The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07
A GREAT FUNCTION.
Something About the Grand Ball
Mrs. Bradley-M Martin Is to Give at
the Waldorf This Week.

New York, Feb 6-The fancy dress ball
TO be given next Wednesday evening by
Mrs. Bradley-Martin promises to be the
most dazzling function of the whole
season.
TheWaldorf has been chosen as the
scene of the festivities. and the costumes
| are to be selected from prints and fash
| ion plates of the 18th, 18th and 18th CEN
cavaliers will be attired in the picturesque
costumes of all times and chimes. Her
grace of Devonshire will appear to have
stepped freshly from Gainsboroughs can
| vas and the Princess de Lamballe will
be fascinating to view in white-fowered
brocaGe.
Di Vernon in a riding dress of the
early part of the 18th century-green
velvet with much gold trimmings. large
hat and dropping feather. A Louis XIV
| cavalier will be Respondent in a waist
! of plum and straw color. with plum
| colored velvet breeches and yellow satin
/ shoes. But most remarkable will be the
old-time head dresses which will be worn
old prints have been ranSacked for
models and hair dressed a la petite pals
SADIE. cabriolet or porcupine style is going
to be much in evidence.
One, pretty damsel. will appear with
the ''postchaise" headdress, or with her
couture, representing landscape, a
garden or forest, and the doors of the
Waldorf may have to be enlarged to ac-
commodate the guests
One of the most remarkable head
dresses ever known was the steeple head
dress or inverted tin horn it is still
Worn in some parts of Normandy. The
horn IS black, with a gold ornament at
one side; at the summit is attached a
long. thin, white veil, which falls over
back. and q veil attached to the front
of the horn falls to the chin. Some
beauty is certain to choose this to set off
her charms.
Thus much for costumes. AS to decora-
tons two bands of music. flowers and a
trickling fountain will be among the
features of this sumptuous entertain
ment. The drawing room. in which Mrs.
BradleyMartin viii receive will be gar
landed with red roses; the open fire
place banked with Doinsettas. a curtain
or roses hanging over the mirror. The
ball room will be garlanded with pink
and white roses, the candelabra brackets
hung with wreaths and the large mirror
surrounded with q bower of flowers.
Back of p screen of trellised ivy, hung
with growing orchids, the orchestras will
be stationed.
One charming feature will be the huge
balls of roses, hanging between every
room and DaSsageway- Among the CO.
tillon favors will be dresden china orna-
ments. directoire canes. baskets of bon
bons. fans with clusters of flowers at
tached. broad sashes. orders and shep-
herd crooks.
1t is said that the torch dance, in
which every cavalier carries tall
lighted taper, will be the grand finale.
Some charming innovation can GER
tainly be expected when the Bradley
Martins are the hosts
A LOOK BACKWARD.
Something unique characterizes all
their entertainments.
The first one they ever gave in New
Yorl.-and not so very long agO-waS ar
ranged on scale of unprecedented mag
n;fcence- A thousand persons received
invitations for a reception, given on
New Years and nearly 1000 attended.
There was no way of keeping out those
who had not been bidden and great
number of young men. and some old
ones. too, for that matter, who knew this,
and had good clothes boldly marched into
the handsome house, ate of the choice
via-dS and drank of the choice wines.
But, alas, although the Bradley Martins
did not seem TO know it, New Years day
receptions had already come to be re-
bers of the smart set. Thus they
ANONYMOUSLY failed in trying to squeeze
through the outer portals into the
smiling and promised land of society"
These doors are kept so tightly closed
that all kinds of moral and mental gym
naSt;cS are required before ambitious
spirits can get. from the outside TO the
inside So the following year they tried
a new line of attack and won. They went
to Scotland and rented Il moor from
poverty-stricken highland lord. They in
vited him and his relatives and friends to
accept their hospitality for the entire
season They daZzled their guests with
the magnificence of their expenditures
which became famous throughout the
United Kingdom, and when they re-
turned to New York their past social in
eligibility had been completely forgotten
But these are only "reminiscences. and
the Bradley Martins position in society
is now cutie as firmly fixed as that Of
other members of the charmed circle of
$50. DIANA CROSSWAYS.