The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-18

III 1nlS CITY IN winch me totlI'oiA
played the most prominent part. that
Of last evening at the Odd Fellow 5
Hall was the most artistic and social
success. It was conducted by the
Tuesday Evening Dancing club and
marked an epoch in local society
events. The members of the club and
their guests were arrayed in cos
tunes appropriate to st. Patrick S
day and the spring season. Three lit
tie maids, Dorothy Martin. Elizabeth
KoIp and Alice Correll, arrayed in
dainty green dresses distributed faV-
ors from heavily laden trays,
The favOrs were piled high in a dec
Grated wagon, which was drawn about
the hall preceding the dancing, by six
members OF the club. The favors con
sisted Of fancy caps, pretty little
aprons, sashes, flags, bOnbOn boxes,
clay pipes and sachet bags.
The Merry Widow figure was one
of the principal ones of the cOtillion
and probably the most beautifully eX-
crowned the Merry Widow" She
was presented with a beautiful yellow
hat trimmed in gold. Her gown was
of beautiful white satin. The men
wore pointed caps and green sashes,
The picture hats worn by the women
were trimmed i'll pink and green. They
also wore dainty green and white
aprons.
One of the most amusing features
of the evening and one which made an
especial appeal TO the interest of the
gentlemen guests was the apple race.
Messrs. Will Campbell and W. d.
Elmer acted as captains. A grand
scramble ensucd in the effort to fill a
basket with apples, The one first TO
succeed had the privilege of escOrting
his group of dancers onto the floor
first.
Great merriment was OccasiOned by
the balloon contest. The figure was
new in local cOtiliOnS and proved UNI
usually pretty. Each woman possessed
a toy balloon and d fan, each bearing
a corresponding number. BY the aid
Of the fans the miniature balloons
were waited to the opposite end of the
hall where the men were assembled.
As the balloons f1Oated down upon
them, the men sought to obtain pos
session of one of them. To the for
tunate one belonged the favor of
claiming the lady guardian as part
ner.
In the last figure a Scrpentlne was
thrown upon the dacers and showers
of confetti fell in profusion. The re
suit created great laughter among the
dancers.
The dancing club consists of about
thirty-five members. The numerous
social affairs given under its supervis-
ion this season have proved the lead
ing events in the local world of So
Ciety.
The Jolly Twelve Euchre club is
meeting this afternoon with Mrs,
Stevenson of Boyer street.
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Tuesday, March "a, the members of
the country club will have an informal
meeting. There will be dancing on the
porch followed by a smoker.
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Perhaps it would be advisable for
several of the Richmond girls to or
ganize a leap year club. The follow
ing article from a Muncie paper might
be followed by a local club, with good
results.
The Leap Year club, composed of a
number of girls in the younger society
set here, has taken advanced ground
on the question of chivalry and has
declared in favor of a return to the
manners of men in the days when
"Knighthood Was in Flower To see
what can be done toward bringing
about a reform in the manners of the
young men of their acquaintance, they
require them to live up to, the penalty
being social ostracism.
The first rule is that every young
man on meeting girl acquaintance
in the street or a public place, shall
lift his hat, removing it entirely from
his head. The perfunctory salute, as
if the young men We're privatcs in the
army recognizing an officer, will not
go with members of the Leap Year
club hereafter. But they go still fur
Their. When a young man meets one
of the young women of the club and
stops to talk with her, he must re-
move his hat entirely from his head
and hold it in his hand while the con-
versation continues.
The only exception to be made to
this rule is in case the young man is
i'll. when he may be allowed to replace
the hat on his head after he has once
DOTTED it.
There are other rules, such as re-
curing young men friends to give up
seats in street cars to any women who
may be standing, and removing their
hats i'll public elevators, but the young
women say these customs are com
monty observed now.
The indications arc that the aver
age young man is losing the old
respect for woman merely because
she is a woman" said one of the MEM
bcrs of the Leap Year club, The GUS
tom in the small towns of dOiug away
with chapcrons, the coeducatioua! i'll
stitutions and the camaraderie that
exists between American boys and
girls and Young men and women have