The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-15
MASKERS
On kauai
Very Pleasant Social
Function Given
at Lihue.

| Spouse to invitations 10 attend mas
querade ball, a gay party drawn from
! all parts of Kauai from Wainiha to Ke-
| kaha, gathered at the social hail in Ii
| hue.
| AT $50 o'clock the orchestra struck
| up the grand march, and the masKers
| fell in line and after marching and
| counter marching arranged themselves
| in a semi-circle about the room facing
| the stage upon which were seated Mes
| danes Purvis, w. H. Rice Jr. and
| Hastings. and Messrs S w. Wilcox
and W. II. Rice ST., the judges who
were to determine to whom were to be
| awarded the prizes respectively for the
| handsomest costume, ladies and gen
| tleman s and the funniest. This prov.
/ ed a difficult task for no one costume
1 was preeminent over asnumber of hand
some ones, and the judges finally effect
| ed a compromise by calling three of the
| ladies to the front to draw for the
prize which was a pretty plaque, and
| fell to Miss Florence Deverill who as
| Hawaii was dressed in the Hawai-
ian colors, with cap to match. The
| other two ladies were Mrs. Chas. Elston
| of Maxwell, who represented car
men, in a handsome costume of req
and yellow with bead trimmings and
black lace shawl and appropriate hair
| ornaments, and Mrs. James Spalding of
Kealia who as ''Pierrette, wore white
satin with black pompons.
George Fairchilds was given first
prize, stein for the handsomest men S
costume, that of Chinese Mandarin.
A character who appeared as a two
faced woman, and who created cor sid
cradle fun and aroused the curiosity of
all was awarded the first prize, center
piece, for the funniest women s
tune, and when the mask was removed
Charlie Sweeter IS smiling face greeted
the company.
Mr.. Vaughan of Koloa merited and
received the first prize, also stein, for
the funniest mems character. His
grotesque antics were most amusing.
After the prizes had been awarded
the command was given to unmask
after which the orchestra struck up a
two-step and soon the entire lot of
maskers was whirling about forming a
Kaleidoscope of moving color. Dancing
was continued until midnight when re-
freshments were served and an hour
later the party broke up; the ball was
an unqualified success.
Among the pretty costumes deserving
mention was that of Mrs. Fairchilds as
"Theodora, - that of Mrs. Francis Gay
as Night, that of Miss Ethel Gay
who appeared in Colonial costume as
did also Miss Aldrich, Miss Lady Mac
farlane as Carmen, Mrs. j. l.. Robert
son, fancy dress, Mrs. Norman Greig as
''little girl Among the gentlemen,
Mr.. de Lacey's costume ''court jester
was attractive, while gentleman
whose modesty prevented his giving
his name wore handsome Spanish
dress.
There were number of funny char
acters who deserve special mention:
Charlie Elston as black "mammy'
with two unruly children Mrs. San
dow and Miss Ada Rhodes) who seem
ed to be having lot of trouble over
nursing bottle, provoked mirth for
all and were considered by the judges
for prize; but as trio, they were not
classed
Mr.. Sloggett attracted attention and
made a lot of noise with his wooden
shoes, part of the makeup of an emf
grant from Europe who claimed to be-
long to a class most desirable as new
Ito get).
Mr. Boyle looked so much like "a |
tramp that people instinctively
drew away from him and passed by on
the other side.
Among the ladies, Mrs. Duncan was |
most attractive as cowboy girl; Mrs. |
Baldwin of Makaweli appeared as |
Queen of Hearts, Mrs. Faye as |
hay maker, Mrs. Sweetser as a witch, |
Mrs. Sloggett as a German peasant wo-
man, Mrs. Carter as Bo Peep; Mrs. |
Taylor as Pierrette, Mrs. Wilkinson as
Red Riding Hood; Mrs. Hogg as Jap |
anese woman. Mrs. Froehlieh as a Gyp-
sy, Mrs. Chas. Rice fancy dress, Mrs. |
Christian, Korean woman, Mrs. Jaeger |
Korean woman, Miss Wilcox represent
ed the ''Queen of Hearts, Miss Mable |
Wilcox, Primo Beer; Miss Duncan, keo |
Kidding Hood; Miss Abbott, "Priscil- |
la" Miss Bachelor, Domino; Miss |
Lena Deverill, Dutch peasant girl; Miss
Jordan, Gypsy; Miss Peiler, "Miss
Moffitt''
Mr.. JAS. Spalding appeared as Pier
rot, Harold Rice as Romeo, Mr.. Hill as |
COW boy, Mr.. Willard as Chinese Man
DARN, W. H. Rice Jr. revived recollec-
tions of the days of the monarchy by |
appearing in the uniform of the Gov
ernor of Kauai, School Inspector Bald
win came in a Domino; Messrs. A. R. |
McLane and Guy Rankin, appeared as
- Pakes;' John Grace represented su-
gar and was respondent in a suit of |
burlap with all sorts of inscriptions on
1t; W. Danford was well disguised in a
suit as clown; Ed. Deverill wore a /
Continental suit as did also Charles A.
Rice, Mr.. Schultz wore a Korean suit,
John Hogg appeared in Japanese
dress, Z. f. Nahum came as a clown.
while DR.. Cooper, Mr.. Rohrig and Char
lie Wilcox modestly paraded about the
room, dressed as girls, on the arm of
any man that came along: Mr.. Chris
tan appeared as ''eoon.' Mr.. Ber-
gau looked warm in a red suit repre-
sentlng Satan,' Willie and Malcolm