The sun., 1901-02-16
FRIDAY
NIGHT DANCE
Best Dance Of All During Season
In Century Club.
YOUNG MRS. GRUNDY CHAT
Interesting Faces and Pretty Gowns
Amid "Lot of Little Pink Noun
tains"-Social Doings Of
q Week.
YOUNG MRS. GRUNDY CHAT

there was some snow and golden clouds 4
and fruit trees all covered with blue I
and white flowers. There were paper
lanterns Of all forms and colors and there
was Il river in the background A rivel C
of impossible blue, the banks of which I
were studded with symmetrical trees
and lanterns. The music begins to play
and Peirrot enters. He is all dressed
IN white. From the other side of the
stage in dances Columbine. She ls
dressed like modern ballet dancer.
:" DO you love me- said pierrot.
Unto Madness" replies Columbine.
",rhey step to the front and dance;
then whole rows of fluffy, white tulle
skirts, and golden wands and legs and
pink tleshlings dance madly about the
stage The music grows SO fast and
furious that the leader of the orchestra |
mops his brow in his excitement and
then the dancers seem to grow tired. |
The music grows DINNER and DINNER |
and Columbine Peirrot fades away into
the background, and the whole painted |
scene takes on a gray hue through which |
comes slanting rays of dull, rich colors, |
as though from stained glass. Inc
violns cease and the peal Of an organ
is neafu ana Tue slralnS VI ooiS"
dirge fall on the ear.
8" Here is your coffee, madam
"Oh, it is you is it Betty? l must
have been dreaming, dreaming OF the
dance last evening and dreaming that
the curtain soon is to fall and put an
end to Vanity Fairs gaiety.
! 1T was the best dance of all, Betty,
| ths third Friday Night Dance. Every
body seemed to be in the gayest OF
spirits and everybody was there. l
think l never saw SO many pretty girls
all at once, You know Mrs. Ferdinand
t;ilpin, Mrs. Preston Lea and Mrs.
Louise A. du Pont received the guests at
the door and the NewCentury Club
Auditorium looked beautiful, though 1t
was very simply decorated, merely with
palms and green's. The supper was
served upstairs in the drawingroom. l
sat in the balcony deal Of the time and
watched the merry dancers. That bal
cony is jolly place to sit in. You can
. lust get on the front row and look down
ON the maizy whirl and criticize to your
hearts content, but there was not much
, to find fault with last night. The music
was perfect and the gowns did not LOOK
d bit draggled, as it is the newspaper
fashion to say now toward the END OF
the season. | never saw Miss Elibazett
Gilpin looking better. She had such 6
:. petite, plump figure, and seems to g
> into everything with such seriousness
= She wore white. During the evening
had a chance to ask her about he
. studies, for you know she is studying
: decorative art at the Drexel Institute
. and has made somewhat of success Il
wood carving, burnt wood designs ant
. mantel decorations. So you see all ou
. butterflies Of fashion are not idle. Eve
y butterflies have serious thoughts.
e "Then there was Miss Bradford. Sh
1 has lust returned from Washington an
y y was quite u belle during the evening.
III Miss Rebecca Il. Smith, tall an
stately, always belle, was very viya
cious during the evening.
u "rrhe Misses Lea came in late. 70
+" know they had been receiving at tie
!, in Philadelphia at the Acorn Club, give
u by Mrs. Charles NJ. Lea and Miss Ma
r. iorie Lea, in honor of Miss Church, {
A0 New York
.Ihen ] noticed during the evenin
lr Miss Mary du Pont, Miss Alice du Pon
70 Miss Elsie Swift, Miss McIlvaine, Il
on Misses Draper, the Misses Moore, Il
&C. Misses Cooper, the Misses Jackson, Mi
es' ethel Cause, Miss Natalie Wilson, Mi
Julie S. du Pont, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
,tc du Pont, Mr.. and Mrs. A. b. du Por
ne Miss Louisa D'A. du Pont, Mr.. al
Mrs. L. l.. Gilpin, Miss Gilpin, Mr.. al
Mrs. Monteith Jackson, Mr.. and MI
Preston Lea, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Moor
Miss Morse, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Miller, Mrs. II. b. Richardson, Mi
Agnes Richardson, Miss Elizabeth
swift. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas, Mi
IN Elizabeth B. Smith, Miss Mary Swi
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Ernest Smith, Mr..
Mrs. Frank Tatnall, Miss Eleanor Jot
,he son. Mrs. Samuel Bancroft, u. II. Coz
lec ran. Jr., A. b. Cooper, Jr., w.
'or. Cooper, Jr., u. T. Candy, Mr.. Cort
.u ~ W. r. Candy, f. l.. Curtis, Henry
"m ;,i Cnnby Ernest du Pont, Eugene du Po
WIN Jr.. La Motto du Pont, Pierre du Po
ahu Or. Walter G. Elmer, Russell Clip
can Hugh Garland, Charles B. Gray,
Tue Tue Wendell Hulburd, Leroy Harvey,
,ne l. Johnson, Frederick Lennig, Clarel
'Ae' K. LaMotte, J. w. Matthews, DIR.
"a, Lester. r. NJ. Munson, G. l.. Mcllyni
Mn John p. Nields, Willard Hall Por'
rian Jr.. Robert Pennington, William
Spruance, Jr, Harlan G. Ccott,
sillman, DR.. Edmund d. Shortlid
William Il. Scott, G. G. Williams, l..
Wales, Mr.. Wallace, Mr.. Winslow,
.n Woolley, Martin Il. Walker. Mr..
'usn Mrs. John Bancroft, Mr.. and Mrs. E
,nus , Belts, Miss Eleanor Belts, Miss Ri
men .at Miss Mary Cooper, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
g11' Curtis Miss Corbit Miss Chase, a
%. virginia Cooper, Miss Elsie s. 20
'snp and Miss Madeline Draper.
eity. "Mrs. Henry P. Scott looked perfe
men stunning in white. am sure no n
t.e attractive woman was there. Then .
% III Marguerite Johnstone in white.
"NIss Elizabeth B. Wales, a
nette, was enhanced by her simple
}. lexouisite white gown.
.onch "AIr. and Mrs. James T. Winche
~hor- were prominent among the guests
S;~th @ were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles T.
~ non. Arthur, with whom they ate sur
'9 Mr. and Mrs. George Gray Kno
.hont and Mr.. and Mrs. Henderson Weir
oD, ~, II nrominent among the young mai
folks.
"The jeunesse dorees were muGl a
doov evidence. I noticed Jimmy M
'usN' rru;&. Ton McIlyQipo,