The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-05-16
Dame Folly'S Reign
LAST NIGHTS PARTY A
SUCCESS.
The Hall a Poem The Music
a Dream
The EVENT OF The SEASON.
The EVENT OF The SEASON.

What a time everybody did have last
night, The Return Leap Year party
will go down in the history OF SOFIA.
events in Wadsworth as the gayest,
brightest, most brilliant occasion Dame
Folly has ever launched in this com
munity. II is hard to enumerate the dit
ferent bright points 1t a party where all
was glitter, gorgeous costumes, the neavy
scents of dying flowers on heaving
bosoms ecstatic with the strains oi
dreamy dangerous music.
The Grand March at 80 glided off
on the delicious strains of the Nevada
University Cadets March," with its
gifted authoress, Miss tiertie Holdings
worth, presiding at the piano and Hos
kin's Reno orchestra filling the throb.
bing air with such strains as Wadsworth
seldom h~ears-more's the shame. This
music cannot receive too much praise.
Finley Cook is a whole lioste in himself
on the drums, castanetts, cymbals, etc,
and in the office OF caller, while every
other performer is al artist in his or her
line. E,
A pretty figure OF the German was
danced in the Grand March headed by
Prof. Dornberger and Miss Mamie Lane
and was a decided novelty. Floor
Director Fitzgerald and his assistants,
A. ". Macpherson, &. M. Sanderson,
II. Owen and A. F. Sisson, kept the
floor fairly hot with the flying feet OF
the dancers and no let up to the fun oc-
Cured from beginning to end. Pretty
dressing rooms had been provided for
both ladies and gentlemen, presided
over by little girls in white, who passed
lovely bouquets and the most unique
programs OF the season to all corners.
No expense had been spared to make
this the dance of the season aud the
boys surely merit all the praise they
get. .
And the hall! A bower OF sweet bloom
ing flowers, a wilderness of palms,
Z u.s. oilti9A nv viz 7uuiiity III It1R
flowers made the air soft, sweet and
dangerous as the loving sigh OF a Spanish
s~enorita and caused the old room to glow
with a beauty impossible to describe.
The walls were draped in wide ~festoons
Of white and blue, distributed between
which were daintily pinned, twined and
suspended palms, smilax, roses, ivy and
other varieties of sweet flowers and
vines. Streamers fell from the ceiling
while scores of Chinese lanteTs threw
soft, mellow CLEANS of light on fair faces,
flashing eyes and gorgeous costumes. On
the base Of the elevated band-stand-
which was of itself an ovation was the
inscription: "~1896-Leap Year Party
1904" on a background of faint blue.
The words and figures were formed Of
Gala lilies, roses, pansies and daisies.
Fair as q Paradise, indeed. looked the
old place, usually so cold and dingy
To Mr.. L. I'll. May is credit justly due
fo- the poem of beauty presented to the
delighted gazers. He was most ably
seconded both in ideas and work by such
boys as Will Coulter, Tom McKinstry,
Lonnie Apologize, Irwin Lewis, Harry
Owens and some others.
To describe the many beautiful cos
tunes OF the ladies would be beyond
our powers. Thew will furnish food for
pleasant gossip for days to come. Happy
the man who can call any OF our reignine
buds-sweetheart, our dashing matrons
wife. Wadsworth has more then ite
share Of beauties, both matrons and
buds.
The supper was served in the car
shops by kind permission of the com
pany's officials at this point, as no roou
in town could be found to secure the
Accommodations needed, and all hand,
had an opportunity to be seated at once
A rarity in the past. We can't speal
to highly Of Mrs. McCulloch's supper
To enjoy n is to always wish for tn,
next and the supper OF last night wa
meant to eclipse them all. The satisfied
verdict of all hands is a sufficient guar
antee of the lady's success.
Be pleased We young men, instigator
of the Return Leap Year dance, 70