El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-01
A PANORAMA
OF SPLENDOR
Dancers And Spectators De-
lighted Over the Thanks.
giving Eve Ball
Ell PASO LOOKED ITS BEST

EEL PAsO LOOKED ITS BEST
Richly 6oWned Women: And Hand
someIy Dressed Men-SOme
picturesque Costumes - The
German a Very Pretty Sight
The Attendance Large
| Ell Paso has never had q more bril-
liant affair shan was the Thanksgiving
eve dance, and the club women of FL
Paso are to be congratulated and given
hearty thanks for having made the
dance possible. The evening was q
com plete success frem the first strains
of the grand march to the last chords
of the ''Home. Sweet Home" waltz.
Dancers land spectators both en-
joyed it thoroughly. Ell Paso looked
| its best The men in costume and the
| men in the german and in fact the en-
tire masculine contingent, never look
ed hsndsomer. AS for the ladies, q
costume ball gives 9 woman every pos
sible chance to look her prettiest.
What with her choice of
costumes, from long queenly trains to
the short tiukling skirts of gypsy
girl; from powder aud patches, pan
niers and lace to spangled hair braids.
curls or crowns; what with giving
glimpses of her white shoulders or but
toning herself up in the primmest of
Puritan frocks, as queen or peasant
flower of the fields, or star of the
night-whatever suits her particular
style of beauty and her particular
charms ofmind, she may assume then
if eveA 1t is no wonder then that Ell
Paso's danes Were stately in Colonial
brocades and her pretty girls prettier
than ever in their faaeiful curls and
ribbons.
There were Colonial danes and
gypsy girls, Marguerite, aud Queen
Louise, and q little daisy from the
fields wandered in. There was an
oriental dancing girl and little maid
from Naples, queens and princesses,
and one in quaint silk frock with
flowing sleeves, kerchtef, and
powdered hair, who might have
stepped from the frame OF an old time
portrait.
Some of the men were in costume
also, courtiers in velvet breeches and
silk coats aud powdered queues, Co.
lOnial squire or two, and Turk: all of
the men who danced in the German
wore powdered hair and shirt frills.
These additions to the usual evening
costume made them very pictu' esque.
The ball room was a panorama of
splendor, a fantasy of color ever chang
ing as the dancers swayed and whirled
about. The decorations were appro-
pirate. United States, Texas AMI
Mexican flags we're draped all about,
and long reeds were fastened in q
graceful frieze along the walls. The
balconies overhauging the room we're
crowded with watching spectstors dur
ing the evening.
THE GRAND MARCH,
The grand march took place shortly
after nine o'clock Judge Fslvey with
Coles Cole w oeie' fair ie and To- lovely Mr in
q frock of flmy stuff embroidered with
jet, with a star in her hair and dis-
monds In her corsage. She represented
Night SO gracefully in the trailing
clouds of her dress and the shining
star in her hair that it Is no wonder
the prize for the attractiveness of her
costume.
Judge Falvey is not content with win
ming renown as a lawyer but must step
in and win a prize for graceful dancing.
The judge led the grand march with
Mrs. Coles and after wards danced in
the mfnuet with lis daughter and
showed his skill and grace in both
THE GERMAN.
The german was very pretty sight. |
The difficul6 figures were we'll 'execut- |
scarf figure being a graceful |
md dancing about. The Dewey figure |
vas Jolly one-but bit difficult to
larry out in the crowded room. The
iancers carried flags and pistols-but
someone had >mischievously discharg-
I'd all of the caps, SO at the moment
when there should have been the re-
bort of many toy pistols there was only
! little click and then a laugh from the
Iancers. The May pole was the next
igure and the minuet the last. The
musicians could not play the minuet
exactly right and it was difficult for
he dancers to step to it correctly, but
never theless the on-lookers en- joyed
he stepDings and archiugs, the deep
lows and slow sweep of trailing skirts.
The dancers of the german have been
old SO often that it is no use to repeat
Who they we're except that Mics Lena
Talvey had to take Miss Florence
But she managed her long skirts very
veil. 1t was difficult to recognize the
chool girl in powdered hair and long
kirts.
SOME OF THE COSTUMES.
Mrs. q. S. Stewart who danced in
he minuet wore an old-time frock of
oft-hued yellow brocsde and lace and
diamonds at the throat. The frock
lad been her mothers and was very
usint and becoming.
Miss Conception Cuaron who re-
'resentsd old Mexico in the dance
Vore a colonial costume, yellow petit