The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-01-27


monte, 1.-THE French ball." as it Is gener-
Ally termed, at the Academy of Music
last evening. As usual the adjoining
Nilsson and Irving Halls were pressed
into service to accommodate the throng.
AS was to be expected the crowd was
great but everybody was more or less
bored. There were the usual hordes of
giddy women-mostly French-in the
heshiest of heshly Ito use an Oscar
costume, but somehow there
was but little life in them. Perhaps
they were willing to be lively, but our
policemen are perfect cerberi Of morality
and propriety, and therefore the wild
weird abandon which the consumptiye
youth of the yurds,ick and the curious
old boy from the rural district expected to
find, were shorn by its absence. There
was less ornamentatiou of the ball room,
sad absence of oarnivalistic pageants,
and deplorable absel ce Of novel and
pretty fancy costumes. The domino
seemed to be all prevalent. The most no.
table costumes were those of two mag
nifcent women who symbolized night
and morning. Night wore black silk
bodice and tights, and gover this black
lace tunic, short in front and trailing be.
hind. Tue lady had black hair and this
was trimmed with strings of pearls,
Above her forehead she wore large
massive gold crescent set with pearls.
Morning was similarly attired except
that the materials of which her costume
was composed were pure white through
Qua aud her ornaments were diamonds.
These women created genuine sensa-
ton, an1 they deserved to, for hand
some, picture de fantasie was seldom seen
III a ball room,
Tomorrow evening the Charity Ball
takes place. This used to be the great
event for New York's upper society, but
its place has been taken by the Patri-
arch's, the Family Circle Dancing Glass,
and the Matriarch's balls, all of these are
very close corporations. S The Patriarch's
consist of fifty leading gentlemen. They
subscribe each $3.50, for the three balls
annually given by them, This entities
them to nine invitations, five gentlemen
and four ladies. The F. C. d. c. has q
membership of about two hundred. Eacl
of the members subscribes S12, which
entities him or her to admission to thre,
balls. Well introduced visitors may OBJ
tain cards of admission at four dollar.
for each ball. The Matrarch's ball
were organized this winter by numbe
of leading society ladies to repay tn
compliments Of the Patriarch's. Thi
body Is similarly managed to that of tn
Patriarch's, except that the ladies pa,
Sl,25 instead of $3.50. ALI these ball
ara held in Delmonico's and, as might b
expected, the creme de Ia creme of $50
ciety" fights for admissionsto them.
Insurance business of all kinds hn
been paying SO poorly that speculatiy
parties are branching out into new fields
Among the applicants to the State de
partment for incorporation, are part
OF women who propose to organize unde
the name of "The Women's Insuranc
Company" What they propose to in
sure is not stated. The presumptio
however is that the new company will b
composed of and managed by womei
who will do a general insurance business
thinking that they can succeed wher
men at present are fuiling. Let us hop
for the sake Of the fair ones that the
will not give Us another instance of I'll
consequence "when lovely woman stoop
to folly" Women have tried to be brol
ers, and tried to run stock exchanges, 5, bu
money has thus far been SO little attract
ed by their charms in the realms OF busi
ness that both projectors and supporter
have generally been left high and dry. !
party of insurance men are Mt presel
discussing the advisability of forming a
insurance company to take risks on I'll
lives of horses. There is horse irsul
ance company in London, which take
risks up to five hundred dollars at term
not exceeding one year, and it is doing
good business. There is no rtaso
why similar concern, moro LIBERAL
managed, should not succeed here.