The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-08
DECORATIONS WERE PRETTY
Never Has Eagles Ballroom Been More
Attractive Than With the Smilax
and Purple and White Wistar1a
Which ornamented It Then.

Several hundred of Kenosha's best
known men and women gathered last
night in the Eagles clubhouse to dance
for charity and incidentally to take
part in one Of the most delightful af-
fairs of the season.
Beautiful and gorgeous gowns worn
by attractive women were the order of
the evening. Splendid music that made
dancing a joy was played for every
number. A floor that could hardly be
improved upon added to the general
felicity of the event and the beauty of
the decorations surpassed those Of any
preceding ball given in the club house.
Purple and White Everywhere.
Purple and white are the B. P. O. E.
colors and purple and white were used
with the addition of plenty Of freshly
green smilax in the color scheme. The
great room was converted into minia
ture out-of-doors so much of foliage ap-
peared upon the walls, twined over the
trellises which were used in the side
decorations, and in festoons from the
center of the ceiling to the lights at
the sides of the room. Nearly ton Of
the smilax was put into the ornamental
ton of the room. The large white
inverted light globes were banded with
purple. Purple and white wistaria
blossoms and purple and white morning,
glories were woven into the strings of
smilax
Fairy Pagoda Built in Hall.
AS one entered the hall it was into a
trellis pagoda of white, built out from
the main entrance doors into the hall it.
self and surmounted by four white trel-
lis turrets in each of which sat a large
potted fern, the long graceful, sword
like leaves of which dropped gracefully
down. Purple and white wistaria and
strings of smilax were garlanded into
the roof and side trellises of the pagoda.
A cosey corner with piano lamp and
oriental rugs was established at the
east side of the south end of the room
and an improvised orchestra stand with
a trellis separating it from the floor
proper was built at the east side of the
north end.
Promenaded on Verandah.
The east verandah, used as between
the-dance promenade, was hung with
purple and creamy white draperies in
which the purple elk s head and the
monogrammed B. P O. E.'' of the
order were superimposed upon the white
background.
The first floor, east verandah and the
rathskeller were converted into sup
per rooms with tables prettily decorated
with smilax and the purple and white
wistaria. Supper service continued in
both Of these rooms from 1880 until
about 2 O'Clock
The committee in charge of the dec
orations received many compliments
upon their work. They were Zenas Pill
cher, Asbury Vale, Harry S. Skinkle and
David R. Fogwell.
Home Sweet Home at A M
The dancing began at about ten
. 'clock and from that time until four in
the morning when the traditional
g Home Sweet Home was played, the
large floor was thronged with dancers.
The costuming was exceedingly hand
some and the first taste of the long,
closely fitting skirts, the corsage which
dips in the back to within a few inches
of the waist line and the front of which
is contrastingly higher than the back,
and the contrasting colored skirt and
corsage, all of which Paris promises will
be features of the 1917 styles, was given
In Miss Eleanore Casey's gown. It was
of white satin with a sapphire pan velvet
corsage and the skirt, in accord with
the latest modes, had lost the fullness
which has marked the ball costumes of
the past two seasons and reached her
ankles in the back, being just trifle
shorter in the front, as were the quaint
ly fashioned skirts of long ago from
which the 1917 modes are said to be
adapted. =
The large number of people who are
out of the city and who have usually at
tended the annual Elks' ball were con-
spicuous by their absence last night, al
| though, so far as numbers were con-
cerned, they would not have been miss
| ed, as the floor was we'll filled for every
dance.
About $500 was cleared above all
expenses for the charity work of the
| Order of the Elks