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Show .. People From the v j Hills Go to Spring- x .1 field and See Latest 1 . i Dances From I j J South America v. j; and Paris.. -H? ' The Mardl Grae,-which for so lone r '-i has made the City of New Orleans , famous has broken out in tho 'y'Ztf Ozarks. Before the season of fes- , '' ' tivlty, had ended In New Orleans, ' ' news came that In the mountains of s5fc. I Southern Missouri and Northern J , Arkansas bright ' colprod . posters were appearing telling- of a festival ! to" be held at Springfield, tho me- "1,1 - tropolls of. Ozark land. ';?;- . The event -was heralded as a great social event Among other things j the tango was to be danced there. , The real Argentine tango was to be j seen for the first time, according to I the posters. A foot note on the bot- kf.' J torn of . the posters said A In tango ma&Jf&f C' V'a3 nronounced as -A- Sn tho word n(g: a". That footnote was a guarantee PInIm '' tnat lhe tango was to be tho real E7$3 thing. - ' r, Thcro were to be all the other lat- . j -,. est dances just as they were danced IV in "Gay Faroe." In order that nono would be afraid to dance. It , -was announced that the night of the grand- Mardl Gras ball everyone was to come masked JuBt as they do' in "N'Orleans." "With such glaring posters staring them in the- faces citizens of tho Ozarks went to Springfield to tako part in -the festivities. .C- 'Those who have long had an Idea that they danco barefoot In tho Ozarks had. a chanco for the surprise sur-prise of their lives. More dainty shoes and feet appeared at the big Mardl Graa hall than have been seen n many a more supposedly fash-I fash-I ionable city. .Newport could not compare with Springfield. "New Orleans was not. on tho map. with - - . J... the Missouri City. - Down in the Ozarks they have - Sone barefoot for a long time. Girls ; and boys go barefoot until they get T, hig. The 'result has been perfect ! ' .f.eet. -It was a-,gloriou3, joyous festival. Tho dancers did not go home until 3 o'clock; in the morn-Jrig. morn-Jrig. The unmasking- didXnot come until 2 a. m. (Many Spririgflelder3 ' ' , 1'J were, shocked at the Invasion of the ' - f Mardl Gras. Nine o'clock had been the authorized bed time for many V'2 i 3'ears. -..) But the old order changeth. Phy- . ' j 8lclans have. long held athepry of the I germInfluence in .spreading disease: j .Physicians-in Springfield have come V. j to the conclusion that tho Mardl .'j Gras, .is contagious and that tho germ has just broken out In - the Ozarks. The Mardl Gras did one thing for tho Ozarks, besides furnishing amusement to those who took part. It gave opportunity for visitors in the city to see that the Ozarks are not different from any other portion por-tion of -this earth for growing people. peo-ple. The Ozarkors did not danco barefoot. That was the first thing It showed. They do wear goo'X clothes and know how to dance the tango. While there were many who came to the city from the hills who had never seen the tango before, they decided they had not missed much in the way of sights, and visitors visi-tors to the city came to the conclusion conclu-sion that tango did not nocessarlly mean civilization. BOHEMIAN SPIRIT IS EMPHASIZED. The club house decorations wero adapted to emphasize the Bohemian; happy-go-lucky spirit of tho evening. even-ing. Vivid flashes of color were overy where. The ceiling of tho ballroom ball-room was almost concealed by a network net-work of spiral confetti, and streams of confetti dangled from the grinning grin-ning masks which hung above every door and window. Flake3 of confetti con-fetti flashed In" the air. Trom tho shaded lights a color radiated through which the dancers floated and frolicked In merry revelry. The fun of slipping out of one's own personality and donning another an-other just for ah evening seemed to be felt most by the members of tho party who In their workaday life arc expected to be the most dignified -and learned. The enthusiasm with which the club members and their guests received tho idea of a Mardl Gras festival was e.vprossod In tho many attractivo costumes which enriched en-riched tho occasion. All the belles and beaux of History, past and present, pres-ent, from Marie Antoinette to Em-mctt Em-mctt Newton, tangoed and laughed and played with colored balloons and slid down a huge sliding board and otherwise acted Uko 'jes folks." Chinese mandarjns in richly em- ' broidcred costumes, gypsy queens, gorgeous Spanish dancers, little bisque bis-que dolls, a whole army of clowns, swarthy . Mexicans, and. . Colonial dames and gentlemen formed a grotesquely gro-tesquely beautiful spectacle on tho . ball room floor. , f Judge -John-G. Farringtonthe Springfield Court of Appeals fooled everybody until unmasking time. He was dressed as an absent minded old German savant with wisdom bulging in large quantities from his bald head and solemn spectacles astride his nose. Then there was D. E. Fitzgerald, who made a great TTTTTTirfr a m a . 'sensation as-Harry Lauder In Highland High-land costumo with a gorgeous hat and the real thing In red jslde whiskers, whis-kers, villa, the Mexican warrior, appeared In tho person of J. T. Dog-grell, Dog-grell, whose disguise was so perfect that he was hardly recognizable even without a mask. Edwin Bixby hid his personality. from the' world with a. costumo . which might have represented a haystack. with electrl-c'ul electrl-c'ul attachments, and ICarl Eaton was splendid in tho gorgeous embroideries em-broideries of a Chinese Mandarin. R. G. Johnson with white wig and blnck suit, probably made a better Gcorgo Washington than Washington himself did when ho was alive. E. M. Smith, president of the Young Men's Business Club, also took a 1 little flyer In old fashioned dud.-?, and was. arrayed like a cavalier of the Old Dominion. Mrs. Smith, In. a, prim little brocaded gown, also looked like a lady of yo olden timo. Dan Scharf as a washwoman added to the merriment of tho occasion; W. F. Plummor appeared as a Mexican, and Mrs1. Plummer In a flashing Spanish costume. A blue satin gown with full panniers and . pink roses made Mrs. Henry T. Hornaby resemblo a court lady of tho day of Mario Antoinette. , Mrs. Alva" Mllllgan made a bewitching gypsy In a costume of red, green and yellow. Mis Chloo Tolerton in quaint Japanese costume might have stepped out of Madame butterfly. but-terfly. Mrs. Leo Ullman was a dainty French doll. Miss Marjorla Sanford appeared in a creation of pink satin carrying a violin In an attractive representation of "The Pink Lady." and Mrs. Harry Hudson Hud-son Upham, also daintily costumed, appeared in this role. Miss Elizabeth Eliza-beth Glaser was a Hungarian danc- - er, and Miss Frances Heckenllvely 2 I flashed across the ballroom as Gar- j men. Mrs. Will Ullman was at- : tired In a vivid Persian costumo. v. Will Reps was a perfect lady of the V Turkish persuasion. J Tho grand march was led by f John McGregor as Stephen Brice . and Miss Mildred Mann as Virginia Carvel,--followed by Louis Reps and Miss Carrie Baker as Quaker 31ald. J The march was followed by a snake . dance, and by all sorts of other dances. During the " revels thou- ; - sands of balls of confetti were let i loose, and many gay balloons. The spirit of revelry grew madder and merrier after the surprise of unmasking, un-masking, .when the mystery of mask and domino gave way, and - everybody was freo to enjoy to the limit tho last good time before the Yi Lenten season. A feature of the j evening's entertainment was a -1 dance, the Argentine serpentino, by j Miss Elizabeth Glaser In Hungar-ian'costumeand Hungar-ian'costumeand Edgar Herman in 1 tho gulso of a Mexican. Supper j- i wag served at midnight. ' The affair was given under the j direction of the Entertainment Com- T, ; mlttce of the Springfield Club rt ' Lee Ullman, H. B. McDanlel, Louis ( : Keps, Dan "Soharf and Frank Mann. It Is reported that none of theae persons mentioned could .break into j society in New York, but who cares. j Nono ot New York's "400" could br.oak Into society in the Ozarks, . either. - ' . ; Socloty and 'fashion-really do not j mean much. What is fashionable J , In -one place may not -be fashion- I ' ablo In another. The society folks ; ' of Newport are not society folks la Springfield.- One set Is as exclusive as the other. B.qth sols arc made .' up of4 good looking human beings ;. who look better when they get on good looking clothes. |
