The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

Episcopal pulpits of the Empire city
there can be counted half dozen elo-
quent young bachelors who, should
they ever elect TO resign their lonely
state, could undoubtedly win the most
admirable wives from among the fair
est, richest and most distinguished of
their congregations.
Runs By the Light of the Moon.
The Knickerbocker Wheeling club is
an organization of congenial young
society spirits whose activities are es-
! pecially directed to the promotion of
moonlight rides, now that summer has
set in and roads are fine. These runs,
made strictly by the light of the moon,
are governed by a set of laws that
| Draco would have considered severe,
| for, as no chaperone is taken along,
F, the young people preserve order with
! an iron hand.
The runs are conducted on scheduled
| time as binding as that of railway,
and the captain rides in the rear to see
/ that everybody keeps the proper pace.
/ To him at the outset is given the right
! to couple the cyclists-that is, pair off
/ the young people as he thinks they
should go-and his usual rule is to put
a strong and a weak rider together,
| that the former may be of assistance
| to the latter. ~
Having done this and set the club on
| their route, he and his assistant must
| keep sharp lookout that the order is
not changed, since it is the natural ten
dency of sympathetic souls, when di-
vided. to maneuver skillfully in shady
stretches of road until they can join
forces. If they can effect this under
cover of darkling spaces without being
observed, then the leader has no right
to part them, and the deserted ones
must join forces until their chance ar
rives to secure partners more TO their
liking. If, however, the leader detects
anyone trying to steal a place. and
calls out the name of the thief prompt
ly and sharply, the schemes is sup
posed to be baffied and forced to re-
turn to his original place.
The leader, therefore, is selected for
his stony heart, his eagle eye, his
searchlight lantern and his love of dis
cipline. About the summer resorts the
moonlight wheeling parties are far
more popular than dances, while PIC
mic is regarded as a poor sort of fun
compared to a progressive drive.
Given in orthodox fashion, a pro-
gressiVe drive at LenOX, Bar Harbor or
Millbrook begins with a meet of young
men in dog carts, break carts, run
abouts, whitechapels, or any traps that
carry just two persons each. The meets
are held on the driveways of the Sloan,
Stokes or Thorne country places; every
young man takes up a damSel beside
him, and down the road will string as
many as fifteen vehicles captained by
leader. and the rear brought up by
taller The first official chooses the
route and keeps the time, the second
sees to it that no man cuts them when
a charming companion and a lovelike
crossroad tempt him to venture tete-
2-.a.e.
At intervals of fifty yards the pro-
ceSsion strings out, the leader sets the
pace, and regularly every twenty min
utes his horn is blown. This is warn
ing for all the damsels to progress
Down every one in her short golf skirt
must climb and mount to the seat of
the vehicle Just before her, and SO the
game goes the leader Skillfully bring
ing his followers to halt before some
fine view, and so timing the drive and
changing the girls that when turning
into the gate where the start was made
every man has beside him the same
woman ne set out with.
luncheon of tea on the lawn awaits
the progressive travellers, and, simple
as the progress seems, ii is invariably
attended with great sport and merri-
ment-
The Bal Masque.
The feature of the summer dances is
the continued pleasure in not only the
fancy dress, but the bal maSque. Last
winter in New York at least thirty
superb fancy balls were given by such
prominent hostesses as Mrs. Abram
Hewitt, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs:
Cooper, Mrs. Benedict, Mrs. Stanford
White and others. and, finding how en-
Enthusiastically and ornamentally the
men. as we'll as women, adapted them
selves to the costumes of thenadays,
the social leaders in their summer
homes will even go so far in many IN
stances as to bring out their debutante
daughters at fancy dress balls.
For this whimsical fancy the dress
makers and dealers in theatrical prop
critics have reason to be deeply CRATE
full, and no class more so than the
makers of masks. AT the more brilliant
of the fancy dress balls the women all
prefer to go masked until supper, and
the acme of fashionable ambition at
this writing is to discover new and
becoming facial disguise.
From Paris have been ordered some
wonderfully beautiful examples of last
century masks of black, white and pink
satin with rare point lace frills falling
TO the chin, and wax masks completely
covering the face and in coloring and
feature copied from pictures of Nine.
Recamier, Thane de Poictiers or Marie
Antoinette. Women with very fine eyes
use sauZe wells efnDfOluereu III Soiu anu
arranged as the Turkish yashmak, and
then a charming mask of purely Amer
lean invention is red silk handkerchief
tied over the face, with holes cut for
mouth and nose and eyes and flaming
Zun stripes painted on just as an In
dian warrior decorates his countenance.
The fancy dress party all last winter
represented in the costuming the fash
ions of past days. but with the summer
has come in the balls to which guests
come dressed to represent insects or
birds or fish. EMILY HOLT.