The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-03-26
DAT GAL PROM lGRllFIS,"
And the Furore She Created ct q
Masquerade Ball.

colored people at hall ON Biddle street
Monday night, and the costumes were
elegant. 1t had been announced that .
prize would be given to the best-dressed
lady and to the best-dressed gentleman
present on that suspicious occasion, and the
toilettes were what might have been ex.
pected under the circumstances-simply
gorgeous. There we're bellies of all shades
Of color and all shades of dress present, and
excitement over the award Of the lady's
prize, particularly, rose high, for the prize
was . silver pitcher. "De committee on
prizes" had delicate task. but performed
j: firmly and there was trouble, awful
trouble, in consequence. A reporter yester-
day made inquiries on the subject from one
OF the participants in the festivities. He
told the story as follows:
"De flo wuz jes jammed full O. gale
dressed way up, but dar wuz culled gal
from Mem6s laid 'em all out. for shuah !
De committee 'xamined her, and dar wasn't
no dissenshun voice 'mons 'em. She wore
pink silk an fixins az eream-coiored kids
an a sof oilskin mask, an lordy how she
spread herself roun'! Finally de time
come fur dat ar committee ter make de
award, an yer might a heard a pin drap
An de silber pitcher wuz showed up an
one teller he got up an 'nounced dat de gal
from Mem6s had tuck it in. Some Of de
gals snickered scornful like, but de gal
from Mem6s didn't mind 'em, but jes took
de pitcher an went an tucked it way long
on her shawl, in de dressin' room. an come
back, an ef she want de belle oh de CASTOR,
den dar Amt no snakes! She stood talkin'
by one cnlled gem'man little while after
war'is, when another gal come up, both
both eyes blazin', an dressed 'er:
"You's ta:kin' to my ieliah, you brazene
trash, an wont low il"
"De gal from Mem6s answered very lady.
like and digni6ed: II was not avaah,
madam, dat i wuz addressin' your gemmen.
Had I been awaah oh de fac should hab
exhibited de mos superAuous circumspec-
ton in de mattah. / begs pahdon, madam,
indeedy."
"But de gal WIZ mad, an fore de gal
from Mem6s had more'n drawn her BRET,
she handed her one in de bread basket. An
den dat gal from Mem6s show'd herself
She les liz on de one 'tackin' her, and mos
spilled her in bout minnit! An de gals
mother came sailin' inter de wah and four
other gals, all Jealous as de debble, come .
sailin' in, too. an dar, wuz six oh 'em all
on de gal from Mem6s, an tore her up
drefinl. One sleeve oh her silk dress lay
of in lie far corner oh de room, and de
drapry 'roun' dem sebben wimmen on de
10 wuz bilinr An de Ho' committee
sed dey couldn't low no such excited per-
formance in de hall an 80 de combatants
wuz remobed to de ballroom ter fight it
out. An de fellah dat de gal from Mem6s
vuz talkin' to, lowed he'd see fair play,
and made de wimmen 'sault de Mem6s gal
one at time. And de way dat gal from
Mem6s struck out wuz jes beautiful! She
chugged 'em in de face cherry time, and de
blood few all cher! She didn't hab close
enough leP ter bother her any. and finally
she dun got away with all oh em. She
wuz in . dredful condition at de end oh de
yah, when she repaired ter de dresin' room
but she Tux away dat silber pitcher v'-
s.. Louis R<pxbtieun.