St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-03-08
Madisonville and Covington Mas
Querade.

the young men of Madisonville and
CoVington in the spacious dance hall
of the Riverside Pavilion, which ap-
| peared like unto fairyland, so myth
cal was its appearance, due of course,
to the artistic manner in which the
decorations were arranged.
The writer has attended masque-
| rades where elaborate decorations
and innumerable electrical effects
were used in order to give life to
the occasion, but such artificial elab-
orations were not needed for the
pavilion ball, SO successful was the
affair. The costumes were the height
of the costumers art. They were
from the sublime to the ridiculous,
and many, many peals of laughter
rent the air, this blending with the
joyous exclamations of ooh, how
beautiful" when some masker en-
tered with costume that would ex-
cite rapturous admiration because of
its grandeur.
1t was hard matter to determine
who was who SO cleverly did the
maskers disguise themselves
In some cases details Of costumes
relating to beauty were far from be-
ing carried out. But who careG?
What difference did it make il an
old-timer got out his suit OF days
gone by, or If a beautiful lady Of the
mythical Tchefuncta hadn't shaved
that day, or if shy country lassie
had on his hob-nail shoes. The
haired miss asked for a chew of
tobacco!
There were clomns and train rob-
bers, beautiful girls with heavy
heards), pine knots and hill billies
of all descriptions were there, dough
boys and sea daddies, in fact, the
champion sea daddy dry land sailor
was there in all his glory, and SO
was the Green Necktie Kids girl
there, and this causes us to wonder
if she danced every third dance with
him. The boy of Red Necktie Fame
was there too.
The Village Cut-Up contributed
largely to making the affair the sue
cess that it was. Our friends, the
Hill Billy and Pine Knot Vamp were
there but fortunately no hearts were
broken, Mr.. Frank DeGruy made
UP as Fatima and got his program
filled with dances by the young men
charming lady. ~
The young lady whose tears were
used to sprinkle the CoVington road
came near having some more tears
to shed, but he came dressed as an
army officer and Jlaaned everything
to her satisfaction n fact, every
one was there that should have been
there. 1t was just one big, happy,
sWaying, jazZing croWd. The ghosts
of yester year must have wondered
and wondered, for they had never
seen such jazzing or heard slle4
music-such strange. as
tic, jazzing melody--it mist have
made the spirits Of by-gone compos-
ers dance with joy.
The young men who gave the ball
are to be congratulated, and every
one is sure that they have been, for
judging from the many happy ex-
pressions on the faces of those who
that the young men are the recipi-
ents Of much congratulation.
The costumes worn by the young
ladies at the pavilion bali attracted
a great deal Of attention, but the
ones that deserve special praise were
those of the Ace of Hearts, Ace of
Diamonds, Ace of Clubs and Ace of
Spades.
AS wood chopper Eddie Carlson
may be a wonder, but as Z lover he
Is a blunder
Last Saturday night Jake Broders
tried to introduce new kind OF jazz
dance.
The Village Cut-Up says there Is
only one way to stop the sale OF
liquor. Give it away!
In the good old days girl stayed
at home because she had nothing to
wear. Nowadays she goes out for
the same reason.
Woman, woman, lovely woman,
you are like gold mine. We never
know your real value. Louis says
many a poor sucker has gone broke
prospecting
We don't know who Wilr be the
next president, but we do know that
Joe Will marry the girl.
A party named Will B. Stude ap-
piled for job at the yards. We
wonder if he will be.
Why is it that some of the pepole
that dressed tacky the other night
looking better than they ever did
before?
News Item-Next summer the
ladies patronizing the bathing places
and summer resorts will wear the
smallest bathing suit sever made.
When Garcia heard this he re-
signed his job and applied for
| position at one of the summer re-
sorts.
LOST OR STOLEN-One Huds-
peth fox and wolf hound bitch, white
| and black spotted, with tan head and
ears, white blaze face, big ears, two
years old, weight about 40 pounds;
has scar from being cut on wire
fence on her left hind leg Reward
| will be paid fr~ euv Aformation
| leading to her j. B. Ourso.
| Houltonville, La.
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