Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-21
During this weeks
sale all carpets will
be sewed without
extra charge.

comfortable among all those masks, and is
apt to retire discIeetly on the approach of a
clown or domino. but after while that feel
ing wears off and one is quite at home. 1t is
bewildering scene. Frivolous little Pierrettes
in short skirts, cooked hats and wide ruliles
darken the air. There are Pierrettes in
black tule, in white satin, in yellow velvet
pink Pierrettes and blue Pierrettes and red
Pierrettes Pierrettes in white with round
blue buttons, in yellow with black buttons, in
pink with white buttons. And they are all
charming. Then there are modest little
flower girls, powdered rocco ladies, Haunting
gypsies, white carrier pigeons, Greek ladies'
and any number of old-bespangled cupids
and butterflies and Dianas And white Pierrots
and tourists, brigands and imps, cavaliers
and savages and one beautiful white and
silver Hemdol lone of the gods of the old
Gothic mythology. AS for dominoes, there
are hundreds of blue and red and black
patches. All the members of the committee
are in yellow satin dominoes, with wide
ruffes, and cooked hats bearing the emblem
blue owl, whose eyes are covered with two
sunfowers holding pens and pencils in its
claws, while the marshals, Of whom there are
almost too many, are content with dress
coats and red silk sashes.
NOTABLE COSTUMES.
There is a tall Death, with a skull head
and flowing white drapery, who taps the
little Pierrettes on the shoulder; newspaper
lady with gigantic paper inkstand for a
hat; a photographer with camera and ALL
Englishmen with noses and whiskers and
white Stanley hats. Chimney sweeps dance
with princesses and gold-spurred cavaliers
with peasant girls. There is a mad confusion
Of gorgeous costumes, delrium Of colors,
flare of light. surging tide of masked
faces crowned by picturesque and fantastic
hats and caps surrounds one on all sides.
Serpentine confetti whizz by; It is a bewlder
ing maze Of laughing fun makers, who for one
night cast aside all cares and considerations
and become children, as only Danes can do.
Look at that clown, with one side Of his
face painted carmine and the other white.
He approaches a slender poppy with hideous
grmaces. Il guess nobody knows who you
are, Mary, l guess nobody can tell" he
whines through his nose, and laughingly the
two waltz off together. See that tall, hand
some young man, with his face painted up
instead of wearing a mask, and yellow curls
hanging around his neck, clad in the mean
gray garb of a wandering minstrel with a
lutte at his side. He is the center Of a merry
group of ladies', who are hocking to write in
his hand. He looks puzzled. knows nobody.
But all the ladies know him-he /. the
Princess Of the ballet, and the paint and
yellow bang only set off his pretty face.
But who are those two old men in long
linen busters, that pursue the little Byaderes
and Columbines with their huge butterfly
nets? They rush wildly around, creating
shrieks Of merriment when some unwary
fiower-girl gets her frizzled head into the net.
tall friar in brown cowl walks by with
gentle spring, all in white tsrlatan draped
with swallows and snowballs, leaning on his
arm. He must be saying very pleasant
things, for under the black lace of her mask
we see blushng cheeks, dimpling in rogush
smile. Well. all things are fair at a carnival
and the chaperone can't keep track Of her
glddy charges all the time.
But suddenly is heard the roll OF drum.
Down the middle Of the isle advances a
corps OF red and white fifers and drummers
led by one of the yellow dominoss and
harlequin bearing on a high pole gigantic
sunhower whose heart repr rasents the dial of
clock. The hands are seen pointing to twelve.
All that means the unmasking, Down the
long hall they go, out through the other
rooms and back again, and as they pass. the
domlnoes remove their hoods with sigh OF
relief and the fishers wipe the Precipitation
from their brows, while dainty buti,yGies
peep coquettlshly out from behind the pink