St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-27
OH, WHAT A SIGHT !!
The Wild Young Spirits of the
City Revel Bolster
ously
At A TURNER HALL DANCE.
A Liberal Organization Adj
vertIsed as the Profess
sional Club
AS HOST OF THE OCCASION.
Danced Their Way Into Ash
Wednesday Without Be-
ing Aware Of 1t.
AS HOST OF THE OCCASION

There was a sound of revelry by
night within the walls of Turner
hall. And we'll there might be, for
was not 1.-The Professional club
giving a masquerade ball? The
whole club was there. 1t was dis
tinctly and entirely professional
affair, yet not exactly what one
might criticise as exclusive, except
in one respect. 1t excluded all gen
tlemen who, by force of circun1-
stances, could not obtain possession
of a card of admission costing SO
cents. A number of gentlemen were
in consequence unavoidably absent.
But the ball "came off,, notwith-
standing.
Perhaps it was little "off'' to
start with, but that is no drawback
to an institution Of this kind, for
do not many of our estimable citi-
zens condemn any and all terpsi-
chorean gyrations?
The Professional club is, as it's
name implies, liberal organization.
1t includes all sects, admitting even
lawyers, doctors, real estate agents
and railroad men. Newspaper men
are invited in order to give spe,
cial tone to the occasion. They gen
orally respond, though few of them
join in the whirling waltz, for, like
the girl in the story, they cant
Dance"
The representative OF the GLOBE
secured a front row seat in the bal
cony last night and viewed the merry
masqueraders on the floor below as
they tripped their fantastic and
other toes around the room in re-
Spouse to the inspiring strains of
Paul Kleist's orchestra. 1t was a
dizzy maze, really dizzy, for to gaze
upon the revolving mass of red, white
black and blue, queens, kings,
knaves and deuce spots, bewildered
the senses until they reeled with a
new kind Of intoXication. But let
that pass.
The costumes of the ladies were
dreams, not that they were imagin-
airy. Oh, no, but because of their
confusing variety. Some suggested
the soul Of wit, while others reached
clear down to the ankles. The rain
bow has only seven colors, but they
are only primary colors,' as Lady
Jane puts it, and they couldn't be-
gin to supply enough tossatisfy the
fair ones. There was pale blue, sky
blue, navy blue, orange yellow,
chrome yellow, just plain yellow and
famut on req from rose red to the
deepest dye of blood. Only one girl
dared to don the garb of queen.
The others were satisfied to cavort
about as princes, cavaliers, peas
ant lassieS, and-Well, some wore
comfortable mother-hubbards.
The men-well, they don't amount to
much at a ball save as dancing
partners. A great many of them, how
ever, looked well until midnight, when
| they unmasked. 1t must be confessed,
too, that some Of the ladies were deep
| Iy indebted to their masks.
1t was noticeable that the "Profes-
sional Club has no pronounced rever-
ence for that period in the church cal
endar known as Lent, for the mem
bers danced away several hours OF
Ash Wednesday without the slightest
exhibition of any symptoms Of COM
junction. ~
Just as the reporter was leaving the
| hall he overheard a fair sylph murmul
in the ear of her Arcadian lover:
"Ah, he's a big stiff, he is. He ain
got the price of two beers"