St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-15
Prison Walls Will Soon Sur
ound a Flippant
Fopger.
Pummeled His Cook Because
His Boat Was
Sold.

Scarlet women and some whose origi-
nal wilderness has not deepened beyond
delicate pink, were the bellies OF last
nights masquerade ball at the New
market. Professional gamblers, barten-
ders aud blacklegs constituted the male
part of the assemblage. Here and there
were young girls, many of them not
over fifteen years old. reveling with all
the innocence of their tender years. i'll
the boisterous excitement. .Oifica boys.
young men about town, Inhabitants OF
the gilded houses of sin on Washington
street, beer-slingers and boxwarmers
from the variety theaters danced
side by side with many girls
whose presence there could not be said
to arise from anything but ignorance OF
the surroundings. For undoubtedly
there were many pure and virtuouS girls
present, but their presence was a
perilouS step towards the brink OF the
awful abyss of rain in which the great
majority of the masquers have wallowed
for years. The air was redOlent with
musk and patchouIi, mingled with the
smell of perspiratlen and foul cigar
smoke. For the men smoked even
when they were dancing, and many OF
them increased the slipperiness OF the
well-waXed -four by copious eXpectora-
ton of tobacco juice.
Entering Market hall, the scene was
bewildering. King Henry VIII.
marched arm: in arm with a fat
woman clad in pink tights and
long pink velvet coat, opening Ill
front nearly up to the waist, and re-
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Girls dressed as convicts, bootbacks
and White Caps whirled around in the
arms of devils, dudes, toughs and
foreign princes. One man in an out
landish costume, with long red hairs
and whiskers, amused himself by yell
ing and shouting at every possible OPP
portunity. Occasionally the sound of
the bones and hand-clapning attracted
crowd to some corner where
.chippy'; danced the can-can, fellow
whistling johnny. git a gun" as an
accompaniment. Now and then fe-
male voice would screech Don't you
get too fresh!" announcing that some
tough was taking liberties with
her. Some of them invited liberties,
not only by the sparsenesS of their cos
tuning, but by their actions. Men and
women Rugged and kissed each other
just as if they had been all alone. In
Short. the ball was about the toughest
kind of an affair, and if had been de-
signed as an advertisement of the gor
geous palaces of prostitution under the
hill it could not have been a greater sue
cess. But the question that struck
many of the spectators with great force
was: "DoeS your mother know you're
out?' If the mothers of many of the
boys and girls could only have seen them
they would not have remained there
long. When the time for unmaSking
came it was horrible to see young and
innocent girls stand up and receive
prizes alongside Of the madams of
houses of ill-fame. -. - . $50,
Some of the'costulnes were really ele-
giant, while others. were intensely ridic-
ulous and laughable. Four young
women maSqueraded as White Caps.
and received second prize for truly
comical get-up. One notorious woman
of the town looked very pretty (before
she removed her mask as bootblack,
dressed in a black and yellow jersey
and tight corduroy pants with scarlet
patch on the seat. Mephistoph-
eles was there in scarlet, with
black horns, and occasionally shot
fire into the air, much to the
CONSERVATION Of his partner. The clown
and wild irishman, fat boy and dilapi-
dated dude, queen and coutesan, cook
and courtier, prince and policeman. ali
were there. Silks. SatinS, rags, sheets,
velvets and corduroys. covered man and
woman in such DISCUSSES that it was
difficnlt tn fell one from the other