Show fashionable hiie Ix penso and inconvenience of larse halls new york is distinguished every season for its monster masquerades and fancy balls in of pas music flowers and gay costumes these gatherings if wo aro to believe the reports of many who assist at them are at once dreary and disgusting tho multitudes of mock kings knights duchesses es pick wicks cardinals indians clowns columbines pantaloons goa sailors flower girls and what not who meet upon a common level upon these occasions are nothing more than promenading and gyrating says tho now york ledger the world may bo 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 the slightest idea of personating the character whose outer husk he or she assumes these monster balls are said to be principally remarkable for impossibilities ties viz the of dancing on account of the crowd the impossibility of getting any i ments 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 for six hours of discomfort but by riding in the city railroad or elevated cars for tho 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 |