New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-01
soiree al Inc sd. Louis Hotel.

The second great seiree of the off on Mon
day evening al the ST. Louis Hotel 1t got up on
magnificent scale and complete in all its appoint
aents Between four and fivo hundred invitations were
issued and should think from the appearance OF the
that at east eight hundred answered Eren-
ncrs band in attendance and dscoursed such music
causes young feet fly in the quick dance and makes
old feet long for past pleasures We said that the rooms
were crowded. and we may add that they were crowded
with the beauty and fashion of the city Female oVel-
forth to be admired arrayed in the most
ing manner and adorned to that point beyond Whicn per-
fiction does not reach Some of the ladies present last
evening squaed in beauty any of previous seasons ana
attracted such degree of attention as might wen turn
the strongest head even it's influences barred from
the warmer regions of heart Our notice was specially
directed to itte lady dressed in white with red favers
nh moved through the dance with easy carriage that
wonderfully beitted and set off her soft wiey beauty
There was another attred in silk of unmentonable hue
something between the coer of Yieux ceps
champagne-who rvaed the personal graces of the belle
of the bali and there was third with merry laughing
eyes who would not stand still long enough for
whether any single tint of the rainbow pred0mnated in
her dress whether she had and them all
together And there still others whom to catalogue
and properly classify would take the knowledge Of Por
the time of patriarch the discrimination Of judge
and the taste of painter There the black eyes
and hair of our own cline mixed up and mingled with
the blue and gold of northern land There were
agacent, Junoike presences that seemed to de-
mand homage quiet demure little faces that asked
for it; and laughing, roguesh countenauces which
took ay ation as flower receives dew because must
and wilt have it. 1t would be hard if out of many
specimens Of hearts-ease bachelor could find
one prg suited to his taste 1t doubtless after
turning such this that Tsnnyson wrote
his /" Vision Of Fair Womenn
Impressive however was the array of female lovli-
last evening assembled at the St. Louis the exhibi
ton of masculine beauty little less and it has
frequently struck strange and cruel that the reports
and notices of balls should abound in praises
of one sex to the exclusion of the other We trust
sometime to initiate that ordo which is fitting,
called for, aud necessary to preservation OF Mems
Rights II red white and blue the predominant
coors of the farer plain white and black at
equal premium with the males The inevitable kids ard
waistcoat with ties of nefabe skill and ability and dress
coats similar that mortal could have
his own unless while his back created uniform ap-
very pleasing to the eye and creditab to true
taste The lords and ording Of creation wandered about
and smiled and made themselves agreeable in thousand
ways which have not space to record.
Just the clock struck twelve the doors of the supper
room thrown open, and the congregated wit and
loneliness othe occasion marched in to do honor to
sumptuoua repast provided with all the Iberaty and
ranged with the taste for which, the management of tho
St Louis SO celebrated At the close of the supper the
of the city before the last trod Taken all
In ALL the occasion of most pleasant and graf
flying character, and one we hope to repeated.