The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-14

Alpine country. The immense bali
room (wherc on other nights the finest
concerts in the capital are performod)
had been changed into Landscape
near Moran. Tyrol, and the festival
celebrated there was counterfeit of
that of the winners of grape buried
Moran, with gayly-dccoratc village
streets on the main floor, aud glnting
glaciers in the background. Moran
band of druumcrs und iifcrs PLAYED
the Passover march, the same which
led Andreas Hofer and his Tvroltans
into battle against the French in 1909;
md everybody was an Alpine boy or
lass for the timo beiDp. The costumes
worn by the participants were genuine,
as most of those present were members
of the Alpine club aud had used those
same "duds" before in climbing steep
paths high up i'll the llavarian or TYR
olese mountains during recent sum-
mers, and enough of the natives had
been imported from their far-nway
homes to complete the illusion. There
were a band OF yodlcrs, Il number OF.
either players, Il half dozen of expert
dancers OF the "Schuhplattl." and IL
whole score of villagers from the
Vintschgau in the Tyrol to perform
the famous "Bandel" dance around
the May pole. The wine rooms and
beer cellars were fitted mp to match,
and once past the grim barrier at the
entrance gate, where Austrian revenue
officers sat and collected tribute, the
visitor was not i'll Berlin, but in some
Alpine village, high up and away from
the busy world.
70 talk of the subscription ball at the
Royal opera house ut this late day seems
supcrHuous for this most resplendent
and aristocratic of all private balls
given occurs regularly once every year
during the carnival time. Suffice it to
say that it was more brilliant and glor-
Gus of diamonds, colors and handsome
women and stately men than ever, and
the emperor strolling up and down
among the immense crowd for upward
of an hour, with his train of glittcring
aides and flushing cuirassicrs, added
not immatcrially to the picture. For it
was IA picturc-not n ball. Although
the space given up was that of the
whole opera house, holding many thou.
sands, and although the price of admis-.
sion is purposely fixed rather high, the
pressure was SO enormous as to make
dancing quite impossible.
From this ball to those which. lust
now, engage the special attention of
the police, is quite step, but it has to
be made in order to complete the sur
vcy. There are, it is true, IL large num-
Der of decent and respectable public
bathrooms in Berlin, like the Artushof.
where the girls or wives of the small
middle classes, the mechanics and the
shopkeepers, now and then have hop
with their husbands, swcethcnrts and
relatives, where clubs or societies meet
and have good time III slow. old
fashioned way. There are cheaper
places, still wcll-behuved enough,
where the large array of servant girls
and cooks, of coachmen and gardeners,
meet and dance, where young soldiers
and old soldiers show themselves in all
their martial splendor with their best
girls But these places have not been
interfcred with by the police The
category which. of late, has been put
under police surveillance and of which
some at least have been suppressed and
others restricted, is the one where vice