The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-13
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LAST FOR I He YEAR.
Gotillion Club Gives It's Last Party
for Present Season at
Elks' Hall.
Novel Figures Are introduced The
Favor Table Heaped High With
Amusing Trifes.

The Cotillion Club gave it's last party
| Of the wear last evening in Ellls' hall. Sew
eral novel features were introduced by Da-
vid 1Tenny who led, assisted by Cavour S. [
| Langdon. Mines. Thomas Dyer, Cavour
| S. Langdon, Louis X. Hull and Walter
/ w. Heffelfinger presided at the favor ta-
BILE which was heaped high with pretty |
and amusing trifles Valentine Day was
h suggested by Master Thee. Moreton,t the
little son of Mr.. and Mrs Henry j. More
ton, who acted Cupid and was drawn
into the ballroom in a flower decked
chariot by Misses Florence Welles Ida
May Heffelfinger and Flora Brewer,
goWned in white. The picturesque little
god brought hearts for the women and
darts to the men who had to si@ow their
skill before they could secure their part
ners. Chinatown in New York had been
ransacked for the favors in quaint orien-
tai figure which was introduced by two
men in. enormous tissue paper kimonos:
wearing grotesque masks and carrying
bamboo staffs, from which hung Japanese
lanterns and waving incense sticks. The
lights had been lowered and a paper
screen had been placed across the center of
/ the hall. The women were grouped be-
| hind the screen and given paper masks
| and the men chose their partners without
| knowing who they were. Charles Gale
l led in a group Of men playing all sorts OF
| queer shaped instruments while the girls
swung tambourines in another figure.
1 Partners were found in a Marguerite waltz
while the girls pulled the petals from
paper daisies to the old couplet OF "iie
loves me; he loves me not There were
/ several costume figures in Which the men
I represented cigars, beer kegs and nine
II pins while the girls had the essentials
Al which went with them, as, for instance,
III stems for the kegs. A May pole dance,
/ a spoinsetta waltz and a figure in which
the girls tossed balls of Manufactured rib
,,rr1,% r1yf tho
! matched the ribbons with the girls to1
l partners. were among the novel features
1 Supper was served in the dining-room a
midnight. Among the dancers was 9
group Of st. Paul young people, who were
/ guests Of Horace Lowry.
! pleasantly entertained by the Cotlll13,
Club this winter are planning to give {
= party for the men before Lent.
81 Mrs. George Parker Harding gave a te:
} for which 200 invitations had been issue
this afternoon at her home on ColtaX ave
SInue IS. The hours were from 3 until
) 81 o. clock and as the guests came and went
4 a string orchestra played delightful pro
4 gram of music from leafy nook on IN
: & landing Palms, ferns and smilaN Wer
i arranged through the rooms to furnish
I background for the profusion OF flowers
{ 4 The hall and library were III red, IN
{ { den i'm green and the living room In white
In the, diningroom- a sreat oashet :,
{ z sunny daffodils were in the center OF IN
* table which was lighted with yellow e
ners Daffodils were also among tn
= smilax and ferns that banked the side
board Mrs. Harding received alone, an
assisting through the rooms were Mme
E. F. Osborne. E. M Goldsporous'
22 I George Storer Harry Waite, g: 8. Altar
son, f. w. Cappelen. Sln tine ol1ll = !:
room were Misses Northrop McLaughli
- G. paul Marearet Mel aughlin MART
Gray and Rowena Harding.
This evening the assisting women w
-, be entertained at a buffet supper ana Ia
Yer they will be joined by an. equal nun
Der Of men and cards will pc played. =
[5c. Mrs Fdgar IT, Rollins of Irving aven
yNG s entertained sixty women at CARDS II
afternoon. The decorations ana appon
for ments were all suggestive or 81. Vale
tines Day and festoons Of red hearts a
liar smilax were arranged through the room
~, Clusters Of carnations were In the llvln
per room and red and: yellow tulips furnish
> CAV touches of color in the dinlng-roo
lar Six-hand ,euchre was played and the sec
cards were red hearts decorated with W.
gar, er color The assisting women were MN
s. r. N. Tooker, w. G.. Pike and j. f. no
gar, Mrs. Rollins sister, from Chaska Frau
lay was served by Misses Hazel Rollins, dt
garet Riheldaffer and Alice Dalrymple
~. Miss Helen Tooker distributed the SCI
PER cards.
- Mrs A. Y. Bayne gave an informal c.
'cco nartv This afternoon at her home on H
''' nepin avenue Carnations and roses C
ried out a color scheme of red and
score cards represented hearts.
f,,l1 tables Of euchre were played. "
Ravne was assisted by Mines. G.
ohe Schroyer, M. McCollum and McBroom
Chicago.
fuus Mrs j. c.. sLanders will entertain
cards tomorrow afternoon at her he
on Humboldt avenue S.
Miss Hazel Rollins Of Irving avenu
will entertain forty young people a
heart hunt this evening.
A very charming fancy dress dane
party was given Wednesday evening
johnson hall by a group of Lake Min
tonka girls. The hall was beautif1