The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-27
THE CHARITY BALL.
Brilliant Scene in Which Raleigh So
ciety Was Resplendent.

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! Masks and faces!
The one serving to more fully impress
/ the beauty of the other by the witchery
of suggestion.
Romantic costumes clinging to forms
of ethereal lightness.
Music that lulled the senses into
dreamy accord with its rhythmic beat.
! Lights that fell upon changing whIrl
of kaleidoscope color.
An atmosphere that palpitated with
the sounds of buOyant life; that tingle1
with the effercescence of laghter uncOn-
I fined; that sang to the music and the
accompaniment of flying feet.
Such was the mask ball.
Somewhere, in some of the poorer
cherry echo in the cracking logs of
homes of the city, its music viii find a
hearthstones unused to warmth; its
laughter will find its way to boards
generously spread; its token of life will
find Judgment in dreary hearts.
For it was a Charity ball. Live and
let live" might well have been the motto
for the many young people who danced
away the evening at the Park so happi-
ly. and for the numbers of older people
who lent dignity to the occasion by their
sympathetic presence.
The entire lower floor and well APP
pointed dressing rooms on the second
floor of the Park Hotel were thrown
open TO the merrymakers. and never was
crowd more comfortably housed and
conveniently cared for. The scenes in
the Spacious dining room where dancing
was had, in The corridors. on the stairs,
in those hooks that couples frquent that
are more than dancers were of the
beauty of same variety that brings to
the heart of the on-looker that feelin,
of goodfellowship. of chart :y-not mean
ing to he facetious--that was the aim OF
this and the good of all those occasiousru
which young people and JOY foregather.
Beyond the primary loneliness that is
characteristic of every scene in which
Raleigh womanhood is evidenced, there
was lent to the ball the fquancy of the
mask A vision of deaphen0usly
draped from, disclosing just enough of
personality shining star-eyed 10
behind its gauZy vel was enough to
tempt the young man who held it in the
throb Of the waltz to the most enthusi-
astic cOnjectures Hucky in his ignor-
! ance he was-more lucky still did he
guess starlight. me- ~"
The.1dancing commenced shortly after
n;ne O'Clock and from then until eleven
fhe couples danced uncOgnito. At that
Nhour, masks were removed, and the man
8who hat. made love to The wrong mask
heat IN hasty exit. The dancihg con-
, tinued until late hour.
As a ball of rare beauty, of happy
elimination of skilful management-the
evening was in every way the success
that had been anticipated for it. Dr.
A lal +hn IL
his own ingenious lself.
AS a charity ball, there will this day
go out to the poor people of Raleigh
through the hands of it's devoted lady
managers a foretastei of the glad holt
7 days coming to happier homes of over Il
hundred dollars-honest as they were
freely given. AZ a9det, eae1i
n The fair sponsors of the evening, COM
posing as they do a representative class
of Raleigh's most charming and useful
matrons, tells 81 tone of what
/ will be remembered as one sof the
city's most notable social events
l. Mesdames Armistead Jones, TThos. s
Kenan, A. Q. Holiday, c.. NJ. Busbee
| Minnie III. 'Bagley, Il. NJ. Hayes, .. III
| Foster, B.. S. Skinner, Julian Timber.
lake, s. f. Telfair, G. B. McGehee
| Frank Massey, G. G. Latta, j. E
! Pogue, James Mckee, Lottie McAden
Ed. III. Lee, Sherwood Higgs, f. L.
| Bush, A. B. Andrews, Charles McKim
mon, George III. Snow, w. p. Bachelor
| NJ T. Norris, G. w. Thompson, X. s
| White, A. w. Know, j. w. Hinsdale
A j. Cooke, J. M. Turner, L. 7. Hay
| +. NJ. Simmons, r.. #. Hoke, ] E. Shep
herd. p. w. Avirett, e. L. Boykin, X
p. Battle, Jr., T. X. Bruner, J. S. G.
Carpenter, S. S. Crittenden, D. III. Alb
| bott.
The following is a list of those who
| participated in the dances, correct as
| far as was practicable for the note book
in so large crowd:
STARRY Night" Miss Rogers; LADY
of the First Empire" Miss Cameron
"Gipsy," Miss Helen Primrose; Give
Little Girls in Blue" Misses Maude Lat.
ia and Mary Seaton Hay; 'Fally," Miss
Leach; 'Red Riding Hood" Miss Janet
Stronach; milk Maid" Miss Lollie
Williams; Romeo" Miss lie Grande
Cameron; "Vialet," Miss Hal Morson
Daisy" Miss Lena Latta; Kate Green
away" Miss Florence Boylan; Lady oil
II Century," Miss Gertrude Bush; Miss
Betsy Norwood" Miss Minnie Tucker
Spanish Lady," Miss Blanche Blake
| 1amDOuFlue 0lrI, MISS Dell, NAIL
Miss Ethel Stronach; Spanish Lady,
Miss Bessie Rorsey; ''French Maid
Miss Frances Carter; Princess Ma
parxine," Miss Adelaide Snow; "Flowel
Girl" Miss Mary Jones; cinderella,
Miss Francis Hoke; Miss Ida Baker
Miss Anne Busbee; Miss McAden, OF
McAdensville; Miss Carter, of Asheville
Miss Troy, of Hendersonville; Mis-!
Katherine Haywood; Miss Katherine
Badger; Miss Sophia Busbee; Mis-
Bellamy, of Wilmington; Miss billiard
of Norfolk; Miss Dortch, of Mississippi
Messrs. e. s. Battle; VIM. Andrews
A. B. Andrews, Jr.; Will West; JOSEPH
Marshall; Geo. Graham; I'll. Decker;
Simpson; Gerald Kendrick; Hugh Ken
drick; Garland Jones, Jr.; VIM. Jones
Thos. Bush; III. w. Miller; Geo. Badger
9. w. Pritchett; V. I'll. Boyden; Altar
. Higgs; f. P. Smith; w. b. Snow; Ere,
Olds; o. H. Foster; e. Ell. Lee; f. 2
Haywood; James Briggs; ]. K. Mar
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