The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-28
SHE WILL DANCE.
Mrs. BradIey-Martin Incensed
at the Loud Criticism
Made of Her 100000 Fancy
Dress Ball.
Says She Will Spend More
Money Than Ever.
BRITISH COMMENTS.
London News Says That Mrs.
Bradley-Martin
Evidently Doesn't Believe There
Is Amy Volcano.

New York, Jan 2S-Piqued by critic
ism Mrs. Bradley Martin is now deter
mined to spend more money than was
originally intended on the fancy dress
ball which she will give February
10 in the Waldorf hotel. After this adj
vertisement,' she said to a friend, II
fear I will have to spend more money
than had intended. This ball must be
a success, and even those who are dis
posed to find fault with it must be sat
isfied.''
Mr.. Bradley Martin has been fnvesti-
eating the subject of the ball form the
point of view of the benefciaries of the
quarter of a million dollars it will prob
ably cost. He is trying to find out if
the money which would otherwise re
main in banks, will benefit only lin
tied number of shopkeepers, already
well to do. He started by visiting
known customers. He asked whether
many orders for costumes for the ball
have been received. He was told enough
had been received to furnish work for
$50 women.
DO you mean extra empIoyes?" in
quired Mr.. Martin.
We'll it is practically that replied
the customer. I'VE have been obliged
to lay aside our regular work, which
will have to be done later on during the
dull season, so by giving these people
work now and work then, it amounts to
the same thing, for they will get just
double the wages by having two sea-
sons of work.
Mr.. Martin asked to be allowed to see
these $50 seamstresses, and said after
wards: wen, i am glad to have seen
them, for | confess all this talk about
my wife's extravaganza has made me
feel very bad. I don't mind a bit now
what is said about waste of money,
since the money finds its way into the
pockets of those who need it"
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin,
therefore, are satisfied in spite of the
asaitieisaaS 6sa~aI1ar. Eainsford-FIis lecture
has. ha d Very little effect on society.
The QuadrilIes al the ball Will be or
ganized by Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mrs. John
Jacob Astor, and Mrs. Frederick Bron-
son. Mrs. Astors quadrille will be COM
posed of young matrOns, while that of
Mrs. Bronson Will include the debu-
tantes, among whom will be Miss Bron-
son, Miss Van Allen, Miss Brooks, Miss
Churchill, and Miss Evelyn Sloane. In
this quadrille will dance Worthington
WhitehOuse, Edmond Crowinshield, Jas.
De Fulton Cutting, and H. d. Robbins.
Orders for handsome costumes are
still being given. One designed for Fred
Martin, Bradley Martins brOtherin-
law will be that of a cavalier of Louis
XII time. The debutantes who are to
dance in the quadrille arranged by Mrs.
Bronson will all wear Louis XIV. cos
tunes. Mrs. Bradley Martin has not
yet decided on her own costume. The
her guests. Those who have predicted
that she would figure as good Queen
Bess, or al least Mary Queen of Scots,
must guess again. Bradley Martin Jr-,
will have one of the finest costumes at
the ball.
Oliver H. P. Belmont has decided on
his costume and will wear a fine suit of
court armOr.Mr. Belmont has splend-
id collection of armor, and will make
fine showing in the one selected.
There are rumors here and there of
far between. Some people feel they
cannot afford to go, others are debat-
ing, but about all the invitations have
been accepted.
FXCITES COMMENT IN LONDON.
London, Jan. 2S.-The Bradley Martin
ball and the controversy it has excited
in America are being followed with in
terest here, and the papers are publish
ing comments. The liberal daily News
devotes considerable space to the topic,
saying:
american society is very old, reck-
oning it's age by its ideas. and there is
nothing more characteristic of societies
of that kind than the defiant animation
with which they dance when anybody
ventures to whisper they are on the
edge of volcano. Mr.. Bradley Martin
and his guests have no belief in the vol
cano and they are making every prepa-
ration for a good time.
Our own youngsters and altogether
more modern community would be dis
turbed by such discussion and would
double it's attentions to the east end.
There is a certain suggestiveness in
some of the costumes for which arrange
ments have already been made. There
is to be an abundance of Louis XVPs
and Marie AntOinettes. Louis, the
Well Beloved, will not be forgotten, and
it is quite conceivable some cynic may
choose to represent the monarch whose
private party for the encouragement of
trade was so rudely disturbed by the
handwriting on the wall.
Among the ladies preference will no
doubt be given to those parts that can
use of owning, as New York is said to
do a thousand millions of dollars in
precious stones if such opportunity for
showing them off is not to be turned to
the best account. The jewels alone
are enough to revive the Populist agi-
tation.
1T must not be forgotten that in the
late electoral contest in the United
States Mr. Bryan represented some
thing of almost revolutionary rage
against this state of things which pre-
walls in one section of the American
people. The Populists fade off into so
off into anarchism. Mr.. Bryan is not
a socialist, but he is with those who
want more money, even if it's present
possessors have less.
There is one of the greatest dangers
of the United States. With the positive
lust of the good things of life that
prevails among all classes nobody ac-
cepts poverty as a condition. 1t is a
hateful and shameful fnfiiction, from
which it is the business of every smart
man to find some means of escape. The