The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-25
REQELRY And ROUGE
THE BALL GIVEN BY "a CERTAIN
THREE ALL THAT WAS
PREDICTED.
POLICE MADE NO PROTEST,
BECAUSE 1T HAD RECEIVED THE
SANCTION OF MAYOR DORIAN
HIHIsELF.
LIQUOR FLOWED LIKE WATER,
And as the Night Wore Away 1t
Resolved Itself Almost Into
BedIam.
LIQUOR FLOWED LIKE WATER,

Revelry's choicest paeans were sung
last night at Mozart hall in the name
of Paris. The French ball, that pc
culiar, occasional, exclusive, yet never
recherche commingling of the good and
the bad; of the strata of the man about
town and that bon vivant femininity
of whom it is not deemed polite to
speak in the best society, was held at
Mozart hall last night. It was a sin
gular occasion of festivity this, con-
and yet an occasion when few per
sons would desire to see printed:
Among those present were"
Such an affair as that never has any
sponsors-publicly For a month the
word has been passed around from
mouth to mouth:
Have you seen it?"
"What2"
The bid to the French ball"
mo"
Want one?"
This last. oh, so secretly.
Then, If an affirmative answer was
received, there was produced an invi-
tation to a select party to be given by
"a Certain Three" All the men who
were wanted got them, and all the
women who the committee thought
would come received them.
A select party from the sister city
were going to charter a special car
on the interurban, and the diamonds
that were to be on that car alone
would mount its precious load into
tens Of thousands of dollars. Duluth
too, was to send her quota of beauty
and Of gallantry and of rouge and yell
low hair to grace this festive occasion
Then, as another inducement to draw
victims into the whirl, no one would
be required to unmask. Care-free hu-
mainly could while away dull care,
amid ever contagious gayety, and this
was the inducement that was to bring
many.
Admission to the floor was only for
those en- masque, while the less
fortunate were sent to the gallery. The
grand march was set for II o'clock, but
long before that hour carriages ratified
through those sections of the city
where usually everything is aglow with
light. Last night the mansions were
lonely as the tomb, the society that
turns night into day making merry
as the guests Of "a certain three"
The police made no protest. Many
Of them were there. Some in uniform,
others not. The fact that Pompelrs
fate brought down Vesuvius did not
frighten the police; the fate Of Sodom
and Gomorrah they needed not. Per-
haps they had a presentiment that 1t
would be only Tyre-som And then
hadn't Mayor Doran said it was all
right
How do you like it?" asked one
looker-on Of a friend
Pretty SLOW"
How many drinks have you had?"
cone"
Get some more. i've had four. I
like it pretty well now"
And with the alcoholic inspiration
that came from frequent hurryIngs
down stairs came more vivacity, the
stately march gave way to the spright-
ly minuet, the swirling waltz later on
to the rafting can-can.
There were only thirty-two couples
in the grand march. It was led by the
major and tall willowy young
woman gowned In pink above whose
domino, a garland of roses might have
indicated June, spring or possibly
January this year. Following came
male with mountainous maiden, at
tired in gown with decidedly decol-
lete cut, and a prominent mayorality
candidate looked down from the gall