforded By 9 oc oct the floor was a spectacle that would httVs roobed otn naughty tiolis or a slghOr glories lost etc il lie weie au ancient bachelor The costumes of tha radiea were among the most dii > htfu it baa been ihi good fortune of tuus who admire the ball dress to gaze upon Jhj J styles wero varied mere was a pleasing absence of sarnetess and to oie who does not know a hook or an eye from a bodIce it was a mutter of protracted astonishment astonish-ment that there Guuld exist in the human Hu-man mind wnether 01 male or female ingenuity enough to devise so many patterns for drsses Nor were the men those alone to admire the lair stars of the evening for they were cia strained to admire each other But then the poor fellow wno writes this is no more fitted to expatiate on so delicate deli-cate a subject than to describe the IL tricacies ot design anu thu texture or patterns that constituted the varied apparel ap-parel of those whose presence ana dress conspired to render last nights ball as one that will long hold a cjnpcaous place in the minds of those whu saw and participated in it Tue face is tee solitary soli-tary eye glass was wanting J he gentlemen gen-tlemen were attired in the main in full dress and many a shrt bosom gliteopa and shined beneath a black tie and he full blaze of many gas jets The arrangement ut the stage was also marked improvment both as to appearance and convenience TIle music was all that could have been desired de-sired and there were just enough present pres-ent to Keep the floor well tilled aud to rob the ball of tbe annoyances that invariably I in-variably follow crowding Goodnature lovely women in elegant ele-gant attire dashing young men and musicwell you may guess the rest II |
