St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-01
NUSHkA BAL MASQUE.
Delightful Ball Given Under
the Auspices OF the
Nushka'S.
List Of Who We're There and
the Costumes They
Wore.
The Fleeing Moments Of the
Old Year Appropriately
Celebrated.
An Evening Full Of Joy for
Young Society Peo-
pie.

There's an old rhyme of our chill d
hood days which declares 1.-THE lasts the
best of all the game" So it proved
with the festivities of 1891, for in all the
pleasant affairs of the year there was
none more utterly Jolly than the bal
masque of the Nushka club last night
at Lifts hall. The absence of fOrmality
that always characteriZes masquerade
ball made the affair delightful.
The hall was layishly decorated in red
and black, the club colorS. The gallery
was draped with red, and black and red
streamerS crossed the hail.. Fir trees
stood in the gallery, and the Third In
fantry orchestra played the delightful
dance music military bands always
play. On the walls were tobog-
gans and snowshoes. and above
the red and black draped throne
where the king, in the person of
Lieut. Glenn and her majesty the queen,
Mrs. A. *. Barnum, held royal court.
were the words in evergreen letters.
'NuShkas. 1SS6-1S92. A Happy New
Year."
The majority of the men wore dom
inoes of the club colors. Among the
costumes of
The Maskers Were:
Choir boys. Miss Sturgis, Mrs Lane K
Stone
Indians in war paint. Freeman Ingerson,
W. N Armstrong
Kate Greenway gown of blue. Mabel Horn.
Swiss peasant Miss Armstrong.
Martha Washington IN yellow satin, Mrs.
Milton Griggs.
Louis XIV courtiers, W. c. Reed, James
Armstrong.
Matador, w. S. Morton.
Bundle bee. Miss Lamborn.
East Indian white duck dinner dress NJ. j.
Boyle.
Swiss costume, Dave Morrison.
Red dominoes, l.. K. Stone. Sam Gilbert.
Reporter i'll cape coat and derby hat, Mrs.
Gardner Moore
Red Domino Mrs W. H. Lightner, Mr. and
low. Ben Hodge. Lieut.. Brown.
Dress of 1880, Miss Minna Wanzer.
Night, Miss Hand.
La TOsca, Miss Fiandrau.
japanese. Miss Robbins
Spanish costume, Miss Rodman.
Greenaway school girls Miss Timberlake,
Miss Stephenson.
Red domino Archie Wright Dan Hand
Wallace Winter.
Red domino. Miss Claggett Miss Day.
Audrey, Miss Julia Stephenson.
Folly in red, Miss Minnie Taylor.
Colonial dress, Mrs. Ordway
Scool girl, Miss Mcclellan.
Red Riding Hood, Miss Minnie Timberlake.
Ingenue, Miss Florence Robbins.
Colonial dresss. Miss Bend.
Swiss peasant, Miss Spaulding
Red domino, Mrs. Archie McLaren. Miss
Mitchell, OF Winona, Mrs. II. T. Drake.
White owl, Mrs. John Q. Adams.
Green empire gown, Miss Smyth.
French peasant, Miss Wheelock.
Spanish senorita. Miss Winter.
Puritan maid, Miss Emily Robbins.
Red domino, Mrs. Maxneld, Misses Gil
fllan. Miss Curtis.
Red domino, Horace Bigelow.
Flower girl Miss Evelyn Moves.
Red dOminOS, Miss Mason and Miss Kent
OF Fort Smelling: Mrs. Col Stowell. of Du-
luth; Miss Margaret Hall. Mr.. and Mrs. Cass
Gilbert, John H. MacBurnes, Miss Blakeley.
Miss Senkler. Miss Winsiow, Miss Blakeley
Juliet Miss Julia Mcclellan.
In the gallery were Col. and Mrs. Lamborn
Mr.: and Mrs: George Finch. Mrs, Hodge, Mr..
and Mrs. u. X. Noyes. Mrs. Weatherby.
Burying the Old Year.
Before IL O'clock masks had disap-
peared one by one, and dOminoes had
been slipped off, revealing pretty ball
midnight. as the first strokes of the
hour rang out, out went the
lights, and in the dim funeral
rays of a calcium light, while the or
chestra played a dirge, in came four
clowns, carrying a green grave. Two
grave diggers followed, and when the
resting place was ready and waiting,
marching slowly came the funeral pro-
cession, headed by priest in brown
and figure in red with book. Eight
cen hundred and ninety-one came
in on bier, borne by four
white-sheeted pall-bearers. He was
dressed in the costume made
famous by the Iamented Mr. McGinty.
The tombstone brought up the rear. On
it were tine legends, ''ln memory OF the
old year, 1891, who died at midnight of
Dec. 81 of old age and abuse. Though
lost to sight to memory dear" The
pallbearers each took from the bier a
glass of beer and drank to the
memory of the departed. Then,
after wild dance by the
four bearers of the dead 1891,
was slapped into the grave, the lid shut
and grave and all carried out. The
Nushka yell was given, and then pale
light shone on the curtains back of the
throne, which parted slowly, disclosing
an immense pearl oyster shell. Slowly
the two halves of the shell opened, dis
closing the lovely pearl 1892 within, in
the person of Miss Finch, who was
gowned in siIvery white gauZe. Thus
was 1891 consigned to eternal rest, and
1892 welcomed.
There was dancing again otter the
ceremonies, and supper was served.
BANQUET TO HILL.