St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-14
Miss Smiths Dance.

Wednesday night, after Mrs. Grundy
had satisfied herself that the fog had
not taken the crimp out of her front
hair and had given her face another
slight busting of powder, she looked
about her and said to herself, as she has
often said before, that Miss Nina Smith
has one of the prettieSt bOudOirS
of any girl in town. She told
Miss Davis she felt too old to be out
with party of such young people, and
when Mr.. Tatnall met her in the upper
hall and begged for just one waltz, she
tapped his face gayly with her fan,
called him naughty man and declared
he was making fun of her. She asked
Miss Mann confdentially if she bad
ever seen Miss Rice in anything more
becoming than that blue tulle gown, and
five minutes later said to Miss Rice that
Miss Mann, in that pretty white
striped gauze over pink silk, was quite
irresistible, and that she never knew
young woman with more pleasing voice
and charming address than she has.
Miss Margaret Hall. in blue Surah cor
sage with white lace skirt over blue;
Miss Lou Murphy in white silk; Miss
Elsie Shave in combination of blue
and white silk, trimmed with gold
paSsementerie; Miss Alice Shave in
white crepe, combined with striped
silk and pearl necklace; Miss Ing
ham in blue crepe, decOllete cOrsage,
studded with gemmed gold flowers;
Miss Undertake, in black net with
decOllete corSage; Miss Davis, in white
satin; Miss Perrin, in black tulle; Miss
Florence Fairchild, in lowered silk with
corSage bouquet of roses; Miss Kemp,
III ill frtll NIT
bouquet of roses, and Miss Fairchild, in
white crepe with diamond ornaments,
all met with the old lady's unqualified
approval. Miss Constans, she said,
looked very pretty in blue
silk bodice and white skirts, but
in strict confidence she said further.
that young lady's way of fixing her
glasses on one made one feel as if ones
hair must be tumbled, ones eyebrows
out of plumb, or as if something serious
must be the matter with one, She told
Mrs. French that if she were not too old
bird for such fine plumage she would
go to her dreSSmaker'S the next day and
order a duplicate of her blue silk and
beaded gauZe gOwn-She thought 1t was
so pretty.
When Mrs. Grundy finally went down
stairs and greeted Miss Smith she
showed in her face that she was charmed
with her hostess, and wanted to tell her
right there how well she liked her gown
of white net and satin and ask her who
it was sent her such an immense bOu-
quet of roses. As she shook hands with
Miss Helen Smith and Miss Stickney
she gave them both an affectionate
pressure of the fingers, and, begging
the license of her advanced years. said
their gowns became them wonderfully.
She encountered Mr.. Du Puy and made
a very teasing allusiOn to his approach
ing marriage, and when, later in the
evening, she met Miss Greve, she said,
significantly, some matches are made in
heaven. After the dancing commenced
she took her stand to see just who was
there, and found among the guests Mr..
and Mrs. w. +. Newell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sherman Finch, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer,
MIR. and Mrs. Ordway, Mr.. and Mrs.
French. Mr.. and Mrs. Hardenbergh, Mr.
and Mrs, Frost, Mr.. and Mrs Bryant, Mr..
and Mrs. Fulton, Mr.. and Mrs. Curry,
Helen Smith, Constans, Hammond,
Rice, Washington, Williams. Fairchild,
Murphy, Mcmillan, GotZian, Gordon,
Dean, Stickney, NJ. Dean, Hersey,
TimbeIlake, Bunker, Dawson, Beaupre,
Baker, Davis, Gilfillan. Forepaugh,
Mann, Kelly, Keogh, Smyth, Taylor,
Ruger, Scheffer, Perrin, Shaw. Auer-
bach, Cook, GIeve, Gates, Castle, Car
penter, Stevenson, Palmer; Messrs.
Cathcart, Read, Patterson, Heath, Big
Glow, Banning, Jaggard, Clay. Wiley,
Knight, Handy, Rider, Prise, McQuil-
Ian, Hastings, Gilman, Wright, P. w.
Parker, James, Griggs, Foster, Du Puy.
Williams, Robertson, OLeary, Dawson,
TatnaH, Wall, Armstrong, Spencer,
Bryant, Monfort, Elmer, jackson,
Prince, Gilbert, Candy. lngersOll, Peet,
Stone, Johnson, Powers, Farnham, Ga
lusla. Yardley, Harrington. Boyle, Otis,