The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-31
A DARK DANCE
AND A sCALLOPED SUPPER.

AND a SCALLOPED SUFFER-.
BEwILDERINe MAZE OF BLACK BEAUTIES
AND ALASKA DIAMONDS.
The society man Of the New York World,
having attended tony colored reception,
observes: Those who have read of the
brown girls OF Dude and tbs beautifully
dancing virgins of Budgpoohtna, and with
credulity imagine that dusky beauty can
alone be found among these, or that the
Great Ricardo is its sole representative in
this country, should have visited the
"FIrst Grand Reception and Social of
the Unknown Glee Club" which last
night darkened the Lincoln Literary
Hall from O'Clock until that hour, when
with one accord the earnest watchmen of
the precinct wakened in response to the last
wsrning carol of the ever-vigilanL rooster
The Lincoln Literary Hall is in Twenty
seventh street, between Sixth and Seventh
avenues. The building Is one of positive,
though departed grandeur, uncountable
stories high, with broad basement windows,
which serve for the display Of many rows of
attractively labelled bottles and monogra-
matte placards issued in the interest OF
breweries and distilleries innumerable
From the sidewalk a flight of stone steps
leads up to an illuminated vestibule, and
from this vestibule last evening was OBJ.
servable through long and narrow glass
windows set in the inner door,
TIE cuRLED HEAD OF THE CASHIER
of the Unknown Glee Club, enfrsmed in a
gothic hole which the 35 cents necessary to
individual admission were instructed to
pass through. At the side of the gothic
window was a double door, over which a
member OF the club, high in its esteem for his
literary and musical abilities, With swallow
tail coat, white Lisle thread gloves and
natural hair profussly powdered, absobred
perceptible quantity OF gas-light, sending
however, z reflected glsam from an un-
sheatned row OF hospitable teeth as to each
new conner or knot of corners as he threw
open halt the door upon the bail room. The
bail room was large enough to accommo-
date with every comfort the fifty or sixty
couples who were gathered in IL. The first
feature which visitor would observe was
the band, "a good band" the programme
called it, and It must have been, for the
music was very intelligibly played, notwith-
standing that each member labored under
the obvious disadvantage OF having his
hands encased in white thread gloves The
man with the bass drum seemed to get along
very well, but the fiddlers found more
difficulty, as did the unhappy African whose
gloves were three s zes too big and whose
instrument was the hageolet. But 1t was in
the audience that the glory of the occasion
lay.
HERE WAS RIC HNEss.
The floor seemed theater Of elegant panta-
Icons. And the diamonds, scores Of rods of
them, darting out their tremulous rays of
light, seductiveIy winking and blinking
like belladonna in a woman's eye. And the
acres of yellow gold, too, and the topazss
and garnets and opals and pearls, flashing
and melting on sable necksi Who can tell
sheir cost or guess what coveteousness they
last night excited or what excellent and un-
told dusky females they delighted and rem
dered miserable? Not the writer, as thrust