New-York tribune., 1873-02-14

properly misbehaving ourselves, an art only
acquired by veritsbe ladies and gentlemen II
too, how the majority OF Americans lose their
natural intelligence the moment they the magic
circles OF masks. There is wonosyilabic spell upon
them, and yes" aud no" foe-oota. py a wretchod
SMILE constitute their stock OF mother wit Any one
has brains enough TO go to German" but every one
cannot attend masked balls with mpunity. Esprit re-
partee, aud grace OF indispensable to the
carrying out Of this amusement Few OF us are
Wise enough TO play the fool"
You must observe their mood on whom" you Jest
The quality of person and the time;
And, like the haggard. check at every feather
That comes before your eye. This is practice
AS full Of labor as q wise mans art"
Who, then. afford to despise the machinery of q
maski Whoever masters its ntricsces whoever wears
it with entertainment himself aud Others equal to
any gency in life Do you doubt tt ye OF little
faith, come with me TO the Aron to night and IL
impertneny truthful domino does not whisper in your
that YOU unmigated bore. then you shall
ceiye the honors due only to fool
AT THE BALL.
We at the bali, in a box. the highly moral young
man No who doesn't dance, the highly moral young
No who does dance aud myself who do both. The
sale is gay with life aud color Kaleidoscope In change
and hue, and straightway harlequins stand their
heads intense delight There always something
satisfactory in seeing people as we'll as things upside
down. especially when harlequin Is hoored to such
an extent as 10 put MS IoO IN IT. OF al easJ III ne hau
been right side up it would have been his
foot. But he really makes great
impression the hoOr as TO require the immediate
presence OF carpenters who repair the aching void and
everybody appauds. It's way audiences have. They
always applaud the unexpected appearance OF sons Of
toll arrayed in their noble shirt-sleeves. trumpet
now sounds Like the rest OF it has the caarrh but
never mind it's intentions honorable. The band be-
Gins TO play what the Highly Moral Young Man who
doesn't dance and knows not one tune from another
declares is Dead March, Perhaps 1t Is AT
least the music is dOeful and ought 10 be-
for eight dwarfs representing nut-crackers with
very big heads and slender legs, thread the wind
ings Of the may with wonderful distortion OF perpexed
legs They dance in spite OF their teeth, which ev
IDENTIFY giving them great pain Inever before realized
what uutcrackers endure in exercising their go
rious profession. One nutcracker reminds the H. NJ u
NJ, No. 2, OF Schuyler COlfaX There IA melancholy
resignation about him il TO say: "Why, why why
should there be memorandum books Why cannot by
cones he bygones Why should not my smile be equiv
alent,to TRUTH Alas things are not as they
we're" No, they are not. Colfax disappears
endeavoring TO crack "a very hard nut,
aud 10 the curtain rises upon spanges light ana all ha
luminous glory which in childhood makes us long TO
marry Columbines and embrace Harlequns az our only
beloved father.
The Floor Committee in the glittering costumes OF
Lohengrn march forward, aud the feminine heart con
should the LOheDgrn pages carly about more avordu
pois than their superior eldersi
Were LOhengriu pages fat boys' But look you! Here
are Mandarins all the way from China, so Ike our
friends OF the teacaddy make long for the cup
that cheers but not inebrates Grenaders OF lie Roi
Caroe succeed Celestias aud bring US to earth again
All. what entertainment is complete without our
guardian angels the police Behold them in all their
length and breadth. aud behold Prince Carnival re-
cning upon a dolphin, smiling nefably upon us humble
morals who sat upon dolphin aud know not tue
ecstacy OF the sportiye situation.
He smes-yes he smiles-but not like COaX, nor like
Prince Carniyaps successor the Rising Sun that, made
in the image Of Tweed, gazes benignantly on ALL as
though what he didn't know about iures wasn't worth
knowing The II. NJ. y. NJ No. thinks that the Rising
sun is hight. Four Seasons trip alOng-Spring in wheel
barrow truly symbOloa OF garden-sass " and Winter
done up in cottOn.batng. skates over imaginative ice
in highly imaginative manner. Santa Claus recalling
the noble features of the amented Fisk precedes bot
tie Of the very best HOckheiner.
But what do / Can 10 be pOssblel Yes. II is our
long lost like TO Stanley Hyperion to
satyr. tall 1.-THE young man III blue neck-tle ana
sealskin cap stalks forward to an air from BAfrcane
He followed by real natives in real black compe1ions
and such nice big feet foot 10 yard! when stan
lev marched through Africa he wore blue neckue aud
particularly seaskn cap Nothing could 10 coo'ef OF
appropriate.
But the meeting with Livingstone II is truly affecting
Both forget their mother tongue, and embrace with
panomime that wrngs tears from the obdIate breast
Of H. NJ T. NJ. No l. And the presents that Livingstone
pours upon his dscoverer There an amable lion who
allows himself TO be led by the ta aud there is our an
cesOr who laughs in faces privately remarkng the
while There be monkeys and monkeys; what does
man but ape his grandfatherf
Dear ne Such an embarrassment OF riches. Pro-
cession after procession. How the immortal Gilmore
saies forth blowing his horn and everybody Joins
in general walk around. 1t is the day o. Jubilee and
the strains Of God Save the Queen" "Wacht Am
Rhon," Yankee Doodle, Ireland's Melodies, and Hail
Columbia" are played simultaneously with an effect
upon the appreciative ear that truly startling But
never mind not under the reign Of Prince Carnival
and are we not al happy / am.
The dancing begins. aud the H. NJ. Y NJ No. delivers
himself Of poem 10 the wtchery of TerpsichOre He dis
appears and genteel pair of twinkng feet attest his
devotion to the goddess OF his devotion. The H. NJ. Y
NJ. No. 2 who hates dancing becomes serious. He NOR
alizes There's nothing more TO my heart than moral.
izing at a ball. The ncongruity appeals TO my keen
sense the eternal fitness OF things Listen TO the out
pesrings OF superior beng-H. NJ Y NJ, No q:
Among the questions that rise unbdden to the mind
are that themselves in the very foundations
OF our fallen nature. Mr.. Darwin knows why school
girls blush dfthey do but could he tell why men always
put on tights when their ees describe everycurve known
20 comic sections why women with hair Ike
stormy sunset wear pink aud purple
spectaces and nothing Of the women they fam
would stare att or wby-aLd there is an element OF
pathos in this-why young men IN dress coats should
make themselves unhappy in mask for an hour or two.
wandering about with air OF awful mystery and at
last unInasking reveal face innocent OF guile and
known 10 mortal in the crowd 7"
THIS is what call the deepest depth OF prOfund W,
and with this awful conundrum staring humanity IN the
face leave the good people who are not at the Anon
Ball TO draw their conclusions But before go 10
supper-for highly moral young men have appettes the
lion gave them appette-I must say that the ball s
well conducted. and II there is little or mask
ing, and therefore opportunity for the exercise
OF that art for which 1 nave pleaded so
earnestly earlier in the evening IL s because because
because when Germany emigraes 20 America, Germany