The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-20
MACCABEES AND THEIR PRIVATE YEARLY
NIGHT Of FROlIC SP|EO BY MERE MAN
WAS THERE TO GET KEWPIES NYMPHS
AND CHORUS GIRLS But WAS SIDETRACKED HULA HULAS
UNTIL MAGGIE GOT wIsE-HOw DO WE KNOwl THAT'S SECRET

Behind locked and barred doors the
members of Alma Review No. 3 of the
Woman's Benefit Association of Mac
cabees held their annual character
dress party last night.
IL ito laugh is to grow fat" is a
true adage the scores of ladies who
had the pleasure of witnessing and
taking part in this vivid and strangely
laugh-exciting entertainment will look
today as though tire pump had been
used to good advantage, and the local
drug stores should have sales for
cures for corpulency that would far
exceed the proceeds derived from
their soda fountain sales on a circus
day.
The strangely familiar faces above
the wondrous costumes, whose wear
ers stumbled shambed. limped,
walked, ran, waited. swan, few
sprang. marched. crept, meandered
and got themselves somehow or other
into Winneva hall last evening. caused
the soberly-attired ladies not acting
any part to gasp in astonishment.
There were three fat men from
Lord knows where, dressed in their
best and smirking at darling group
of "kewpies" that turned their dainty
noses up at any man over twenty-one
so these men of non-approachable
regulations and dignified mein raised
their eyebrows and smiled at three
water nymphs. graceful and 1.-THE of
form and limb. but their Neptuanic
taste prompted them to dive far under
the cooling waters to their caverns
where no doubt fat men have no part
or place. One of these men sighed in
and they seated themselves to await
the result of the strenuous efforts of
Jiggs to evade Maggie's watchful
vigilance and attach" himself to a
charming Rainbow Maid who, looking
from under her tilted hat. gazed her
displeasure at Jigg's advances. He
secured like rebuffs from the Ha-
waiian maid. but a painted chorus girl,
seeing chance for French dinner
in this great cosmopolitan city of
ours with a "real' millionaire. ac-
cepted his clumsy attentions. Later
the curtain raised on a tableaux of
Jiggs feeling the weight of the wrath
of his spouses rolling pin, where it
hurt the most
Two little girls in blue Billie
Burkes had wandered from their
comfy beds and were drousy and
sleepy until they spied two yellow
fairies guarded by their vigilant
nursie. and their round eyes opened
wide when they were promised trip
to Fairyland.
Grim poverty. with all the sadness
and depression il carries in its wake,
was there, in the form of a fortune
teller. but she found everyone so
taken up with the present fun there
was no chance to ply her trade. So.
pulling her poor rags about her
shrunken form, wandered to the far
corner of the room, there waiting and
watching for her opportunity that
never came to allay her distress.
There was murmur that strange
company of warriors had invaded the
city, and suddenly the doors were
opened wide by three musicians with
weird-l looking instruments and a
strange little drummer boy. The
weirdest martial music imaginable
filled the ears of those Maccabee
Ladies. Then followed young,
graceful youth with thoughtful mein.
bearing (strange to relate) the beau
tiful colors of Judas MaccabRus, fol-