The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-06
BALL ROOM MEMORIES.
HOW cARRtB CAaELEss THINKS
OF IT AFTER THE BALL.

Ot II AFTER THE BALL.
The Pleasantest Time Is Always in
Thinking About Is-Dou't Try to
Make the Recoilections Sharp, But
just Make TEEN Delightful and
Drsamy-Tnree Bottles on a Lark-A
Strange Mixture of Oppositss, and
Yet Good Time Ali around.
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NEW York, March 5.-When you go to
one of the big masked balls that figure con-
spicuously as joyful features Of New York
life, you enjoy yourself more than you
fancied that you ever could ia your life be-
fore.
II you have lived in O country town, or
even in a city which considered itself quite
fair-sized city, and yet which did not re-
joice in these delightful annual unbendings,
the experience Is such novel one that you
find yourself unable 30 think about 1t in
any clear way for at least three weeks
afterward.
And how indistinot it seems as you recall
1.-THE big ball room into which you drifted
one evening, dressed in fairy guise, to meet
thousands aud thousands of Others just as
fancifully clad and all wearing the best of
spirits. Was it not taste of fairyland such
as you do not hope to see again until next
years ball comes around In its annual re-
currencel
As you close your eyes you sec a vision OF
the queen OF the heavens with wings and a
wand and harp and palms and all the other
natural aud supernatural adornments sup
pose1 to be possessed by these creatures.
But the queen OF the heavens seems to have
forgotten her mission, for she is seated at a
little table with her wand lying on the floor
beside her, her wings dropping recklessly,
her crown awry and her harp lying on the
table in a careless fashion, while the queen
of the heavens chats laughingly with the
yellowest of Cinnamon who has dropped
down by the side of her for q social glass of
wine.
That is one Of the visions.
Look again aud you will see Snowflake,
but If it is late in the evening, poor Snow-
fake is much the worss for wear and looks
as il driving rain had splashed down on
the street and sidewalk before her, and she
had suffered from her contact with the ele-
nentg.
But Snowflake ard black domino have
reached the stage OF pleasant acquaintance
that they do not mind such trifies as disar-
ranged headgear and torn skirts, and they
sit there Laughing as gayly as though they
had always enjoyed life Of fairydom and
had never known what il was TO taste the
realities of the world. II you we're to go
further and were 70 make inquiries, you
would find that Snowflake in everyday life
is Il typewriter aud that she knows what it
is to win her way and Eight her way and
coax her way and push her way into the
hearts and into the purses of those for
whom she works +-s-.es
But tonight Snowflake is Just an airy
nd 81 a Sc RT.kk
of tomorrow with its hard push and drive,
but she is going to enjoy herself all she can
and let tomorrow take care of itself
Snowt1ake's companion with the black
domino is a man whose name is known In
the best clubs IN the town, and whose blue
blood forbids him to talk as freely about
himself as little Snowflake is talking about
herself.
If you stop, close your eyes and think for
a minute. you can hear little Snowhake's
voice again just as you heard it that night
when she had had enough champagne to
loosen her tongue and make her feel that all
the world was as delightful as it seemed to
be in that enchanting scene.
You can hear her telling the domino that
she gets up early every morning and takes
a long walk, and then a long ride In the
cars, and then trip across the bridge, and
then another long ride In the cars to get to
her work. and how. although she has been
busy for six months, she has never been In
her office later than o'clock in the morn
ing, and how she loves her work and Is
always going to do it and never, never,
never get married-no never, etc.
The black domino listens TO IL all and
smiles little under the mask which he
wears-for he IL one of the mea who goes
masked-and he says to himself that truly
he has found a little insenue and recluse
who, by some chance, he's got out into the
big world and has been taken to d scene of
what is usually forbidden gayety.
At other tables there are kings and
queens, and princes and pages, all scattered
in the most reckless fashion possible, and
miDgling with ballet dancers AMI ladies
gorgeously attired. There are striped har-
iequins that seem rival rainbows.
Perhaps, II you happened to stand near
the door, you caught glimpse of Puck as
he came and sought admission, and then you
can recall his hooking laugh as he was
turned away and was told that his costume
would not do at all
And what funny sights there were ia the
wine rooml Il was like looking upon q sue
cession of delightfully."- strange scenes, and
then trying TO realize that they were being
enacted by real flesh and blood people. At
one table you may remember that four
Spanish girls were drinking out of their
tambourines and behind them were four
knights whose chivalric duty it was to keep
the tambourines filed.
Perhaps you saw Cinderella drinking out
Of her slipper and daring her escort to do
the same, and making him earn his drink by
catching her slipper as she kicked ID from
her foot. To be quite equal in gallantry,
Cinderella had to drink out Of his helmet,
and then, as she had no prince at hand, she
had to take her knights sword, and, pre-
tending that it was her wand, she would
playfully make dashes at his mustache and
eyebrows, pretending to change them at
touch into all the fairy-like accessories
which Cinderella is supposed to have.
The funniest of all in your memory IL the
pictures which linger there of the pages of
King Arthur's time-girls every one Of
theln-dressed in tight silken waists En-
isned off with pufings and met by black
tights, parzding With typical New York
dudes. The pages had cloaks flying down
their backs and swords hanging by their
sides, and they were decorated around the
legs with jeweled carriers and most gor-
geous bows.
All these things linger in the memory and
then, as you close your eyes and Sink into
Greenland over thoughts Of the ball, your
last idea is of yourself dancing with your
noble partner 20 the glorious strains of
waltz of Waldteufel. which rises, falls and
sways, keeping exact time to the steps of
three champagne bottles that have sud-
denly materialized legs and arms and have
Joined hands in q three-cornered dance TO
close the evening.
So much for tue grand masked balls. IL
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