The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-21
THE PRETTY FASCIN AToRS.
They Entertain their Gentlemen Friends
At Willis Hall on Friday Evening.
Other Social Matters


At Willis Hall on Friday Evening.
| Other Social Matters.
The dear girls did II, Talk about leap
year pariies,-it was the only one of the
season that really deserves the title. 1t was
leap year clean through too, none of those
half way affairs where the dear creatures
in'i lite US to ball and we pay for it-oh no,
it was the real article, and done in finer
style than the boys can ever attempt to
attain. Before the hour Of eight had dared
to assert its influence upon the scrole of time,
nearly fifty pretty girls were hurrying in
different directions, some in hacks and some
not, toward the homes of On equal number
Of our boys abodes, and by nine, the Hall
de Willis was comfortably filled with the
merriest collection of sweetness and pslpita'
ting hearts that ii had held for many year
6 one bye. II was q little after nine, per.
haps, when Miss Kate Glenn selected her
blushing partner, and the genial Whsrfeld
Ball announced the grand march. There
was rustic Of skirts, half murmered, 81
shant," and fifty pretty girls had captured
the male population and were leading it to
the middle Of the floor. 1t was real artistic
grand march. A girl can make pretty fancy
work, write tootsy- wootsy Of love letter,
and why shouldn't they DO able to engi neer
q grand marohi Close behind Miss Katie,
followed Miss Minnie Scheying, Miss Kate
Bulger, Miss Matte Farrell and Miss Mag
gle Dralle-a lovely pra etorian cohort, lead
ing sweet hord Of Amazonian captors-of
the youthful heart. The girls mentione
acted as commanders in chief, etc., and their
management was admirable. A nice banquet
at Clark's, for which the girls settled, topped
of one of the pleasantest social occasions of
the season.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
A powerful organization you say? 1t is
the grandest union Of men Of Drawn and
brains in the world. Generous to friend and
foe, standing at the right hand side of all
broth erly instincts, its magnifcence fairly
throws the family tie into the darkened
shades Of oblivion. Assembly No. 800 of
this city, composed Of glass workers and
kindred trades, announced few weeks ago
that ball would be given, under it's au.
spices, at the Armory Rink, on Tuesday
evening last for the benefit Of Joseph At.
kinson. Mr.. Atkinson is a very popular
young man in and out Of the order, and on
account Of the loss Of several fingers from
the effect Of gunshot wound in Laramie,
Wyoming Territory. last SUNNI er, has been
unable to attend to business for over SIX
months. When the doors were thrown open
on Tuesday evening there was a rush of
glass men and their ladies through the
double vestibule doors, and for an hour and
a half the stream was 80 rapid as to make
ticket taking interesting, and not little
laborious, Everything was in ship shape
trim by the time the grand march was an
nounced, but the grand march from an
artistic point of view was not grand sue
cess. But they didn't attend for the sole
and distinctive pleasure Of partsking Of the
exquisite enjoyment Of the grand march
they went to have good time, and it was
plainly evident at IL o'clock that they
hadn't been disappointed. Square dances
seemed to be in the lead as far as popularity
went. The floor managers could get more
folks out on the floor at time in square
dance, because there were numbers of staid
home. staying fellows there who hadn't been
to dance in ever 80 long, and round
dance would have been as foreign to their
pedal skill as foot racing What curious
aud molly crowd it was. One poor fellow,
whom the boys called Joe, had hard row
of stumps to surmount. 1t wasn't leap
year party, but Joe had probably gotten it
into his head that it was, for he insisted
upon allowing his partner to do oil the
leading, and only persuaded that his ideas
of the art were too abridged to ever allow
him an entry into the mystic circle of dane
ing masters, when it became necessary to
remove him from the floor. The affair net
ed over $3.50, as there we're over two hun
dred couple present.
THE ST. JOSEPH SOCIETY.
No one enjoys ball better than the Ger
mans and the German Americans. II seems
as though the poetry of dancing had been
engrafted in the nations characteristics 80
deeply that it never can be defaced. There
is no dance that the most youthful Grrman
cannot go through with. He and his older
brother may not be as expert as the polished
graduate of metropolitan dancing academy,
but the enjoyment is there even in greater
measure. He isn't like man who is afraid
of making himself ridiculous, for if he is
bow legged these bow legs trip through the
walt, in their original form, not with the
attempted conceslment of the supercilious.
Schaefers Hall was crowded on Thursday
evenino with some of those genial Germans.