The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-25

reserve for future picking to pieces, because
Mrs Bradley-Martins ball is 10 be the
hugest thing ever given here.
Artists, costumers and print sellers are
being called on for advice old books and
plates are being dug up. and the curios of
the art museums are being inspected for
ideas of the dresses worn by the great peo-
pie of the sixteenth. seventeenth and eigh-
teenth centuries. the costumes of which are
de rigeur." Cinderellas and peasant girls
will be out of place and the old standby
dress suits will not be admitted. so men and
women must wear costumes appropriate TO
the period mentioned. Costume quadrilles
are being arranged by Mrs. John Jacob AS
tor. Mrs. Ogden Mills and other well-known
women. Many suppers will be given after
sent a gay appearance with grotesque and
beautiful figures driving through IT,
THE VANDERBILT BALL
1t has been nearly ten years since any
thing of the kind has been attempted here.
the ball st the Academy of Design and the
famous Vanderbilt ball being the nearest
approaches TO the contemplated one, and in
their day they were thought to be sure
enough balls. Especially did the then Mrs.
w. X. Vanderbilt think hers was, as it cost
$3.50 900 to host and guests. One thousand
invitations, costing s. each, were issued !;
the Marble House was refitted at a cost of
$50. .000 and Mrs. Vanderbilts gown, that of
a Venetian princess is said TO have cost
$4,000 1t was white and yellow shading
brocade embroidered in pure gold lace
This gown. with the crown and jewels she
wore. were estimated TO have cost $250.0O0
Mr.. w. Il. dressed as the Duke de Guise
wore jewels worth 100000. and paid such
marked attention TO Lady Vaudeville that
the goSSipS have been talking ever since.
All the guests were dressed 10 an extrava-
CANT degree, and Pat Gilmore directed
the two orchestras which played while the
called the grand ball of Mrs.
Brevoort in her Great Jones-street
house in 1910. just that did the one given
by Nine. Brugieres in Bowling Green in
1S23-these mark the zenith of epochs in
society here-but it's day has run and sue
The entire ballroom suite of the Waldorf
has been engaged, as we'll as the entire
floor above. All the attendants will be cos
TUNED in the livery OF the Louis XIV pc
riod, and the palatial Waldorf will be trans
formed into an even more gorgeous palace.
The invitations are to be issued under the
direction OF a firm of women who make
their living by caring for and scrutinizing
the list OF eligfbles.
Those invited TO the ball think it all right,
believing person has right 10 spend her
money she pleases, and are belaboring
a good dominic for his pains. Just what
old Isaac Sherman, who made the money
at the cooper's bench up in Troy, would
Say If he could see what his daughter is
arranging, might not look well in print,
hereabouts he did not have countess for
a daughter. but Mrs. Bradley Martin has
and the mother OF the Countess of Craven
thinks she has rights with which the rabble
must not meddle. Some OF the rectors OF
aristocratic churches say they have never
seen any evidence of strife between the
classes and the masses and deride the Rev.
DR.. Rainsford.