The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-12
SHY LITTLE NB|IE MICE
BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT FOR THE
CHAPPIES AT NEW YORK
CHORUS GIRLS BALL
ANKLES WERE NOT IN SIGHT
Vigilance Committee of Three De-
termined Young Women Sternly
Suppressed Any Approach to
UnmaidenIy ImprOpriety.

NEW YORK, March 11.-IeXington
avenue, near Grand Central Palace pre-
scented a gay appearance last Thursday
night. Up the sidewalk out of the sur,
rounding darkness into the blaze OF the
electric lights OF the palace moved a
continuous procession of "chappies,"
young and old, in evening dress and
opera hats, and with an air Of eXpeCtant
enjoyment Up to the curb drove cab
after cab and deposited similarly clad
passengers, and still more stepped into
the circle of illumination from cable car
after cable car, which rushed up clang-
lug and crowded, and glided away SILENT
ly and empty Whichever way they
came. they all had but one goal, and one
after another they were swallowed up
by the folding doors of the brilliantly
lighted foyer CT the palace. They all
bought hat checks at 81 apiece from two
attractive young women, and then they
were ushered into the hall, where the
Benevolent Order of White Mice had ar
ranged to give it's first grand ball.
A few hours later a procession OF
grumbling, disconsolate chappies emers-
cd from the doors through which they
had entered with such pleasant antici-
patton.
"Weahlly, OF fellah, nevah thought
chorus girls could be SO doocidly duh,
uOnClerhHOWs IGIIlelJhSN OilS VI CAlC
chappies to another with a yawn.
But the White Mice ball was success
in spite of the disappointment of those
who had come to it in the hope of see
ing real, naughty chorus girls drinking
champagne out of slippers and executing
all kinds of high steps and kicks, or
who expected to be tickled with such
display of uproarious hilartty as is so
frequently depicted in certain Illustrated
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girl life Even If those who antipicated
no such doings had not enjoyed them
selves, as they evidently did, the bah
would have been q success in demons
trating that the common conception or
chorus girls is not exactly correct.
The credit for the success of the affair
is due in large measure to self-con-
stituted viligance committee of three Of
the White Mice: Miss Anna Black, the
president; Miss Florence Rockefeller
King the secretary, and Miss Rita Dean
the ex-president. Whenever any one of
these discovered In some frivolously In
clined mouse a tendency to break the
etiquette of society by indulging in a
cigarette or in a dance ster not general
ly recognized as correct, Sbo would I'M
mediately call on the other two, and arm
In arm they would descend on the Of
fender and calmly but firmly insist on an
not, however, meet with much trouble.
Only two girls attempted to smoke cigar
cites during the evening, and only one
dancer displayed more of her ankle than
would be in good form at an assembly
dance.
In this case-it happened early In tho
eVening-about midnight-and before the
grand march was started-the young wo-
man actually showed three inches Of
stocking above the ankle This created
a sensation among the wicked chappies,
whose shirt fronts Immediately formed
a wall around the dancing floor while
they stood in astonished admiration. Up
in box a party of Wall street men tried
to put little life into what they. con-
sidered a dull event by opening two
champagne bottles every ten minutes
The sharp eye of one of the vigilance
committee noticed their antics, and few
minutes later the box was empty. In