West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1881-10-21

After thc Ball.


baltimore American.
Com@lia luget sccna est dcser:al The
ball is over. We had one hero in ISL
another in 1924, the third was over with
this mornings twilight When will the
Lafaye'tes and their gallant companions
come again TO dance with the ladies of
Baltimore VIII it be when the bellies
who smiled so swcc,ly and wsl,zed so win
ningly last ni2ht are grand danes ia their
turn2 VIII it be when our city is as large
as Paris, and it's boulcyar's overlap Tow
soniown and bridge the steep slopes of the
/ GuNpowdeI2 Absit omen! We ,NDect 10
see them much soOner-if for no other
reason, at least TO dance at another ball.
Needless 10 say, the ball was successful.
The arrangements were excellent. the con-
pany select, the flowers superb, the music
entraucing, the guests worthy such an en-
lertainmcut, the ladies' well, no need TO
sing the praises OF the Baltimore beauties
The lines of grace aud harmony are theirs
by inheritance, theirs the "cryatal brow
the Moons despair, and the Shows daugh
ter, white hand" theirs the checks of
pure audrhythmic color on which the shy.
enticing Pushes Of emotion como and 90
like the electric thrills which pulse through
an Aurora; theirs the hexile, elastic, un.
dulaung forms which melt into the illu.
sions of wsltze az imscry mingles with
a poets dreams theirs the yeet, conndng
yet Tusc prat,lr, ard quick mobility of *
preston, which nrchly mock the innocence
Of presumptuous youth with the vain
hope that he has at last discovered that
phantom point "Shere womanhood and
childhood moet"-in short, our ladies
were all represented
II il not to be rashly assumed that tho
ladies' aud or guests conycrsed much
upon archaeological subjects, yet what a
subject that wss for the antiquarian! i
was as if life hoycr,d ike "A ster butwix
two worlds-the ocean aud a century On
vided them; yet hero were the balls Of
I 1881 80 repeated over egein-,he sam,
Baltimore, the same lsdie the samC
French ofiicof5. Il il true tho latter di,
not dress IN shorts and velvet, nor weaI
their hair powdered AID en queue, nor die
tho ladies' altogether dass az they ed u
Marie Antoinete's day; the minuet a,
la cour and the coniradanse havo giyeI
place to other figures Of "a liyelisr sor
and there has come a change over the mU-
sic which is quite az marked as The chang,
from wax candles 10 electric and calcium
lights Still, as of old, IL YVES Nyaille5
a Lafayette, 40 Aboville or a Yiomcrii
who led out q Miss X q Mss Y, or
Miss u just as it happened, hundred
years ago-thc same courtly grace upol
the one side, Tie same fascinating charm
and bewilderiug beauty on the other
Heaven help US have We slept a1d dream
"a awoy hundred yeart? Are we slil
lint.makiDg ard cartridge making, anc
reading over letters three months old from
our csmpsigners With Greene in the Caro-
linas, while these gallant end gaily equip
cavaliers march on % weave their line
OF trenches about Co7nwallis? Not so ba,
rs that, peThGp.; and yet, here IS Polly
X . card marked down with dance 1,
Monsieur le Ficomtc de ~. Simon, enc
Nancy W. has Count LEstrade crsdltcr
with german and W. DC Chambaunes !,
Palicc with n waltz, and M le Comtc q,
Grssse-names right from the trenches OIL
Yorktown! Can that music be from th,
band Of the Regiment Dcux POnts, or Il
II witcbCraft and enchonlment from BE-
ginning 10 end? Merlin, tho magician, ha,
bat to wave bis wand 10 people q wintrJ
scene of desolauru with The forms az,
foliage and figures q tropical summer
the moss and snow took shape Of fcrnt
snd VINES, and the guarird p.nes grew iut
palms aud hluysu trees, where peacock,
pIumcd theIaselyea and cha,tcrlDg apes
grew fst on q 20 aud cJcOa-uus. UGye ",
9 Merllo imoIe us2
IL was natural for such fsncies 90 rise
up 10 ;he sedate minds of those who
sat aDd ws.cbcj the gay aud busting
sceuci bu. lttle the dancers rocked OF Oh.
t,que cyDcclts as they wbirled around. Oi
swarHed tbe Hobbies, or Fl rted Bro alclve.
ond boxes. There were some of 0u
bellies who had carefully coached them
selves in. Oucudorf but when they G I'D,
NIf'tA NIa. "'. its '.i' taa.i Nlfalf nun
yocabuiarics 60 tae winjs, and quickly es
tablishcd sort OF iBgua ffauce, or con-.
mon mecuYg-pouud of mutual iuie.d
gence, in which eyes and eyebrows and
shoulders played quite ss important par
as tongue ard lips, and sll went merry o..
q marriage beil--in short, hn occasion moi
% De- forgotten until the next centennial
ABUsSRss uFw on T.
The Ohcle-Tho Baltimore october
Fes,ivai--is over, and 30 is proper for o..
Go look 40 results Our guests have come
and some Of ibcm have gone, We have bad
our fun end ffolic; We have seen tbcslou
aud The pageant, heard Che music oul
danced az tbc bsll N0w the curtsin d.
down, The lights are ou' The rovousu
have unmarked. Let us foot up lt,
BIDS aut count the proGl erd loss Lei