Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-03-06
AT LADIES' HALL.
The Students OF Alma College
In Costume.


an icipation and reallZations at the
College on the hill. Nearly all the
students gathered AT the Ladies Hall
to enjoy the Costume party which has
furnished theme for talk and AN
impetus TO needles for weeks past.
Quite Il number had prepared their
costumes at considerable expense.
others, no less pleasing to look upon
perhaps. had gathered here little and
there some more and from the cleaning
reproduced an historical character, d
literary fancy, or-or something OF
which they quite likely were not real
certain themselves. Early in the
evening those in costume THAT is other
than ordinary tell in line and lead by
the pioneer Captain Of the Cadets, Ira
Hatch, who happened up from Lansing
very appropriately an dvery mysterious
ly and Bessy Mclean, daintily decked
out as shepherdess and carrying
genuine crook from Scotland, proceeded
on a grand match. Of course they
were mixed up but that made no diff
ference, aud from the turmoil we caught
a few glimpses. There was Eply, full
of German irregular verbs and bearing
a marked resemblance, as an Oxford
fellow, to Miss Inglis as Shakespeare
Portia, possibly the verbs caused the
similarity, and possibly it was because
Por.ia once played tue fellow" Lucy
Plum seemed to have taken her Analyti-
cal Geometry externally, for very
marked" traces Of it covered her white
gown, with almost mathematical accu-
racy. Gard. Hunting represented Ben
IIur, if Ben had only lived in less
tropical cline 1t might have been more
pleasant wearing it but could have been
no more pleasing. In an early part OF
the evening Monroe seemed to enjoy
the company of girl whom he deserted
later when she proved TO be Frank
Cuddebeck and found that his character
as Jolly tar matched very well with
Nancy zee. rs Miss Mackey represented
her. Nancy was An excellent Nancy,
! there's no mistake about that. Mabl.
Taylor was Morning and was very
pretty. A companion piece would bt
Night, which Edith Jenny represented
but in accord with nature they were
not constant companions. Josephine
Hodges portrayed the mortalized Juno
e so far as exuernals were concerned bul
repudiates some of the God Queen
: traits. Estuer Marsh's dress had frogs
!. cat tails and snakes on 1t and w
D. thought she represented swamp, bu
she insisted that it was Marsh. Horace
!, Greedy WAS there. He had just conn
g west; and rejuvenated, resembled Ire
land quite strongly. The only grea
differance is that Greedy wasn't mucl
y of mathematitimcan and Ireland is
= Minnie Ardis looked like a milkmai
in picture, you know they arn't ey
pected to bring about any results, bu
are always nobby.' May Taylor wa
: It. Elisabeth of Hungary. Her Car
n was cracker, representing the aims c
It. the saint. Doughty and Miss Edward
were an old fashioned boy and (hi'
-lgirl. That pronoun don't properly bt
long there but we just threw 1t II
Pratt as Cycl1pedia WAS in perfec
character with himself, while Curti
- smiles marked him rs no briggsnd n
w though he wore very tasty costum
representing the Italian, Jacopo, {
something like that, who bore thatrPl
utation Marguerite Rae yepreseptt
that flower very appropriately Berth
p Stevens was a Japanese lady. viii
w Monroe called himself All Ling, su
,. posed TO be Chinese, and Mel. Huntir
;" was our old student KAHN. Cloths
~ was policeman but proved unable
%" quiet the spring poetess, Mary Huntin
No one kept conciousness througho
the entire recital of her production
Our knowledge. Ray Turck WAS Ma
shal Ney. He came In at the rig
! time but failed TO come out then,
+ very slight iregularity. Matte Schn'
i Ter made .'rattlihg" gypsy for she hi
tymbals. Clara Booth WAS spark III
ice maid and Mable Anderson brig
snow queen. Estella Jenny play
Maud Muller and Elnora Conover, 81
norita Charlotta One needs no de
cription and the other we can't descrt
m They were both very pretty thou
Tx very different. Annie Thomas rep
III sented a mail carrier in the year t.
i. thousand or more, when they had th'
Fill rights. Miss dills wss st. Cecilia, I
e. patron saint of music. She was
III right kind of saint for when s
. furnished music for the grand mar
1t was marching through Georgia
Miss Dunlap was Lady Madison, M
Cook l. adv Charlotte and Miss Boo