The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-06
ceI ticnas II appeared in the Daily Dem
onstrator. Doc. ~, 1850.
A GORGEOUS AFFAIR.
The MAGNIFICENT FLYDEcKgRs RECEIVE
Their FRIENDS.

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Their FRIENDS.
TIL. CREME DIN Ia CREME AND THE ELITE DE
ELITE PRESENT N n or THE MOTT AHiS-
TOGlATIC 0ATIfEIINnB or THE BEAsOM-
BEAUTIFUL DECORATIONS, SWEET
MUBf0 N LOVELY LADIES
IN SPLENDID dowhS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Encch Fiydecker's reception
last night was, from many standpoints, an
~unequnlIed, unqualified success, a distin-
guished succegs--it WIS certainly amusing
to nm outsider, a student OF human char
acter. The magnificent, fully ~mortgaged,
fully insured Flydecker residence, Of Blue
point avenue, WAS II huge caldron, crater
rathsr. Of moving, ogling gossiping life.
Tbs elite of tho city-the intellectual aris-
tocracy, tho mental nabobs and the social
snobobs--was there, as we'll as mere wealth
and fashion. Besides Mr.. Fiydecker's
tailor WAS there as n guest, az an Offset for
another ninety days extension, and Mrs.
F~lydecker's dressmaker was thcre-at the
basement of the door. waiting to be paid
for the magnificent dress that Mrs. Fly
decker wore. 1t was, by the way, u mar
yelous costume, consisting of q gown OF Gu
cumber green lace curtain. deliberately
trimmed with mock-gold parsleymenterie--
made open at the neck to slightly expose
her red fannel combination chest-prOtector
and corset cover-with full sleeves.
The floral decorations were profuse and
useful. They were ut every hand. An i'm
Q faro-bnnk of chrysanthemums extra
dry, and red, white and blue poker chips
ing the door. The next they observed was
Mr.. FIydecker'g store porter disguised as q
footman. The mnntelpjece and tho wall.
where a leaking water pipe had discolored
and blistered the wall paper. were hidden
beneath flowers and trailing pocket TASKS
chandelier depended floral pieces, while
portieres Of smilax hung in tho open door
ways between the spacious n gaudily fur
nished apartments.
An Italian street band disguised as a
mandolin orchestra was hidden in the par
lor floor clothes press, and discoursed some
remarkably original il not melodious mu-
SIC.
During the evening the host mysteriously
absented himself for about an hour, and on
his return it was with the greatest difficulty
that Mrs. Flydecker. with real tears in her
eyes, persuaded him not to sing a stanza
from "a Warrior Bold" Mr.. Flydecker
bedchamber fully two hours before the re-
ception was at an end. Otherwise nothing
marred the serene loneliness of the evening,
beyond Mrs. Castory's insistance on her
celebration OF tho one-thousandth reclta-
ton, on her part, of "Curfew Shall Not
Ring Tonight" In the interval between
Mrs. MISREPRESENTATION and Miss Blawnche
De Catur's singing of a ballad That she had
evidently never practiced before, che former
lady mentioned her belief that her husband
would probably soon pay another dividend
of 8 per sent on his failure last spring, and
that their marble mansion on the boulevard
would be finished early in February. Sig
nor Malta di Lucini, the Sicilian noble. who
had been invited merely because it was ex-
pected that he would perform one of his
wonderfully unique and Embarrassing i'm
presentations ON the bare-backed piano, at
the critical moment declined to exhibit,
claiming, as he did, that the FIydecker's
rented grand square WAS out of tune and
had lost its crupper strap.