The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-12

till late hour. Ice cream and cake
were served at the close of an enjoy
able evening.
Mesdames Rand Smith, Herman
Wolff, George Veitch and Fred Wilson
will be hostesses at a social given
next Wednesday in the church parlors
by the Presbyterian ladies.
Mr.. Reg. Smith and his bride ar
rived home last night from their
wedding trip. They had strenuous
time being thirty-six hours in going
from Portal to Minneapolis the aver
age rate of travel being nine miles an
hour. OF course the time did not seem
as long to them as it would to ordin-
airy travellers, yet 1t obliged them to
change and shorten their route. They
had intended touring through Canada
via Winnipeg but found conditions as
bad in the sister country as in this
and so went to Minneapolis instead.
A unique shower party was that
given lately at Hatton in honor of
Miss Ellen Peterson who was shortly
to leave the town. 1t was given at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Nelson
where she resided. Miss Peterson
came home from town TO find the
great house in total darkness. She
had started to secure light. when
from out the darkness perfect show
err OF linen bundles We're hurled at her.
and sea of feminine faces greeted
her as the house all al once became
brilliantly lighted. The rooms were
decorated in broken hearts.
Mrs. Thos. Griffith is entertaining
her mother Mrs. H. A. Goodrich Of
Cresco, Iowa. She will remain three
months.
The inaugural ball held last night
at the state capitol was largely attend
ed and was the most brilliant OF any
previous occasion. Five hundred were
in attendance from all parts of the
| state.
Cotillion favors continue to be as
costly as the hostess can afford, and
very we'll worth having are the toys
society plays with at the debutante
dances this season. At a recent affair
of this sort combination fans and
opera glasses were among the novel
offerings. These devices are so ar
ranged that each part serves as a
handle for the other. When the glas-
ses are in use the fan takes the
place of lorgnette handle, and when
the fan is opened the glasses makes
substantial holder. So attractive
were they that many of them were
"lost" that evening. One young wo-
man whose fan and glasses disappear
ed mysteriously remarked that 1t
might come that cotillion detectives
would be necessary in society. Lee
mons have played an important part
in the way of gifts during the holi-
days. A lemon tree laden with the
fruit was given to one society woman,
which she displayed proudly. At a
party early in the week where the
favors, attached to different colored
ribbons, were drawn from a basket,
large yellow lemon was discovered
on the last ribbon Of all.
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The names of the popular dances
which add SO much to the enjoyment
Of the festive season of Christmas
have, in most cases, very interesting
origin or significance.
The position taken up by the dane
ers gave the name to the quadrille,
which is literal French for "a little
square," while country dance has no
connection with rustic gymnastics,
but is simply corruption of the
French contre-danse, which the re-
ference to the position to each other
during the dance.
The lancers derived its name from
the fact that this variation of the
quadrille was originally improvised
by company of lancers for their own
amusement while seated in their sad
dies.
| The polka is a Polish dance, and it's
name comes from the Bohemian word
pulka. meaning half, and refers to
the half-step which occurs in this
lively measure, of which the more
graceful schottische is variation;
both names, like that of the nation
al dance of Poland-the mazourka-
being native terms.
The short steps peculiar to the old
time favorite, the minuet, gave the
dance its name, the Latin for small
being minutus.
The waltz, again owes its name to
its characteristic movement, the Ger
man waltzen-meaning to revolve-
expressing the circling motion of the
dancers.
The Roger de Coverley is named
after its originator; while the less
familiar dance known as the tarantel-
la Is so called because its vigorous
movements were supposed to be a
certain antidote. to the poison of
noxious spider at laramie, in Italy,
where the dance is highly poular.
The evolutions of the dancer suf-
ficently explain the term reel. Jig is
from the French gigue; and break
down is term from across the At