Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-08
Ball at NIiddIetown Springs

A correspondent writing to the Boston
journal speaks of the Ball, which took
place at. the Springs on Monday last,
as follows:
Our stay, as in previous visits here, has
been as prolific of the most satisfactory
results. both as Regards health and reo~"-
alton, and on Monday evening, more
especially, we participated in festive re-
union and dance from which a world of
pleasant memories have been gathered and
stored away.
The "sound of revelry" that went out
from the lighted halls Of the Spring
House into the little valley and the noun
tain Businesses round about after the shad-
ows of night had set in. gave promise OF a
gala occasion for Middletown Springs,and
the joyous hum of sprightly voices, the
pattering of pretty feet upon the, floor OF
the ball room, the laughter Of mirth in
chorus, mingled now and then with the
''voluptuous swell" of music, all combined
to bespeak an evening as delightful as the
yotaries of watering place enjoyment
could desire. And right merrily winged
the hours away. Although darkness
came on denser and deeper with the
storm-cloud that gathered and ragged With
out, everything looked bright and cheer
full within; and, as each and all felt we
| wont go home till morning" what cared
we for the fury of the elements, resolved
| for the present at leaet to Gull the utmost
happiness from the passing moments. As
the night wore on to those witchiDg hours
when mirth seems contagious aud the
soul expands in unrestrained enjoyment,
| the excitement of the dance grew more
| intense; the house fairly shook with the
elastic tread of the many couples keeping
time to inspiriting strsins; fun and frolic
| waxed fast and furious, and even the
musicians redoubled their Efforts under
the impetus of exercise, or the inspiration
perhaps, of "spring water"
We met and passed in the merry twin
ings of the dance, our good friend, Miss
Akin, of Troy, n. Y, go full of life and
light and Joy that she seems to dispense
sunlight and happiness all around her.
Here, too, we encountered the gracious
and always pleasant Miss Arnold of Sand
Lake, N. Y; the generous Miss Lyman
of New Haven, whose heavy blue eyes
search deep down into the soul az if in
quest of purity and truth; the sprightly
Miss Wilcox of Cattskill, N. Y; and the
imperiously charming Miss Coursen, of
Elizabeth, N. j., as naughty as beautiful
Here, also, we met Mrs. Shepard and her
pretty daughter, of Cleveland, O., ever as
"merry as a marriage bell )" Miss Kinds,
of Oil City, Penn, beautiful after that
delicate, highly-wrought spiritual type
which is the special Inheritance of the fair
women Of America Mrs. Gibbs of Brook
lyn, elegant and graceful and most su-
perbly dressed, and Miss Woodbury., of
Lynn, Mass, vivacious and petite.
Boston was represented by the hand
some and accomplished Miss Allen, whose
every movement is queenly whether "dis-
solving in the waltz to3some soft air" or
treading the stately cotillion, as if con-
scious of her power over the ''lords of Gre
alton" ever ready to court her peerless
smile. Prominent among the fair repre-
sentatives of New York City shone Mrs.
Rogers, fitting like phantom of delight
through the bewitching mazes of the
schottische, the polka and the quadrille.
Others, and goodly number of the elite,
were present, and, while we would not
make invidious mention of any, memory
is 90 treacherous we can only now recall
the names Of Mrs. and Miss Stevens, New
York; Mrs. Burlingame, Rochester; Mrs.
Allen. Waltham, Mass. and Mrs. Wood