| Show A typical entertainment of the season FI DE DAMSELS put their charming heads together and produce something new in socials Socia ls should the reader ba puzzled to hoop pace with the invention of young heads in the way of parlor socials let remember that leap year and statehood cams together and such a conjunction buet account alike for stroked of genina and vagaries of fancy this writer happened to alep into dr maeyers Mae sers house on business esterday attern non and caught piebe of B hobt wonderful ia cobweb work the parlor and dining room had bion festooned festoon ed in a way to excite the anvy of and here he looked to the corners of the they were bare but just ane window on a recently constructed ens pension bridge sat a row of spiders with dilated eyes and astonishment depicted on their countenances you really have improved upon the defendants of said there porter but where are the spinners who are to play hide and sees in this gigantic web oh you just com nere about nine tonight and see them the temptation was too great to and promptly on time be entered the parlor what a sight 1 spiders in silk cashmere and moire spiders in red white cream in all shades and tints that delight the eye bewitching loving and lovable creatures in dainty slippers and fluffy curls scattering ea ailes and filling the room with eyes intermingled with them waa an equal number of a diff dren in black coatna less home ly than ordinarily perhaps but other wie wi e not worth wasting an exclamation point noon what a tangle of threads and voices what a conglomeration of intricate movement laughter and badinage the problem seemed to be ib chois at the other end of my string when all the weba had been led and wound up the following paira were disclosed will ray and maggie thurman mr MOBS and lena bachman walter hasler and annie pike geo swan and alara holbrook 0 goff and lulu gatea joa brer and bina brimhall mr huches and cora button mr stevenson and louise hedquist Hed mr goff and alice young mr reed and miss jones garn dark and era mae bar joha borlace and arullla dark blat ways damsels have of improving leap year there should be a patent on this idea first fasten the cord to the young mans wrist then wind him up to you and verily you have him beyond a peradventure one of the happy on this occasion was no other way would have succeeded the reporter noticed a faint blush on his pale face which deepened to scarlet as the lobely catastrophe in emiles and ribbons ap preached him he has no doubt studied for years aa to how it would all bappel verily she lath him now and he is happy miss maeder and miss beulah bachman who managed this delightful soiree for miss eva maeder next announced a contest in conversation each chose bis lady and twelve pain were soon in charming tete a tete here are bamo bomo of thu problems discussed 1 Is kissing a sin the reporters first se nation as he moved about was that a great many sina were about to be committed in his hearing BO dangerously close did the positives and negatives approach in this trying ordeal he blushed the reporter not the bashful young man there waa no room for more color on the lantere lat tere face he blushed with reportorial modesty and would have withdrawn but that the bell bounded are lief and the next question was an 2 what do yon think the moat bean ticul characteristic of a girl pUo desty ability to blush na atness in dresp were some of the prosaic answers overheard A pretty foot caiti one young man diplomatically catching sight of a pair of aoe ellic clippers just then taking a peep from beneath a pretty dasse the young man was silent but bis face KB if to say the moat charming characteristic te in a lady is a leao year proposal at the end of tangled thread 3 tha strongest symptom of love the reader will perceive that these questions are arranzer arran zed in climacteric order ab the age hay all en into the bands of the ladies and may the lord have marcy on our torn and bleeding affections 1 it was plain to see that the strongest bvm toma of love here were in black and wore cravats the cupida cupids were all on the other side 4 do you believe in comans womans suf freige immediately a change came oer the spirit of the scene attitudes ware assumed which demonstrated that these young ladies are of tie nineteenth century all stages of ake emancipation movement were here de picked from the girl whose countenance that touching passage ol 01 scripture viz thy beaire shall be to thy husband and ha shall rule over thee to the eirl whose energetic gesturing plainly said thy desire ahall be to me and I 1 will rule over thee tha latter spoke to the bashful young man A shade of meekness was beginning to mingle with bis blushes always a comans womans reason not a nineteenth century comans womans wo mans verily 1 became the sentence has bean growing since the days of eve it has reached a predicate at last bet it seldom has asyet but it is modify for all that modify mans conceited estimate of hia mental chyn leap aw rolls round however theae arc reflections of the reporter he does not distinctly call to mind how it waa answered bat has an that the yonn ladies were all talking and the yonn aaen listening when he left he has since learned that the gentle mans prize a silver paper knife went to mr hasler and aba ladys nut cracker to misa annie pike the entertainment went on till mid night |
