St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-19
FRIVOLITIEs OF FASHION.
A Clever Costume at n Fish Dinner
--The Forthcoming Charity Bail.

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1.-THE Forthcoming Charity Bail.
Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, April 1s.-A fish dinner has
been the fashionable novelty of the week.
1t has had numerous predecessors during
Lent at restaurant where, in fancy or re-
ality, the chef is wODdrously expert i'll
cooking fish. 1t has been considerable OF a
''fad' to get up parties to dine at this place,
where astOundingly high prices helped the
exclusivenesS of the indulgence. The feastS
have been eurioSities of cuisine and cost,
but this one is regarded as q climax. Not
only was the menu unique, but SO also was
the costume of one of the bellies who graced
the occasion. The private dining-room was
turned into bower of bright green, with
seaweed in prOfusion and quaint embellish-
ments of shells, while borrowed pictures of
pisciculture and water completed the
aquatic decorations. However it was i'll
one of the elaborate toilets that clever con-
ceit was most remarkably carried out. The
wearer was pretty girl belonging to dis
tinguished family. Her hair was lOoSened and
embelliShed with seagrasS: q necklace and
bracelets were pearls and coral; the sleeve
less and low cut c0rSage was delicate pink
satin, shading off into the green of dra-
peries fashioned in artistic stimulation of a
mermaid's lower half. The scaliness of
fish was narrow. and a short train was
shaped like the tail of a fish. The
design had been realized by famous
man dressmaker, but the girl got
credit for the original idea, and
is consequently famous socially. High So
ciety is concerned with ball that is to take
place Immediately after Easter lets
FASHIONABLE FOLKS DANCE AGAIN.
You have heard of the great charity ball,
the one which for so many years was re-
garded as the greatest social event OF the
winter in New York. Lately we have
talked every season of its deterioration.
There really was no such thing. Tickets
were always practically Obtanable by any
one who would pay SO piece, and the
beauty whose satin gown whisked your
elbow was either undoubted or questionable
as to respectability just as it might happen.
But the tendency is toward exclusiveneSs.
and at several Of the charity balls the self
constituted aristocracy, the few hundred
families who regard themselves as Society" :"
have sat in their boxes and looked down on
the dancing as at q circus. The forth
coming ball for charity is oStentatiOusly
meant to be reform. Not the whole
metropolitan opera house, but only the
comparatively small assembly rooms are to
| be occupied and the executive committee,
with Mrs. Astor at its head, is to act on
each applicant for admission separately
and very stringently. Every ticket sold
| will be numbered and registered and at the
entrance will be stationed persons to
identify the ticket-holders, so that no
transfers can be made. BY this method it
| is calculated that the 500 or 900 selected
will be the very pink and perfection of
swelldom. Fun will be made of it. but
they will like the distinction. The money
is to go to the Orthopedic hospital, and this
has led to the coinage of a synonym for
pretentious swells, who are now called
''orthopeds'' and ''peddies." Already the
acutest dandies and bellies are spoken of as
''peddies."