Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-27

brilliant and picturesque entertainment
eVergiven in New York. The house itself,
seen as it was under q blaze of light and
kindled with splendor everywhere by mass
es of flowers and moving throng of most
magnificent costumes, was the most fitting
frame work an artist could have asked for.
A succession of pictures, so heterogeneous,
SO incongruous in detail, and yet in their
general effect SO dazzling and so at
tractive.
Lots were drawn on Saturday last by the
ladies in charge of the quadrilles to de-
eide the order in which they should be
danced, it being previously agreed that
the ball should be opened by the ''hobby
horse quadrille," fantastic set, under the
leadership of Mrs. s. S. Rowland and Mr..
James V. Parker, to which, by common
consent, the privilege was assigned of
filling the scene for five minutes and no
more. The first place among the more
picturesque quadrilles was drawn by the
Mother Goose quadrille," under the lead
ership of Mrs. Lawrence Perkins.
At little after II O'Clock, to the strains
of Gilmore's band, six quadrilles, compris-
ing in all nearly a hundred ladies and gen
tlemen, were formed in order in the gym
nasium and began to move in glittering
professional pageant down the grand
stairway and through the hall, winding
through motley crowd of princes, monks,
cavaliers, high.anders, queens, kings, dairy
maids, bullfghters, knights, brigands and
mobiles.
The procession passed down the grand
stairway and through the hall into a noble
| room on the front Of the house in the style
of Francois premier. Vast carved cab
inets and an immense deep fireplace gave
| an air of antique grandeur to this room.
| from which the procession passed into a
bright and charming salon of the style of
Louis XIV. On the walls hung three French
gobelin tapestries, century old, but in
the brilliance and freshness of their color
ing seemingly the work of yesterday. Over
| the chimney piece hangs superb portrait
of Mrs. Vanderbilt, by Mad
razo, full of spirit, character
and grace.
Thence the procession swept on into the
grand dining hall, converted last night
into ball room. In the 'hobby horse
| were the most wonderful things of the
kind ever constructed in this country. The
| workmen were two months in furnishing
| them. They were of life-size, covered
| with genuine hides, had large, bright eyes
| and flowing names and tails, but were light
enough to be easily and comfortably at
tached to the waists of the vearers, whose
feet were concealed by richly embroidered
hangings. False legs were represented on
| the outside of the blankets, and so de-
ceptiTe as to be really quite perfect.
The costume was red hunting coat,
white satin vests, yellow satin knee
brooches, and white satin stockings. The
ladies wore red hunting coats and white
| satin skirts, elegantly embroidered. All
the dresses were in the style of Louis XIV.
This quadrille was organized by Mrs. How
land, with the help of Mrs. Richard H.
| Irving, Mrs. Robert and Mrs. James V.
Parker.
The opening quadrille of the ball. how
ever, really was the Mother Goose quad
rille," led by Mrs. Lawrence Perkins as
Mother Goose and Mrs. Oliver II. North
cote ss the Wizard. Perhaps the most
brilliant costume was that of the Daughter
Of the Forest, with ferns and butterflies in
her hair and necklace of jeweled lizards.
This was hardly so remarkable, however.
as the costume of the Comet, which con-
| sisted of black and cream colored satin,
richly embroidered by hand in gold stars,
and gold threads running through the hair,
which was worn loose and flowing with a
| diamond star. i necklace of diamonds
was also worn. Miss Work, as Joan of
Arc, attracted great attention. Miss Edith
Fish appeared as Marie Antoinette. The
young Duke de Morny wore a court
dress of Louis XIV. and buttons
were made of real diamonds, rubies and
sapphires. Herbert Wadsworth appeared
as Don Juan, ia white satin slashed and
pulled with black velvet and embroidered.
The groups enjoyed the double pleasure in
seeing and of being seen.
| Mrs. Vanderbilt's irreproachable taste
was seen to perfection in her costume as a
Venetian princess, taken from picture by
CabaCal. The underskirt was of white
and yellow brocade, shading from the deep
est orange to the Eghtest canary,
the only high lights being white.
The figures of flowers aad leaves
were outlined in gold, white
and iridescent beads. A light blue satin
train was embroidered magnifcently on
gold and lined with Roman red. Almost
the entire length OF the train was caught
up at one side, forming a large puff. The
waist was of blue satin covered with gold
embroidery. The dress was cut square in
the neck and the flowing sleeves were of a
transparent gold tissue. She wore a We
netian Gals covered with magnificent jew
els, the most noticeable of them being a
superb peacock in many colored gems.
Lady Vaudeville, who received the guests
with Mrs. Vanderbilt, wore a costume in
the most fortunate contrast with the toilet
of Mrs. Vanderbilt. Her dress was copied
from picture by Van Dyke of the Princess
DeCroy. The petticoat was black satin
embroidered in jet. The body and train
were of black velvet ornamented with
heavy jet embroidery. The dress had
large pulled Van Dyke sleeves, an immense
stand up collar of Venetian lace, the
sleeves being turned up with the, same lace,
the whole crowned with black Van Dyke
hat and dropping plumes, turned up at one
side and blazing with jewels. Nothing
could have been more becoming to Lady
Mandeville's blonde beauty than this mag
nifcent and somber dress.
W. L. Vanderbilt appeared as Duke de