Show pa evening meus heus T bly MY t LEAP EAP YEAR BALL ENOE A lady of decidedly good taste andi audi and superiority of ability affectionately subi sub i i emitted to my disposal this sentence sentenced q i awill tum you be ber kind enough to accompany 1 me to the social leap year ball on friday evening tears of modesty suffused my marble checks for two minutes and a half after which I 1 stammered out that 1 I would be kind enough what a picture was wag here dei de i a worthy theme for balenger Ba Sa and cottage li what a sacrifice bf of self for a charitable purpose what noble ness of manhood and high of character does this scene not present it is grand sublime and put luuy tyll tho the reader will here imagine a lapse 0 of f two days and nights the momentous friday evening finds young manat man at home with a good selection of borrowed clothes on toe too nails nalls trimmed hair greased and eager for the fray looks look at his watch often and wonders what can detain his partner the young map man above referred to is myself its getting on to 8 pm I 1 wonder darif if im the legitimate partner or only a 37 cent appendage time tries trie sall sali all nil and my triai trial seemed bound to result in conviction when all at once up drives a carriage in comes my evening protector who conducts me to a arquette cushioned seat in the theve vehicle hicle hiele I 1 will here hero remark that my left hand side bile pocket contained a derringer as I 1 was given to understand that I 1 would be looked upon that evening as belony belong 4 ing to the tho softer soften sex and I 1 9 know what emergencies might aree arfe through the sudden transition buti but this precaution on my part was alto aito i gether unnecessary as not ong ono ungentlemanly jy move toward ihm ing me was wash made by the ladies during the evening I 1 if the reader has now gathis got go this his ima lma imagination gi in running order he might amigh t as 13 well vell imagine me tac sitting bitting in the overcoat and boot room awaiting my escort to the tha ball room while sitting there my mind was occupied with thoughts ot 0 how popular I 1 was going to be when I 1 got upstairs up stairs and what feelings of regret I 1 would manifest when necessitated to decline the scores of anticipated invitations to trap the light fantastic toe joe indio in duo due time iwas I 1 was marche marched dup up tenaciously clinging to the night right wing of her hen who adored me speculative A pleasant dance followed when I 1 was wag quietly esconded in a corner I 1 on a il benc bench alongside of a man who drives falt fait fast horses said I 1 mr F I 1 wonder w afat young soung ladies will be lucky enough to secure us for the next quadrille I 1 tm im an ornamental wallflower wall flower 11 said he A what says I 1 1 A I 1 wal wall wallflower 1 flower 9 I 1 an appendage to toa tea a leap year dance danco gat lat that occupies iee the same position as a chandelier or anything else that is noticed laut taut not mot disturbed never you mind 11 says he and out what a wallflower wall wail flower is is by the time youve bat sat here as long ai as I 1 have all cramped up roll r I 1 took a scrutinizing glance around the room and noticed there were many males of my acquaintance looking very unnatural some were sitting with their elbows on their knees the 1 of their hande supporting their drooping chins other sat bat very erech erect with their arms hanging exactly perpendicular w with depression in iq their achs while another class seemed to typify a knot knob on a log setting all with their thein backbones drawn into info the shapo shape ofa of a limerick nish fish fishhook hook book all these J I 1 w was as told werd were wall flo flowers hers kers mi miserable lt I 1 me men n thought 1 I Thos eadies holding numbers from tro fro 24 to 48 will go on 7 says the tho flog floor manageress now ginow says I 1 I 1 esquire square yourself amri mr P F here they cohle I 1 im not going to any unnecessary expense says he lve ive squared my self too many times already prepare to pucker here herd comes comis JL a magenta rigged female skipping along strai straight ghi for me evidently eviden aly afraid some other may ask me first she must have changed her mind though for just benore before she g got ot where II 11 I 1 was she she took up with t h an a 11 wi ordinary looking gentleman wh who s beem seem e e m advery sad I 1 think she danced with wi th him through pity I 1 made up my mind mini that 1 dance that time by this time I 1 began mohave to have an inkling oc of term wall wali wallflower flower and looked upon F and und others with sympathetic re I 1 getan get geb an idea strategy is iq a great human numan blessing so I 1 take a seat alongside t of ofa a miss I 1 and among other things thin isk edher her if she remembers howa howal howai X a ways ed er 91 key KEW eles kies She remarked chatas th t atas WO a 3 1 thing heri cr m emory memory was excellent butia ut if any thing 0 ol 01 the kind h had ee u ed bd it was very indistinct in her er mind 1 but bat if her recollection became refreshed ef p d on that point bho she would jet let me know no I 1 another cotillon was now formed but for reasons befit beat known to myself I 1 did not join ill iii the dance A young lad iad lady y camp a along ing inh i about this tha is time and asked me howl hoar I 1 was injo enjoying yIng myself and she being ot a very talkative entertaining nature I 1 made room ou the seat aud and felt tb that a t I 1 had bad struck oil at last I 1 told h herall er about wow bow ha happy I 1 felt how I 1 worshipped wor won shipped paid dancing as a recreation that I 1 had been looking for her all the evening and would be pleased to engage liefso hen her or i arthe the next set apt that was an impossibility as that prerogative belo beio belonged aged exe exclusively lus ius lup ively to the them ladles ladies it rt was w a well planned ined scheme but the execution i was vas not worth a cent as was evinced ly by the lady choosing out a feller feiler that thai sat satt next to me I 1 now felt that I 1 had bad rather see others dance than indulge myself in fact the doctrine of self sacrifice became apparently mord more necessary rk I 1 silently whistled a few words of a new now song entitled 1 I wish I 1 was a baby or any th thing ingelse else eise that required female attention friend F joins molln molin me in the whistle intermission is capt happily y announced and wali wall flowers take taue L e vengeance on their victuals after which they a again I 1 n range themselves along the wall ta like tike ke quills quilts upon the fretful porcupine A double cotillion follows in lady a gentleman and a wallflower wall flower form a couple this brings the males maies into more demand and alicel I 1 foel feel to rejoice in accepting a dance with a lady who has a patent bucket full of silken hair done up in a pile at the backof the head this is an inverted quadrille and proves a brilliant success with a mortification conmy on my part in consequence of not being i able abie to 0 keep heep my delicate feet th the e boxes which boots come in generally fit me jue off the trail of a ladys dress who was in the other end of the room these trails are a great gift to the e human family faintly in the ball room but the fhe musicians should be instructed to incorporate a few extra stops at certain stages dathe of the tune in order to let the gentlemen now and andl then approximate within a few feet of their partners thirty seven and a half cent bent men are now called for but modesty for forbidding biddi I 1 1 many to appear the wall flo fio flowers ers f fill i ll 11 up at the nato rato of of three for a dollar dollar and many of them considered themselves highly valued at that price especially my friend F who begins to appear less lik ilk ilke like 74 a corpse elderly gents afflicted with rhuma cism and ladles ladies with jarge babies begin to disappear also newly married couples are minus to the delight of wall flowers whose day stars begin to illumine the heretofore darkened horizon bully for all hands now A gentleman beckons me 0 to o an isolated corner and in subdued aub dued voice volee asks me to lend tend him two dollars aud and and fud a half hilf he is probably the hine rine partner of some other mans wife his cause aus e is just but I 1 ean can an do nothing for him I 1 next noticed the coolest piece of impudence of the evening vla v via A standing ahil wallflower wallI lower 0 of U pale visage who undoubtedly felt feit the weakness of w his hig sex i insist insisting inith thai that a young ang lady should transfer to him her cushioned seat beat to the praise af of tha fair one onn she the obeyed with a gr grace ace akin atin to condolence by thi thila allme alime I 1 time timo allm alim built bulit peole people were becoming aured and tle ile fleshy shy ones onea perspired the lamps burned ulue blue the ladles ladies wore werd probably pro ably reflecting etin g on 0 1 A two lw dollars and a i half including extras coach epach hire bire and supper supper and everything came to a close satisfactorily with this exception the manageress omitted on orf tife the part of the committee to return their thanks to the gentlemen gentle gentie nien for the tho good order they had maintained and their perfect obedience diance and subjection to the powers that were on the tho whole the ladies done the handsome and on the balance the wall flowers did the ditto and d as far as lam individually concerned I 1 would almost any time tim e forego the fhe mas masculine euline edline right t af pf 9 f p paying a by i 1 d g the expenses in orden order to hu humor nitin a beautiful e a u t I 1 fe female in a I 1 e A WALL r the fol foi following 10 graduates of the pennsylvania polytechnic college have been added to the engineer corps of the union pacific railroad rall Eail road and ordered to report por t at d t omaha without delay with a ve view w t to 0 speed the location and construction of the difficult section odthe of the niad road riad between cheyenne and salt lakom lake joseph R maxwell W T schneider wm W harris karris james janies F mccabe domigo gareia garcia and aud john B wilson wilon lor lof ia review |