Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-27

putting sign up in the room set aside for
the mems hats and coats saying: "Smok-
ing positively prohibited" Fortunately,
one of the offenders married her daughter,
and she gives nc more large parties now.
After the Ball u Over.
/ Just think of the condition of house af-
ter big entertainment. The kitchen is up
set, the dining room is in confusion and tine
parlors are a wreck. The women who came
have left gloves and fans behind and the
men have left walking sticks or umbrellas.
Then there is that invariabls brace of men
who have unwittingly exchanged hats. The
man who got the poorest hat Keeps sending
around to your house to know whether the
ether man has left the hat ne took You
feel some sort of responsibility I'm the mat
ter. and worried. 1t took a month to
plan your party; it took week to get the
house ready for ii, and ii takes another
week to get the house back into a habitable
conCition.
But the end is not yet, for you find that
all the people whom you did not invite are
your enemies for life. II your list of ac-
quaintances is large and your house is not
of p5latial proportions. you were obliged to
leave a number of people out N order that
there might be room for a suitable number
. OF people to get in, but you have offended
those whom you did not ask. Here comes
in the great advantage of giving a tea. No
matter how Inadequate for the tDrong your
quarters may be, you ask everybody II
they cannot all be comfortable they cannot
they all get in and fare alike.
Golf is the Thing.
But before the tea and evening ball season
begins there is always a preference for
those amusements which keep. one out OF
doors. To say nothing of tennis, which
still holds its own, and horseback riding.
which will always be preferred to bicycling
by some people, there is now rising into
favor the game of golf.
1t has taken quite hold on the American
mind and Will unquestionably become more
popular in the future. 1t possesses the
great advantage of being easy to learn,
and young and old can play IL, for IL re-
quires only limited amount of exertion.
Yet 1t involves good deal OF steady ex-
ercise, and being played in the open air
is conducive to health. 1t has been popular
for years in England and the colonies. but
is new with US. 1t originated in Scotland,
and is so old that ii would puzzle any one
to tell it's origin.
In 1891 a year before America was dis
covered, it was prohibited by an act of the
Scottish parliament, which ran thus: THAT
in no place of the realme THAR be usit feet
bales, golf, other sic unprofitabil
SPORTS" Nevertheless, the game is a per-
fectly innocent one. II requires quite
extensive stretch of ground, in which holes
of about four inches in diameter are sunk
one hundred to five hundred yards apart.
The object is TO drive a small gutta percha
ball from one hole into another, and the
person who makes the circuit of all the
holes with the fewest number Of strokes
wins the game. The club used is not uE-
like the Skinny hockey stick. There is
only one objection to golf and that is that
II requires large area of space. There is,
however, already one golf club in WASH
ington, and there is every reason for sup
posing that there viii be others started
before long.
For people who cannot ride a bicycle and
who have no place for playing golf, there
remains the recreation of walking, which,
happily, continues to be fashionable and
is perhaps the most satisfactory amusement
of all.