Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-01-31
TIE LEAP YEAR BALL.
BRILLIANT SCENE AT TIE OPERA house LAST
EIGHT-soME OF THEGENTLEMANLY BELLIES
ON THB FLooR-THEIR EXQUISITE Toll
LETS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED.

The Leap Year Ball given at the Opera
! House last night, was a very pleasant affair
aud largely attended. During the two weeks
previous to the event the ladies of the city
we're in a ferpent of excitement over the mat
ter and at least dozsn socal cliaues locked
forces in a discussion carried on with such
vigor, that at one time the contest threatened
to equal the simultaneous reign of three pollt-
| zeal parties in Maine.
pIsAGRRENENTs OF THE LADIES.
| At the first meeting of the ladies there was
breath for two sistings of the Congress of the
| United States. Everything was finally settled
| by the committees, although there was eonsid-
cradle complaint III certain quarters from the
| fact that too many had been invited, snd the
| affair did not promise to be characterized by
that seleGtness which lent such an aristocratc
flavor to the last Leap Year party in this city.
On the other hand it urged that some
really select and gentle bred people had been
ignored .ltogether and it Shame that
i
of dishes etc, for the banquet, next engaged
attention. Those who had loaned table fur
uiture to balls, parties and church parties,
and had never seen the croekery again in its
entirety, and in some cases not at all, were
anything but kindly disposed toward this idea
but were finally persuaded to do 80 for this
occasi only As the time of the event drew
near the ladies forget all their differences and
each one applied herself to the task of getting
to the ball in rig which would outshlne all
other modes, as the central sur wells the light
of the lesser planets. Of course upon the holy
ground of the mysteries of the toilet the fash
ion mar of the APPEAL will not press with
the reportorial brogan.
AGOEIZ8D GENTLlMEN
When the invitations were finally issued,
every male in the city expected to be pounced
upon at once by ladies anxious to secure
partner for the evening For some reason or
another the ladies were in no special state of
persplration, from feeling probably of bash
fulness more than anything else. Some of
the married ladies, however, snapped up the
flower of the Carson youth early in the game;
and finally the young girls came to the front
Just in time to secure the remnants old
bald headed men who had been ignored up |
to that time Some malicious fellows PLAYED |
q very mean trick on some Of their social |.
associates by going about and spreading the |,
report that So-and So had been invited when |
" So and So really had not OF course this |
report prevented many invitations being ex-
tended which would have otherwise gone |!
through the Postofice, and about dozen un- |
fortunate victims were left out until the last |
moment. For several days these poor devils |
were in a state bordering on despair As the |
time approached one youth purchased q bottle |
ceive an ''invite" by night he would swallow
the drug and the bottle both. An invitation |
reached him Just in time to save "Coroner's
quest" Several who had not received invi-
tations up to yesterday noon vowed that if |
worse came to worse they would climb into
side window and dance anyhow. Some of the
SLY girls when they knew positively that man
had been invited would shower invitations O.
him of So pressing a character that he would
be almost crazy with the regret that he had
not waited longer ana taken his pick Those
" no were invited IL EiGle set to work on their
.silets a week ahead. Some sent to San Fran
;isso for embroidered shirts So mach anx-
ETY. and agony was never passed through in
given time.
The time elapsing between 6 @ clock and 9
vas full of trying anticpations. Men with
ollars too large, kid gloves too small, badly I
vashed vests, and shirt bosoms which, ike !
he ghost of Banco, would not stay dowr, were
Disappearing, while an eq nal number of women
Tere stitching on ripped dresses, hunting fer
Embroidered stockings and venting their f.m- {
nine spleen on their dressing maids About
alf past 8 o'clock the hacks ana bsssss began
D rumble about the streets and the men we're
undled into the cow 5yances ald whrleu
way to the scene of the festivities
The ballroom was canvased and the Opera
louise handsomely decorated with pictures and
Lsngers band frs,n Virginia City
FINISHED the music, and after a few prelimi-
airy strains the sets formed for the first quad
lie al 915, with about thirty couples present