| Show fashionable PARTIES the expunge and inconvenience of lare balls new york is distinguished every sea son for its monster masquerades and fancy balls in spite of gas music flowers and gay costumes these gatherings if we are to believe the reports of many who assist at them are at once dreary and disgusting the multitudes of mock kings knights duchesses es pick wicks cardinals indians clown columbines pantaloons hidalgos dalgos hi sailors flower girls and what not who meet upon a common level upon these occasions are nothing more than promenading and gyrating dummies says the new york ledger the world may be a stage but these ladies and gentlemen show very clearly that all the men and women are not not one in five hundred of them having the 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 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 except by force of arms fifteen dollars for a ticket and one hundred dollars for a costume may not be too much to pay tor six hours of discomfort but by riding in the city railroad or elevated cars or the same length of time you can get shoved jammed and hustled about almost aa thoroughly for much less money and you pay any thing extra for costume either |
