| Show the old nd fashioned baell fully three hundred hu adred people attended the old fashioned ball given by I 1 the daughters of the pioneers at the academy of music alusic last monday evening and while every person in the hall was not gowned according to the styles of bygone by gone days there were sufficient old time costumes displayed to give this generation an opportunity to contrast the difference between tile the dress of then and now it it would take an expert in the art of fashion to give a comprehensive account of the various costumes worn by the ladies as well as the gentlemen and no such an all attempt will t be made in this accod account nt of the affair but it can be said that the gowns which were worn by grandmothers forty years ago wedding gowns worn by mothers from twenty to thirty years ago as well as creations patterned after the modes of 1775 arid and on oil down were exhibited and worn with grace A number of young ladies appeared in their mothers wedding gowns while a number of 0 mothers whose faces bear the marks of time and experience became brides again for a night and appeared in fit the regal ia in it which they celebrated the happy union which marked their th air beginning or of wedded life many years ago there was no attempt made to be grotesque or unduly conspicuous but ill all who dresek sed for the occasion faithfully followed an ideal and some very stunning combinations were the result ap p truth it can be said that some of the young ladies looked more captivating in the costumes they appe appeared axed 11 n monday evening than they do in day bashi 10 the gentlemen gentle irien had a p more jore restrict ed field to operate in it in in the matter of selecting costumes the old fashioned ones of masculine persuasion had to be content to bedeck I 1 themselves hem selves in a prince albert that has long ago been packed in fit moth balls and laid away as a family memento the gentlemen made a fine appearance however and the wonder vender is that the prince albert does not return to everyday fashion on the right kind of a form it looks as dressy as anything that has ever been designed the work of the orchestra complemented the occasion for old tunas were revamped old dances executed and everything possible was done to turn tor for the evening the hour hands on oil the clock of time back as far as the occasion suggested in the matter of the old dances tile the present day terpsichorean artists were given an all illustration liow low our fathers and mothers danced in their day in the execution of tile stately and pleasing pleading figures of the french four the anna heel and toe polka and othar dances dri lees and be it said to the averla everi ast st ing credit of the fathers and mothers they danced those dances with greater ease case and more refinement than ma many ny of the blung young people execute the modern fox fo trot turkey trot or whatever they call them the ball was a grand success final bially for the organization cleared up k f tidy sum in fit the venture the success ot of the initial function has inspired the daughters of the pioneers wit with confidence to repeat the thing and they announce that hereafter it will be the purpose of the organization to give at least one grand old fashioned ball each year |
