Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-21
Society

The Dutch cotillon given last night
at the assembly rooms by Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hubert Norton of West Twenty
eighth street in honor of their daugh-
ter, Miss Amy Marie Norton, was with
out doubt the most gorgeous and novel
affair ever given in Los Angeles. The
ballroom was transformed into a Dutch
villege, the great blue windmill with
white bricks being set in the corner of
the room surrounded by Dutch
flower garden, from which the favors
were distributed. From the chandelier
III the centerAan enormous paraSol of
tulips and ferns was suspended and
ropes of tulips and ferns were fes-
tooned to all sides and corners of the
room in yellow, red and white. Around
the walls great wands of tulips and
greens We're fastened, and over each
balcony hand painted stencils of Dutch
scenes with window boxes of tulips and
grasses Arond the frieZe were ropes
of ferns and tulips bordering Dutch
scenes of girls and boys in gardens.
over 5000 paper tulips were used and
each was hand etched. In the reception
hall and parlors were the poinsettias
and palms with bay trees and potted
plants. The cotillon was opened at II
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leader, followed by Charles Hender-
son and Mrs. Ernest A. Bryant, Miss
Amy Marie Norton and Nathaniel
Head. The programs were hand
painted Dutch scenes in the blue and
white, with the young hostess initials.
The opening favors of the grand march
were tulip wands for the young women
and tulip canes for the men. They
formed around the flower garden about
tha windmill caOpnd HeytIrn had
for lavors Dutch bonnets of paper,
with flaXen braids, and round caps for
the men. The third figure had tiny
wooden shoe pincushions for the young
women and great white geese with yell
low bills and clackers in their necks
for the men. The fourth figure was
the Dutch dollies, dressed in tissue
paper costumes with long satin rib
bons, so they were swung from their
wrists as they danced. But the piece
dc resistance" was the final figure when
the lights were all eXtinguished in the
ballroom and turned on in the wind
mill, of different shaded gobeS and
flowers. rejecting in the mirrowed
walls, the favors being long-stemmed
colored tulips with centers of confetti
which were broken, and as they danced
the colored confetti was scattered
about making a fairyland Of flowers.
In the dining room downstairs tho
Christmas scheme was artistically car
ried out, the stairway being banked
with bay trees and palms and wound
with poinstettias and red wistaria. The
morrored pillars were festooned with
ropes of red wisteria and asparagus
pumosis ferns, and from the back
ground screens of innumerable ropes
of the ferns and wisteria. The wall
pockets were filled with ferns and
poinsettias and the electric lights We're
shaded with red shades. The guests
were all served at the same time, the
tables being most original in their
decorations. A huge SNOWFALL of white
frosted paper formed the centerpiece,
with an enormous bow of red satin
ribbons holding cluster of poinsettias.
the ices We're served with the lights
turned out and representing tiny Santa
Claus holding lighted tapers. The
decorations were in charge of Mrs.
Wellington Landrum of New York
city. Two hundred young people danced
the cotillon, and the whole scene was
one of most marked beauty. The
unique decorations with the setting of
the beautifully gowed women will be
long remembered in the memories of
the favored guests. Assisting the
hOsteSSeS were,