The ' Omaha Sunday Bee.
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KSTAMLISIIKO Jt'NE 10, 1871.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNINO, FEHIiUAHY 14, 1001.
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The little Green Sticker in the little Green Book is the only little Sticker that Sticks; Stick to it!
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CROCKERY!
RICH AMERICAN CUT GLASS
roil VARIETY, BEAUTY OF DESIGN, BRIL
LIANCY OF CUTTING, our line OF RICH CUT GLASS
IS UNSURPASSED IN THE WEST. There's a CLAMOR
ING of the h'julieg cotters and importers to secure our or
ders. AVE ARE THE FIRST TO SEE THE NEWEST
AND LATEST, nnd we are pretty sure that the prices we
secure are a bit lew than the ordinary dealers can hope to
secure. ,
The newest things out at the closest cut figures is the
two-fold rule in our cut glass section.
FIVE TIMES GREEN TRADING STAMPS FOR ONE
ON ALL PURCHASES OF CUT GLASS. TUICES FROM
25C TO $75.00. MONDAY ONLY.
ON EVERY TOILET SET OF A VALUE OF $2.50
OR MORE AVE WILL GIVE TEN DOLLARS' WORTH
EXTBA OF GREEN TRADING STAMPS.
No. 2 Iunp Chimneys, each ,. . 3c
Thin Blown Table Tumblers, each ' 2ic
FIVE GREEN TRADING STAMPS FOR ONE ON
ALL JARDINIERES.
Crockery Department Second Floor.
The Bennett Service,
Green Trading Stamps
and Other Matters
We have doubled, trrblotl und quaili-niilctl tli giving of the MTTI.E
GREEN STICKER in those nrnnntlor.nl wilea thnt have marked time
in your money Raving during the week. TOMORROW AND SUBSE
QUENT DAYS WE WILT. (JIVE THE PUHLIC TALATE MORE. The
tiREEN TRADING STAMPS IS ONLY ONE of the minor uttruetions
that draw the shopping thousands to this biggest of "big Htores." .
We believe In the golden rule; its the golden rule, our winning ways,
our determination to please, our certainty of retaining your good will
that brings every sensible buyer to Bennett's. '
We do most anything to merit your complete satisfaction. Our sales
people and assistants are' with us heartily and wholly in an effort to
maintain the magnificent standard of Bennett popularity, which YOU
HAVE BUILT AROUND US.
Watch these t!reen Trading Stamp sensatlors. Keep watching every
Bennett advertisement it's never anybody's but Bennett's, never gnrbled
from State street," Chicago It's Bennett's.
You will strike It rich during the coming week. Strike it very rich,
tomorrow, Monday. Every department manager is enthuslnstlc in his
work, and in every department, there's sure to be "souietblu' do!n'"l
A- WALL. PAPER SENSATION
Double areen Trading Stamps to Every Wall Paper Buyer.
Good White Blanks, up from.'. ... 3c
.. 7c
30c
Good Gilts, with 9 or 18-lnch border, made to retail at 15c and 20c
Monday and Tuesday .' .'
All fall style In Tapestries, Bilks, Embossed Golds and Moires that
sold as high as $1.00 a roll
Soda. Fountain!
Monday Special at the
Soda Fountain
Nesselrode Pudding
Charlotte Kusse
French Drip Coffee
Tolu Ice Cream Soda
These are not fancy names but
FANCY DRINKS orr'n'ted by out ex
pert dlspeoaer.
MAIN FLOOR.
Dnigs! Drugs!
Attractions In Drug Section
at Bargain Prices
Colgate's TaliMim rowdcr, in cashmere
Bouquet or violet, 15C
per box
(SampU'f Free.)
Chamois Skin Soap, 2Sc
per bar
3 bars In box , 60c
Schlltx' Malt Kxtract. a strengthener and
a notirtsher, V pint bottles, Cfl
per dozen t-vr
Malt Nutrlne, H pint. 2 25
per doi 7Lr
1 bottle... , I9c
Pabst Malt Kxtract, V, pint 2.25
bottle, per dozen TZT
1 bottle lvc
Welsh's Grape Juice, 1 pint 25C
bottle
GREEN TRADING STAMPS
EVERY TIME.
Yi
ardware
Here are some extra
ordinary snaps in Cutlery
Scissors and Razors.
We have an overstock of these
fine goods. We make a special
cut Monday. v ' .
Ladies' Scissors, 4 in.... ..10c
Ladies' HcinsorH, in..'. ..12c
Ladies' Scissors, 5 in. . . . 14c
These are strictly warranted
goods.
Razors
Black rubber handle, extra fine,
hollow ground, J in. or g in.
blade, regular price is $2.25;
Monday the razor is yours
sir, at , .1.50
Star Safety Iiazor, the $2.00
'world renownetj Star Safety
Monday for.... 1,30
Woodenwsxre
High Folding Clothes Dar.65c
Strong ti-ft. Ladder 45c
20x3ti Lapboard, only 32c
18x22 Bread Hoard..'. 23c
4-hook Hall Back) Triple
Hooks ..' 19c
5c
Dorothy odd
The Faultless Fitting Shoe for Women.
Perfection of style
and absolute comfort
gua ranteed.
Ilurnblllty with a wenr
nbloness that kerps all
the Initial features IN
TACT FOR A LONGKK
TIME THAN THK OK
DINAIIY woman's shoe
will keop together. TUB
DOROTHY DODD shoo
Is the ldenf shoe for wo
men. With ordinary
enre It will look as jrood
nt the end of 13 WEEKS
as when you first put
your foot Into it.
All our' spring styles are now on exhibition;
all leathers, all styles, all dreamingly cute
maices you feel young perennially young to wear a Dorothy Ddd Shoe.
Oxfords, $2.50 and $3.00
.l. Shoes, $3.00 and $3.50
Fast color eyelets in fcvefry shoe." '?
Gin. Towel King.
A "Capitol" Sensation!
The next great GREEN TRADING STAMP SENSATION that U going
to make you notice that every second woman you meet on Sixteenth street
has a GREEN TRADING STAMP COLLECTING BOOK In hir hajid vou'va
r " this before will be pulled oft SOME DAY THIS WKEK. Soon n w
have perfected our plana we et the town ringing with another "turrlble"
GRKKN TRADING STAMP boost. There will bo DOLLARS UPON DOLLARS
UPON DOLLARS of GREEN TRADING STAMPS on a very ordlnury purchase
of some very ordinary staples that are extraordinary good values.
Watch Our Ads! Wach- Our Ads!
In the Resvlm of Art
Just Made a Big Purchase of Metal Photo
Frames, the Latest Designs.
1000 all sizes. In gold and black, worth 75c of anybody's money, on 25C
.' sale Monday at only, euch v:''''V':'''"'''l'.Y'' 10.
600 Met.a Photo Frames, In beautiful gold and black, newest 4oC
shapes, worth a round dollar anywhere, Monday lor
Other Frames, exquisite, stunners, for the price of 40C
110.00 down to S1.2D. $1.10, fcoc. TSc and
PYROGR A.PIIY
6' Rig Panels. Dutch Hoys, Dutch Glrla. Golf Girls Jap Girls, Soubrette sell
regularly at Too: Monday we make a sensational 4VC
sacrifice at, each n
Practice Placques, big, handsome, JC
each - : ..
Plate Racks, Antique, Old English and Puritan LvO
Styles, each -
Furniture
Di Miner Golde-n oak 6-foot
extension, One fin
laDieS lshed-value4 ft C
$7.00. for 4TJJ
Parlor Three-plecomahog-c(ll.
any finished, cov
OUUS ePed witli nice da.
11.50
You never heard of such
values as these!
masksells regular
ly at $16, for
Golden
n- 1 uoiaen oan.
WOHtllB fp deep tuft.
ing, spring edges, covered
with velour sells A 00
regularly for $8.73.... U.UU
. Steel frame wov-
1.95
wire,
good value at $2.7B
DinitlC GoJden alt brace
fhnira arms' cana seat
1
$1.03-for.
Continuous posts, al 1
coldr combinations
sella regu- Q C()
Enamel
Beds
larly at $14, Monday for
Side- Golden oak, French
4 plate mirror, abundant
boards lGbel poom c
cheap at $13, for .... .... I
Rockers Golden oak or mi-n-jpifp-c
hogaoy finish, sad-
KocKers dle geati p.r
lshed regular value $4.50
Dressers Golden oak, . large
nrej,er Frenoh m 1 v r 0 r'
urcssci serpentine front-
sells regularly at $18,
at
13.50
Corner M ah 0 s an flnl8hod
frames, covered with
uuairs Bilk damask J nr
sells regularly for $7.25. .. ?TJiJ
25c
1.00
1.50
Muslin Underwear Sale on Our 2nd Floor
Chemise at 25c.
We have about 25 -dozen line Chemise left ont-of onr January
sale that pot mussed and a little soiled worth up C
to $1 each, sizes 34 to 44, all go Monday ench ww
$1 Worth of Green Trading1 Stamps With Each Chemise.
Wrappers.
A pood Percale Wrapper, in blues and blacks, worth
?1.00, Monday each T'ZfC
t Dressing: Sacques.
Another cut price sale on fine Eiderdown Jacques a 7 C
big table full of $1.50 ones, Monday, only each JC
Shoulder Shawls.
Worth fifty cents on sale Monday at
each
Spring Suits.
Visit our second floor on Monday an1 see the greatest dis
play of New Spring Suits shown in Omaha many exclusive
styles and all the very newest models.
Black Dress Goods.
Tretty new Black Voiles, 4(J inches wide, the right
finish, at, yard, $1.50, $1.25 and
New Black French Cloths.
A very handsome assortment of those ever fashionable
dress materials at, yard, $3, $2.50, $2, $1.75 and
Black Dress Goods Special.
46-inch Creponette, Mistral, Panamas, Etamines, Vestings, French
Crepes, Henriettas, Sicilians, Mohairs and Granites. 7 C
Goods in this lot worth to $1.50 yard, for Monday, yd. . .
At the Big Wash Goods Dept.
,We want everybody to visit this department Monday and see
all the new, dainty wash goods, at such very low prices.
Three Big Specials for Monday
No. 1 Oxford Suitings A number of very pretty new
Oxford Suitings, worth to 40c yard, Monday, yard
No. 2 All the new French Suitings, very nobby goods,
worth to 50c per yard, Monday per yard
No. 3 All our very swellest Scotch Suitings, new Fancy O
Voiles these are worth 35c yard special Monday yd. IOC
At the Domestic Counter
60-inch bleached and unbleached Table Damask, ail ' I O
new patterns, worth G5c yard, Monday per vard C
72-inch bleached Table Damask, in the very latest pat
terns, worth 80c yard, special, only per yard
25 dozen all linen bleached Table Napkins, size 24x24,
worth $2.50 dozen, special sale, only per dozen
50 dozen Turkish Towels, unbleached, extra heavy and
very large,, special for Monday each .
500 yards Glass Toweling, worth 10c yard, Monday,
only per yard. I
1,000 pieces new A. F. C. Toile de Nord Ginghams, new Percales,
Nurses' Ked Cross Ginghams, at per yard A
12c and . . 1UC
10c
59c
1.75
,.18c
7c
A Few Notions from Our Notion Dept.
Wlr Hairpins
per i)iin h
Wlra llHirpInn two cabinet
assorted for
Spring Hooks and Eyes
rani
ARiite. Pearl and Metal Buttons
per card
I)HrnlnK KgB each
10o and
JrnniiiK Wax
tick
Safety Pins per dozen
from 10c down to
lc
5c
2c
5c
5c
2c
3c
Bonn Hnlrplns
per floit-n
Toilet Pins
box itln'Unsr lira Id. all colors, warranted,
6-yard pieces per piece
All wool Mrtish lilndlng Hrald
per yard
10c
2c
9c
5c
50 dozen Hulr Ttnihen, Tooth
Nail Urushi-s, worth up to HTw
each each
Brushes,
25c
BIB
ypi in.n. lamLiiiiiiiaiw
I BUSY YEAR FOR BUILDING
Omaha on Verge ef Period of Unuiual
AotiTitj in Oonntructioo.
MAtlY LARGE BUILDINGS WILL GO IP
Arrhitecta ! Contractara ' a Rale
Look (or Heaaoa ( IVemarkav
able tirowta for
Omaha.
If all the plana for building now under
consideration are carried out Omaha will
aee this year one of the. busiest building
yearn alnre the old times of apurtous pros
perity. It U Hcnorally admitted that the
first manifestation of the aprltiK fevers Jn
Omaha Is a busy lot of conversation about
lurge and Important structures, which In
many c.tsea never pass the stage of a
rough draft In some architect's office. This
probably will be the case this year to some
extent, but the number of business and
residence properties which are practical
certainties la large enounh to make leading
builders predict busy times ahead. The
labor situation la said to be the best In
years and the market in structural ma,-
tcrlate Is somewhat more favorable. '
"You want to know If this la going to be
a building year?" said Architect John
Itcnser. '"Well, I can tell you that I
have more work fr which I am under
fctual contract to furnish plans this yeiir
than I have before Wen at this season In
Blxtcen years. Besides this, there Is of
course much work that Is merely in a state
of Investigation and from which -nothing
may cim The activity to found both in
private residence work and that for chari
ties and business houses."
John Mi-Ponald also finds his office with
more work than for several years and looks
for a good building souaon. Thejabor situ
ation seemed to him to be better than tt
hud been for some time and he thought the
fit Louia exposition would not much affect
the local labor market. In building ma
terial he thought that the rebuilding of
Baltimore might bring the steel firms
enough rush orders to make them a little
low In tilling other orders In some lines
of material. TI.e number of business blocks
so far planned he thought not alove the
normal, but there wwre more residences
and tlata building than for several years.
KM More Thaa Kormal.
Thomas R. Kimball was Inclined to think
that some (' ,the buildings In prospect
would K''t no further than paper.
"1 do not see any reason to look for more
t work than a normal building year brings
UV be kald. "Several buildings are going
jatlmt I know of. and numerous eanull
cottages, but nothing, I think, more than
we have In any year when the conditions
do not depress the builders, Krom a labor
B'JLttJpjv p n is,t5 uH Vuun age
years. St. Louis, I think, will have suffi
cient Interest to absorb the overabundance
of mechanical supply. In the structural
material market prices are Just now a little
more promising than they have been re
cently. Of course considerable building Is
going on we have sixty Jobs now but the I
office Is not busier than It waa at this time I
last year."
U. U Fisher of Fisher & Lawrle thought
that, while there waa not an especially
large number of business blocks certain
to be built, the number of smaller resi
dences In prospect was above the average.
The labor situation he considered as most
promising and he felt there would be no
holdup in building material.
F. H. Hennlnger is another architect
who looks forward to more than normal
activity. t
"Miire work Is being done," said J. B.
Mason, "than in five or six years. More
building Is now in prospect than there was
last year before the strikes caused most
of that to be dropped. The development
will be In all lines. The St. Louis exposi
tion will not interfere with work, for, no
matter how many workmen It takes away,
enough will come here from the towns in
the state."
Some Work on Aedltortam.
Among the. buildings begun during 1W3
snd yet to be completed Is the Auditorium.
All of the steel work and all of the brick
work is finished. The only men working now
are a few stone cutters who are chiseling
out the Corinthian capitals on the pilasters
which were put up unfinished In order to
save time. The next contract will cover
the building and place the doors and win
dows. The power house of the street rail
way company on Jones street will be one
of the most Important buildings to be fin
ished this year. The walls have been com
pleted and the steel trusses for the roif
placed and covered. Much heavy machin
ery will have to be Installed. The tele
phone exchange building soon will be fin
ished: The kwitchboarda now are being
placed. The monastery of the Poor Clares
on Hamilton street Is almost one-third fin
ished. The First Baptist church has a
good start, the basement walls being com
pleted. This Twenty-ninth avenue house
of worship will be finished in the summer
and dedicated in September. The Meth
odist Episcopal hospital in Bemis park has
Just been begun and It will be one of the
largest undertakings of the year. Th
white terracotta and buff brick building at
HOS Douglas street, put up under the direc
tion of the McCague Investment company
In place of the one which collapsed, has
reached the height of the cornice and the
roof will be finished as soon as the weather
moderates. The engine house at Eleventh
and Jackson has reached an advanced con
dition and will be early finished. The house
on Twenty-seventh street also is spnroach
Ing a finish. The Omaha club addition Is
completed except for some Interior decora
ting. For the Hygiea Creamery company
building at Eighth and Harney streets the
brick walls have been brought a little above
lh basement Una. Ail vor )be cltjt axe
residences and brick flats In a more or less
advanced state of construction.
Great Western. Terminals,
Among the pew hulldings, of which there '
seems a certainty, are the terminals of
the Chicago Great Western, west of the
Sixteenth street viaduct Houses are being
removed and grading done. Hayden Bros,
have the plans drawn for a ten-story
building on Douglas street and the work
of excavating was only stopped because at
the time it waa impossible to protect the
walls of adjoining property. ' J. L. Bran
dels tt Rons will remove the Oloncairne
hotel, west of the Toung Men's Chriatian
association building, and erect an addition
similar to the present stone structure.' The
Young Men's Christian association, having
sold Its building, is looking for a new lo
cation and will break ground before the
year Is ended. Thompson, Bidden Co.
have entered Into mnlrot with Oanrva
A. IToaeland for A. hntMtnr on the rnrnpr I
of his residence property at Sixteenth and
Howard. The plans are being drawn by
Architect John Ijttenser and the work of
preparing the ground will be , begun as
soon as the weather permit. A. I. Root
has the plans for a four-story building on
Howard street and is waiting for the
building season. The Ames estate build
ings on Jones street which were burned,
are to be early replaced by similar but
more modern structures Twamley & Son
will put up a large elevator as soon as the
frost is out of the-ground. The plans
have been completed and the firm has
options on several available sites. A. D.
Brandeis Is to put up a fine residence, the
plans calling for more than flO.Onu.
Many other projects are on foot which
at this time are not certain, but work on
which is probable. Allen Bros, probably
will make an addition to the Kingman
property at Tenth and Farnam streets.
The Kingman people will in that case build
east of this new building, although this
work msy not be done this year. Beebe
Runyan Furniture company, has been
trying to Interest additional capital for
the building of an eight-story factory and
warehouse on land at Ninth and Dodge
streets, which they have Just purchased.
They hope to begin operations this year.
Hoiuaa Catholic Cathedral.
The Roman Catholic cathedral on For
tieth and Burt streets is another probabil
ity for the year. The First Christian
church may be begun; the plans were long
since made and the land purchased. The
Young Women's Christian association has
plans drawn for a flve-story building and
Is canvassing for additional fund. Mer
riam oV Hnlmqulst, so it Is rumored, may
erect a second large elevator In addition
to these there are constant rumors of build
ings to be put up opposite Boyd s theater
In one direction or another, in three places
on South Sixteenth street, on Iouglas and
elsewhere. In addition to these there
have been various out-of-town Investors
here to see what advantages the city offers
for elevatora, flour Bdllg and mail hguaea.
1IARDI CRASFROMllE INSIDE
3te rymakinu In New Orleans the Tour is
Most Eeaioh For.
FANCY PRICES TO SEE THE SHOW
Presents Showered on Lucky Clrls In
Parades and at Balls Time of
Kxpense for Native as
Well as Visitor.
All roads lead to New Orleans these days,
and people on pleasure bent are moving
thither. ,
The season of the Murdl Gras Is on and
Tuesday nittht wi.ll see Its finish.
There's only one thing really necessary
to anybody hankering for a eight of the
Mardi Ora. That Is a not uncertain
amount of shekels.
Armed with a fat pocketbook and shod
with good stout walking shoes, you may
approach the Crescent City at carnival
time in a reasonably serene frame of mind.
The shoes will come In hunrty as an Irish
man might say for the purpose of walking
the streets in search of a room.
The fat pocketbook will then be your
taking card. At carnival time you pay 10
a day for the privilege of occupying a room
with the wife of your bosom or without
her either, for that matter.
If your wife will bunk in with a half
dosen similarly detached females and you
will take a shakedown In the hall, you will
materially reduce your expenses. Also
your comfort. It is ridiculously easy to
reduce your comfort In New Orleans at
Mardi Gras time.
When the first expansive lanolady
"daughter of one of the old Creole fam
ilies," she carefully Informs you, where
upon you must, look properly Impressed
and must not wink the other eye until she
turns her back when this ample and amia
ble creature she is invariably ample, and
amiable asks you X a week for her big,
bare, musty, dingy room, your first Im
pulse will be to say something real cutting
about Broadway prices for Bowery goods.
Maybe you will ask her If she hasn't mixed
things and Imagines she's In New York
when the name really la New Orleans. One
can be so clever with the right provocation.
If you do try anything of that sort the
amiable daughter of a hundred Creoles will
regard you with a pained expression and
explain in her own way that the law of
supply and demand is the one lam which
Isn't affected by the reign of the Lord of
Misrule. You and a thousand other men
will be glad to pay tr) a week before mid
night. If you don't want the room at that
price, here's a family of six or a party of
eight ladies from Brookryn o will be
glad to get it.
You may be lucky enougn, by engaging
accommodations In advance, to get a room
too particular: In aJiy case, once provided
with a room and blessed with enough spare
change left over to buy yourself some of
the good things to eat for which New Or
leans Is famous, you may then see , the
carnival and welcome.
That la, you may see the outside, the
whole outalde, and nothing but the out
side, unless you are more favored than
the ordinary traveler. If you want to see
Hie Inside of the Mardi Gras festivities, put
jcrlp as well as shekels in your purse. Let
your .scrip be in the form of letters of In
troduction. The brighter the name at the
head and the bigger the name at the bot
tom, the better it will be lor you.
As the north the froien north, as they
are fond of saying down there knows the
carnival, it consists of two or three street
parades Just preceding M ard I Clias (Fat
Tuesday) aaid on the night of that day
several balls. To one of these, the Rox
ball, Tom, Dick s-nd Harry and De Courcey
get tickets with very little difficulty, aud
De Courcey gives bis ticket to a man from
Chicago.
To Uie other ball, Comus by name, De
Courcey get a ticket, which be does not
give away. Tom. Dick and Harry and
the man from Chicago chew their cigars
and hope that their wives haven't heard
about Comus or -whatever it Is. For there
are no tickets to the Comus ball lying
around loue.
Am Early Mart.
The real carnival, however, the carnival
as the New Orleans people know it, be
gins away back on the night of January 7,
when the exclusive Twelfth Night ball
takes place.' To the frozen North the
carnival then seems almost as far off as the
Fourth of July.
The Twelfth Night ball really Is only an
advance agent, though It is followed by a
rush and whirl of private functions
luncheons, dances, receptions and several
subscription germana. In New Orleans
they don't Bay cotillon; they say germ&n.
About two weeks before Mardi Gras the
fun grows faster and more furious. The
series of famous masked balls begins with
the Knights of Mithras, the FalHtaffians,
the Elves of Oberon.
Next comta the last week before Mardi
Gras and into It are crowded three more
balls, still mure Important than those of
the previous week. These are the Momus
ball, the Atlanteans -and the so-called Car
nival German. In exclusively- they rank
in the order named.
Monday night comee the Proteus ball and,
finally, on Mardi Gras plght, are the Rex
and Comus balls. The Rex affair Is for
the h'U pollol of tourists. It Is Just a crush
where you will see every imaginable va
riety of costume, from irreproachable even
ing clothes to draggled rainy-day skirts
and shabby waists. Ilex and his o.ueen
put In an appearance at this ball, but
promptly leave ugain, going over to the
Comus affair.
With the exception of the Hex ball all
these events, occur In the French opera
lot U a day or vta less, if you aje notjguaet wLera a special Soar U laid. The
amount of preparation Involved is enor
mous. It must be remembered that these are
not simply dances. Bach ball opens with
the entrance of the king and the queen
and their court. Rex and his consort are
called king and queen of the carnival.
But there is a lesser pair of nwnarchs at
each ball.
Look at the Bills.
As soon as the court Is seated the pageant
begins. It Is really more than a pageant
It Is an elaborate pantomime.
Hundreds and sometimes thousands, of
dollars' worth of scenery, costumes and
properties are used in each of these pa
poants. The Comus and Rex balls cost
from $30,000 to $50,000 apiece. The king's
rohj-s and Jewels often cost $1,500, whllo
their courtiers are got up at a cost of from
$50 to several hundred dollars each. The
meir are all masked, but no woman Is.
Several weeks before a ball the famous
call-out cards begin to , reach the society
girls, every one of whom, is on tiptoe with
eager expectation. To be showered with
call-out cards that la ,-the. absolute test of
social popularity.
These caids come by mall and the girl
receiving one hasn't the slightest clue to
the Identity of the sender. The card is a
printed form with blanks, which are filled
In respectively with the girl's nume and
the masquer s number. The reply Is to be
sent to a certain lock box In the general
postofflce. The number of the dance for
which this card Is a all-out Is also speci
fied. After the pageant which opens every
ball Is over, the fortunate possessors of
call-out cards are seated around the
dancing space snd the masked men group
themselves In the middle of the floor. The
members of the committee confer with a
masquer and then announce: "No. 7 Is
called for," or whatever the number miiy
gold and enamel pin made especially for
the occasion and bearing the name and
colors of tho ball. Dunce seven robs tho
courtier of Ills rh I nest one necklace.
Dance eight costs him a gauntlet glove,
and dunce nine takes Its mate. Dance ten
rips a glittering buckle from hlu shoe and
eleven robs him of the other.
And so It goes. When he has reached a
point where further encroachments upon
his costume are impossible, or at least
inadvisable, the courtier has recourse to a
stock of trinkets laid In for tho occasion.
Meanwhile the lucky possessors of many
call-out cards are heaping up their plunder
in a wild ecstacy of acquisition. They .
know that some of these gorgeous knights,
who have Just been giving expensive pres
ents right and left as If they had real in
comes to match their fictitious titles, have
been saving for a solid year In order to
make this one mad, delirious splurge.
They know that on Ash Wednesday these
poor young men will vow that they have
been thoroughbred Idiots. But it Is royal
fun now and ttfey also know that Inside of
a month the thoroughbred Idiots will be
saving for the next carnival and be satis
fied to do It.
The Inside of It.
' If you should happen to be near the Bos
ton club when the Comus parade parses
down Canal street on Mardi Gras evening,
you may see a bit of the carnival which
comes pretty near being a part of the In
side cf it. Seated on the tiers of benches
built out In front of the second story of
the clutf house will be the Queen of tint
Comus ball attended by her maids of honor.
In (seeing her you will sue the most envied
girl for the moment fn New Orleans. Kven
to bo queen of the carnival Itself Is no so
great a mark of hoi. or as to be chosen
Queen of Comus.
Around the queen and her niufd.t will
doubtless be other girls belonging to the
be. Thereupon the girl holding a call-out smartest set of eoclety, end as the float
from "Masquer No. 7" for that dance goes
forward.
Gifts for tne Glrla.
At the close of each dance the courtier
presents to his partner some gift, and, no
matter how valuable or how eccentric it
may be, she is bound by carnival etiquette
to accept It, and, if possible, wear It forth
with. Thti first gift a courtier presents may be
the clasp which fastens his cloak. When
the clasp happens to be of g"ld or silver
and perhaps twinkling with brilliants It is
likely to give any girl a throb of pleasure.
After the next dance the cloak Itself nyiy
go. Once In a while a girl draws a stun
ning velvet cape, lined with ermine, which
she proudly permits her gallant to transfer
from his own shoulders to hers.
The velvet hat with its sweeping ostrich
plume msy be the third girl's prise. After
the fourth dance off comes the daxxMng
sword to be chivalrously laid in Beauty's
hands. Oh, they don't miss the chance for
pretty speeches, be sure of that.
Dance five, and the sword belt goes to
aautuer dumwl Diujce U eft cume
manned by their groups of gorgeously-clad
masquers, approach the club you uiuy see
these masquers become a prey to grtat ex
citement. One man scans the rank of gay faccn,
apparently searching for one In particular,
and having found the one he seeks, he
throws a packsiRe, with as good an aim lis
the Jolting lloat will permit, straight at her.
Generally It falls into the wrong girl's
Inp and then the masquers shakes his head
violently and trlrs to point o,it the girl f r
whom he Intended it. And the eag. r.
l.uiglilng young women pass it from lurid
to hand.
This one? No, no! Violent head shaking
by the masquer. Thl3? This? This? Ah:
beholds the lucky girl. For soinellme.i
these packages contain a Jeweled I In. a
bracelet, a ring) things which, at any but
carnival time, a man would not dire to
offer one of these girls. Nor kl:e dare t
accept. No wonder they are to glad to r.-.f
come the return of the Lord of Misrule.
It must rot be thoiiKht tlitit upon the
men devolves the entire i-xptnse cf gittjiii;
ready for Mardi Gras. The girl who Is In
society is expected to appear at each of tho
Uuve riadptU affairs
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