The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-06
GAY CARRIE CARELESS
TELLS HOW THE SUMMER MASKED
BALLS ARE CONDUCTED

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BALLS ARE CONDUCTED.
Sights that are Seen in the Cleaning
1t is Getting too Cod Now for q
Plunge-No Eice is to bs Thrown
at the Newport Weddings-Aud the
Summer Girl and the bug.
Copyright 1917
New York, Sept. 5.-As the summer
begins to draw to a close, and there is q
faint suggestion of autumn evenings, it is
becoming the popular thing to indulge in
masked balls by. way of evening amuse-
ments.
These balls are by no means the promis-
cuous affairs which the name suggests
They do not bear the most remote resem-
blance to the New York French bail, nor
are they distantly related to the Carmencita
and Otero balls. On the contrary. they are
very exclusive, high-toned and select affairs,
and only those are invited who are thor.
oughly IA sympathy and touch, so to speak,
with each other. Our set, and only our set,
receive Invitations, and on no account csn
any one who is invited take even the liberty
of bringing an extra guest.
Like most everything that is socially pop
ular In this country the idea began in Eng
land. A few of the hostesses of country
houses would invite guests, numbering a
score or more. to dress in masquerade for
an evenings frolic. The fad has come over
TO Newport, and it is MOI an uncommon
thing at either that place, at Saratoga or at
Narragansett, to receive an invitation on
IS Aali falN tod i'll.
paper, requesting you TO come IN mask for
an evening frolic.
The hostess upon these occ asions receives
without a mask, and dons one immediately
after the last guest has arrived. Under
such circumstances as these no one is
greatly deceived as TO who wears the mask,
and no very distressing complications oc-
cur.
You have been to the ordinary mask
party, of course, and so you have an idea Of
what such an affair is3 But you cannot
understand the full glory OF a Newport or
a Saratoga mask party, unless you have
really been there to see one.
Gowns are especially made for the coca
sion. They are usually Of the light and deli
cate India silk, which is such a summer
favorits. and they are provided with moods
with peaked crowns, which extend over the
head and forehead in way which suggest
the witches Of old.
The mask-and here is the funny thing
about it-ioes not conceal the features bs-
yond recognition--it is just sufficiently large
to extend in a strip across the face, covering
the nose, the temples and half Of the fore
head. Holes for the eyes are made so large
that glances can be shot from the inside Of
a mask with quite as telling an effect as
though that article were not worn. The
mask is Of the same material as the gown,
I - t. u.
will takc care to select hue that is becom-
ing to her.
II she has a red skin she will not wear a
blue mask. Instead of taat she will select
possibly n black one. or a very delicate yell
low. or even that shade Of pink that goes
we'll with red. Brown looks ever SO pretty
upon very blonde skim ard then there
are all the shad ) OF green which re so b.
coming to the fairest blondes. o, it IS very
simple. If one has any taste at all, to solect
"a shade of silk that is becoming TO the ssin.
1t il getting too cold now to plunge right
in the water, and it is likewise too cold for
wading, if a woman has proper regard for
her health. But then, you know that a
woman never does consider bealth until 1t
Is too late, and there are all sorts OF dread
full bow vows to pay.
1t is really pitiful to see so many pretty
girls go wading when the water is ever SO
far below the temperature which it ought
TO be for a woman to put her feet in it.
Next year the girl who has indulge1 in that
favored little pastime this year will have
lost some of her buoyGncy OF manner aud
elasticity Of step. But now she looks very
pretty as she steps from stone TO stone with
masculine escort to keep her from falling
and ventures, little by little, in the water,
and it comes over her white feet, and Gov
ers her delicate ankles Wating has been
popular all summer, and now 1t is even
more so.
1t is said that the ineauest people at any
of the summer resorts are TO be found at Bar
Har5or. Probably these people, if they
were elsewhere, would not be mean at all.
But Bar Harder affords such facility for a
certain Kind OF meanneSs that those who
develop the trait are not as reprehelsible n
they would be elsewhere. You SEQ at Bar
Harbor there is tow path, and lovely,
seductive place it is. Everybody goes to
walk upon the tow path; and in the gloam-
ing, oh, how many couples are seen stroll
ing along without single thought beyond
tho fact that they are WITH each other.
They have reached the safe ground of fiirta-
ton, and they are delirious with Joy.
But where does the nealness come in n
you ask. Why, just here. A few wretches
with an abnormal development for making
ether people unhappy. delight to stroll
along the tow path IN such manner that
they meet all these loving couples face 70
face, and then, with and added touch of
meauness, they seize the opportunity as
each one is passing TO stop long enough to
light cigarette, tic shoe siriug, or gaze
upon the scenery. OF course, It throws the
loving couple dreadfully out at the time,
and IL takes fully four minutes before the
stage is reached at which they were stop
ping at the time ofsthe interruption. Now,
don't you think it is really mean OF tow
path terrors to do this sort OF tnIngl
No rice has been or is TO be thrown at the
Newport weddings. Some QUE has discov-
cred that way back in the middle ages,
among the savages, it was tee custom to
throw things upon the wedding couples as
they were departing. IL was the bride who
usually received the greatest share OF these
attentions. and the most successful we'd
dings were those in which the bride was 80
showered by STICKS aud stones and sharp
missiles of all kinds that she sank exhaust
ed upon the ground In her effort TO escape
them, ana 30 was taken captive by the pur-
suing bridegroom. Later, in these same
benighted times, rice was thrown, and the
custom has come down in much milder
form to us at the present day.
It was decided as soon as this became
known that it was not the proper thing to
thus cherish relic of barbarism and so
rice throwing has fallen into desuetude.
To make wedding a little more inter
esting than the perfectly sober ceremony
warrants, and also TO carry out the frolic-
some idea which widely pervades every one
at wedding ceremonial, the more playful
spirits are letting their fancy run riot by
upholstering the bridal trunks in white
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