The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-13
THE BALL SEASON.

EARLY Engagcmcnts Terpsichore's
TabIets-BriIliant Social and Charita-
bic Balls-Masqucradcs and Merriment.
The ball season OF 1873 may now be considered to
have fairly commenced, and that it win be as bril-
liant as any OF it's predecessors seems probable
from the large number Of fashionable sofrGeS dam
S0ntes announced for the present month. Very
many OF these balls are for the benefit Of asylums
and other charitable institutions, and votares Of
Terpschore who attend them will have the salts
faction Of feeling that while enjovng themselves
they are contributing to the welfare Of the widow
and orphan, the poor and needy. Paterfamilias
cannot grumble much ut the mlner's bills
which shower in upon him when he rejects
or is poutingly told by his pretty daughters
that he is 'killng two birds with one stone"-fd
est, acting charitably by subscribing to meritor
ious institution and giving pleasure to his chill
dren. Moreover, materfamilias resigns herself
pacldly to the trouble of shopping and directing
seamstrcsses, in the hope that her dear girls may
beam SO bewitchingly at the ball that they will
soon be comfortably settled In llfe."
Tonight Momus will hold high carnival ct the
Academy OF Music, the annual masquerade OF the
Cercle Francois de pHarmonie being arranged to
take place therein, and on the following evening
the sixteenth annual ball of the Matthew I. Bren-
nan COterie Will occupy the floor OF the Academy.
On the 18th instant the Forty-seventh regiment
Will give n promenade concert sOtrTe d0nsdnte at
their armory in Williamsburg, and ON the same
night the fourth annual ball OF the Lincoln Union
will take place IN Apollo Hall. The infant Asylum
grand ball will be given at the Academy OF Music
on Thursday next, and Judging by the rapidty with
which the tickets have been sold, 1t promises to
prove grand success.
On the 18th inst. the Adams Express Company
Association gives its annual ball at Irving Hall,
and on the 10Th the New York Transfer Company
Apollo Hall, while simultaneously the Twenty-sec-
ond Infantry ''thread the may" at the Academy OF
Music
on the evening OF January 20 one Of the principal
balls OF the season, and one which has always been
attended by the creme de Ia creme OF New York go
This is the sixteenth annual ball OF the Young
Mems Association, given In aid OF the New York
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. The very conf
mendabe object Of this ball always Induces large
ATTIC enhance Of the bedttns0nde, and the manner in
which IL Is conducted invariably makes IL ftnan-
portion Of its revenue from the proceeds OF this
entertainment, and that fact alone Is SUFFICIENT to
commend 1t to those who combine beneyoence
with fondness for saltat0ry exercise.
ON the 9th instant the Academy OF Music
will be decorated for the f0rty-iourth annual
ball given in aid OF the widows and orphans
fund Of the late volunteer Fire Department.
This IL the last ball that win be given by the asso
citation, and, as its object Is charitable one, 1t
will probably be well attended.
ON February silks Will rustic and fairy feet
trip lightly over the polished floor OF the Academy
OF Music, for on that date the annual Charity BAH
will be held therein. Surely none OF Dame
their smiles will be able justly to complain that
the season is dull one and to sigh for the giddy
whir OF EuIOpa's capitals when so much gacty is
going ON In their own beautiful Empire City.