Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-06
THE LADIES CHANCE.
Crushing Preparations Tor n Mash
On st. Valentfne,s Day.

crushing Preparations Tor a Mash
On st. Valentines Day.
There are first-rate indications that the
Leap Year party projected by the young
ladies Of Eureka will be a decidedly 'swell"
affair. st. Valentines, the date selected
for it, is appropriate enough, rs it is en-
phatically Lovers Day" What oppor-
tunities it will offer to the sex which has
had to sit back for four years and with
folded hands wait to be asked The
chance is appreciated. The young ladies,
and some ladies whom we can't, on the
George Washington principle, say SO
much for, the younger and the elder of
the dear soft ones without distinction, are
laying deep plans to get everything in
their own hands on the 14th inst. Great
and startling developments may be conf
IDENTIFY expected. The air is already rife
with rumors of bewitching toilets and
cunning ruses to back them which will be
sure to capture the masculine heart.
There will be. a blaze Of palpitating lowell
ness before which the sterner sex will have
to sit down Immediately. Our dry goods
stores are being ransacked from top to
bottom for suitable materials for the great
mash. The clerks in these emporiums say
they are driven nearly to desperation by
extra labor on account Of the great Leap
Year event. They are almost bursting
with the secrets they are under oath to keep,
and il the strain were to last beyond the
time set, they would have to give some
thing away to relieve themselves. Some
amusing incidents have grown out of the
confidence that they have had thus thrust
upon them. Last night, for example, a
young lady went to one of our popular
dry goods establishments, and after a long
consultation with her elder companion and
chaperon as to the exact shade Of the stuff
that would show off her curved lines and
pretty face to the best advantage, had just
said, ''Yes; I'll take it," when a rival
beauty popped into the front door, doubt
less bent on q similar errand. You should
have seen the way she got away with her
selection. Before the knight of the yard
stick could wink his eye in establishment,
she had snatched the whole bolt of cloth
out OF his hands and was sitting on it, nor
did she cease to warm it thus until she
had frozen out her rival, who disappeared
for a moment, only to pop in again just
after number one had retreated with her
purchase put carefully out of sight. When
SuO SAuOWoihJ ouo W1c OtOAhoaiu
to say: Il knew if she saw my dress she'd
just go and get one like it for herself !"
That's right girls. Steer clear of one an
other. Two polonaises of the same kind
are more than we can stand. One of a
kind is hard enough to repel. The dress
makers are heaying deep signs. They say
they will be glad when st. Valentines
night is here and the fuss and rush are
over. They are just run to death, poor
things, they will have to get up a ball to
fuss over themselves. Meanwhile the men
appear entirely passive. They are doing
nothing to guard against the plans laid to
entrap them. There is one thing we are
authorized to say to them for the ruling
sex Of 'S4, that nothing "snide" in their
get-up or behavior will be tolerated. P's
and Q's will be the order of st. Valentines
evening. No renovated kids will be toler-
ated. The girls say if any fellow comes to
their party smelling Of benzine they will
put him ont on the spot.