The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-02-25
LOCAL NEWS.

Masonic Rall.-It is p,st-numbcrcd with
The things that were. Can the pencil linn
the graccs Of beauty and youth, the ca
denccs Of music or the fash Of plea .,lre-lit
eyes. Can soulless types thrill with hap.
riness, OK 'lingy oil and lampbluck glow
with the brill.ancy Of LIES morning? But
this IL not a catcchism. We would tell of
the Ball. the largest essembagc that ever
congrrgatcd to Pleasures temple on the
West Side Of Montana. the lIappicst iI,rong
that has danced and s'roJIcL. laughed, chat
ted and coqucitc,l on the hithcr side of long
past years. There wc,H misses. maids and
Mairons-cighiy or m0rc--trom valley
homes and mountain monks. and Of Adams
kind one hundred and twenty, coming,
many of them with Ia lies, distance of 80
90, or so miles. The dancing Hall accom-
n,odsted eight sets. while the Lolgc Room
thrown open for The occasion and provided
with whist tables and organ. afforded fine
promenade room. where short cards. long
conversations. and medium music were At
fractions little less inviting to rs many more
OF course, every body knows the hand.om-
est girls, and the comclicst matrons in the
universe live in this vallcy-or conc 10 our
parties Any one doubling this had better
join the Cuban army. And their dress
why. Jennie jane would have approved
Il, and Worth have hung up his patterns
md advertised his shop ITO Let" could eli
'hcr have dropped in from New York or
~ip 01.rt
shades OF stately danes, "Looking Toward
Sunset" the rich lustre wove by Persian
looms into rare fabrics shinlmercd on bloom.
ing beauties; white. Immaculate Tvs the fall
ing snow, caught with crystal sprays into
clouds of gossam,r, or relieved by bright
bits OF that almost inevitable cxpaiicnt of
oil woman-kind--rbboncd, gave loneliness
another measure Of grace. while here and
there tho little ones OF the Quccn:lom Fitted
about in the brightness Of tropical birds,
wilful and hayward and beautiful. too
Fleeing feet trippcd Pleasures lalarynth
safely, and less skillful tongues wandered
away with posscssOrs into that more intr.
cate lnbaryn,h where silence becomes clio.
qucnt. eloqucnce silent. and 1.-THE old, old
story" solves the problem.
d. And SO. there Was rua md filtration; Buz
Cavcn's Band discuurscd such music as
they alone can; Scott served q good supper
in his ample Hall; The Floor Managers
proved MAJ niiiccnt masters of tho situation:
the hours crept. velvet footed. by. and morn
dawned brightly ere the jewellers had done.
Masonry is full and fruitful Of traditions
unwrittcn histories. that pen has never traced
Society. too. has n tradition that Masonic
Balls are the best This one verified il in
Deer Lodge. Whom We have heard speak
have said that in all that goes TO make n
perfect su"cess. in Halls, decoration. music.
conduct. spirit and good fellowship, they
have seldom known it cqnallcd-rcvcr ex.
ccllch. Deer Lodyers, and Masons in par
ticular, are grateful TO those who came
many miles to be with and of US, on the
22d. We trust they are g,a.iied, that we
may again have tho pleasure Of meeting
them under the auspices of Deer Lodge No.
II, and, that ever. the memory of The events
Of Wsshinyton's anniversary 1870, may
come swcctly rs the music OF dream.