The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-09
Jamaica Orchestra Provided
Music for Dancing
Club de Luxe
HALLOWEEN PARTY IN
VANDERBILT STABLE
Fashionables (of the City obeyed When
Will Kingsbury Shouted His Com
mand, ''Fellers to the Front. Ladies
Back! All Promenade -

mano, e4lers to the Front, Ladies
Back! All Promenade
'Fellers to the front, ladies back!
All Promenade
His husky Vermont voice rang out
authoritatively, and the fashionabIes
OF New York did it. There they were,
the Club de Ningt dancing club de
luxe of this town. fronting and backing
and promenaiding,' in diamonds and
decolletage, swallowtails and sideburns,
| with all the zest of people of the soil
and the younger ones actually in
ginghams and overalls. For who is a
Havemeyer, forsooth, to disregard the
commanding call Of Will Kingsbury of
Jamaica, Vermont, famous prompter of
a famous orchestra, speciality man for
barn warnings and weddin' feasts and
brought down to Moo York for this par
| ticular occasion! And what good rea-
son could Il New York debutante give
for refusing to hop around like a MINI
| BILE millmaid, when the quavering notes
/ Of an antique organ are being vibrated
| by Will s brother S wife, and Harvey
and Uncle Martin kingsbury themselves
are both working hard on a violin and
eornet?
! 1t was Halloween and the opening
night of the season for the Club de
/ Ningt. and tables at the clubroOms at
/ 5O5 Madison avenue, the old William
Vanderbilt stable where the famous
Maud S. used to champ and paw, haa
been reserved long in advance. Mrs.
r. w. Hawkesworth, who has the at
fairs of the club in her charge, had as
suTed the members that Back to Ma
/ ture Night" was going to be fun, and
+ having the faith of experience in Mrs
\ Hawkesworth s predictions, two hun.
dred and seventy-tive people made reser-
vations.
H The Nermonters were the performers
that night. though l have never seen
! gathering Of people more able ia
take care Of themselves. You may talk
about the boredness of society people
but | saw them much more gay and
spontaneous than many of the so-called
natural - people in the world. There
was no moping at this party. The or
chestra, Mrs. Hawkesworth 5 own, was
Iplaying and singing at the tops of its
lungs, How'd 'ye-do, how'd 'ye-do,
and, " How'd 'ye-do' called back the
dancers. Little balloons were set free
and the crowd shrieked at their sau
sage shapes careering around the nights
atop the hall. Mr.. Irving Fisher, OF
whom they never tire, sang a simple
little "Too Wet To Woo owl song
and everybody loved it. 1t was fun
pure fun, that night, just as Mrs
! Hawkesworth had said, and, as she
also had said, it all depended on
the people.
Until time for the square dance, the
! Kingsburys of Vermont had sat at {
table right next to ours, this country
family on their first trip to New York
in the midst of Club de Vingt revelry
! Ma Kingsbury had on her best bib and
tucker, too, white waist and dark skirt
bonnet with plumes topping high pom
padour and, chiefest glory, wide pinl
bow pinned under her waist on hel
Sunday corset cover And the men il
their gray shirts sat close to her, as
they all watched the dancing figures
and the winking pumpkins and the
: scurrying walters. The music was un
familiar TO them, too, the ragtime OF
the orchestra and the popping of corks
But they were entirely unembarrassed
and it made you wonder a bit until yor
: reflected that poise is a matter of Sc
=. renity of spirit and that these fou1
people from Southern Vermont are a
i. calm and untroubled as the mountain
+. Themselves. Up Vermont way the PEG