The Omaha
Bee
UNDAY
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PAGES 11 TO 20. j
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1871.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MOIINIXO, FEHKUAISY 14, 1904.
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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
FOK VARIETY, BEAUTY OF DESIGN, BRIL
LIANCY OF CUTTING, our line OF KICI1 CUT GLASS
IS UNSURPASSED IN THE WEST.' There's a CLAMOR
ING of the leaeliog cutters and importers to secure our or
ders. WE ARE THE FIRST TO SEE THE NEWEST
AND LATEST, nnd we are pretty sure that the prices we
secure are a bit less than the ordinary dealers can hope to
Bee u re. ,
The newest things out at the closest cut figures is the
twofold rule in our cut glass section.
FIVE TIMES GREEN TRADING STAMPS FOR ONE
ON ALL PURCHASES OF CUT GLASS. TRICES FROM
25C TO $75.00. MONDAY ONLY.
ON EVERY TOILET SET OF A VALUE OF $2.50
OR MORE WE WILL GIVE TEN DOLLARS' WORTH
EXTRA OF GREEN TRADING STAMPS.
No. 2 Lamp Chimneys, each ..3c
Thin Blown Table Tumblers, each ' 2Jc
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, trebled hnd quadrupled tlie pivInR of the LITTLE
GREEN STICK Ell Jn those nenwitionnl Mies that have marked time
In your money savins during the week. TOMORROW AND SUBSE
QUENT DAYS WE WILL til V E THE PUBLIC PALATE MORE. The
GREEN TRADING STAMPS IS ONLY ONE of the minor attractions
that draw the Hhoppinjr thousands to this biggest of "big stores." .
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 Green Trading Stamp sensatiors. Keep watching every
Bennett advertisement It's never anybody's but Bennett's, never garbled
from State street,' ChicagoIt's Bennett's.
You will strike it rich during the coming week. Strike It very rich,
tomorrow, Monday. Every department manager is enthusiastic in his
work, and In every department, there's sure to be "soiuethlu' do!n'"l
A' WALL PAPER SENSATION
Double dreen Trading Stamps to Every Wall Paper Buyer.
Good White Blanks, np from.'. ... 3c
.. 7c
GOc
Good Gilts, with 9 or 18-lneh border, made to retail at 15c and 20c
Monday and Tuesday .' .'
All fall styles In Tapestries, Bilks, Embossed Qolds and Moires that
old aa high as $1.00 a roll
Soda. Fountain!
Monday Special at the
Soda Fountain
ftesselrode Pudding
Charlotte Russe
French Drip Coffee
Tolu Ice Cream Soda
These are not fancy names but
FANCY DRINKS originated by out ex
pert dispenser.
MAIN FLOOR.
Dnigs! Drugs!
Attractions In Drug Section
at Bargain Prices
Colgate's Talcum rowder, In cashmere
Bouquet or violet, iSf!
per box . 1UW
(Sample Free.)
Chamois Skin Soap, 2Sc
per bar
3 bars In box , 60o
Sohlitz' Mnlt Extract, a strengthener nnd
a nourisher, H pint bottles, gf)
per divzen v
Malt Nutrine, V, pint. 2.25
per dor TiLT
1 bottle... ? litc
Pabst Malt Extract, V, pint 2.25
bottle, per dozen V!ZT
1 bottle 'Ms
Welsh's Grape Juice. 1 pint 25C
bottle
OREEN TRADING STAMPS
EVERY TIME.
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Hardware
Here are some extra
ordinary snaps in Cutlery
Scissors and Razors.
V
We have an overstock of these
fine gootln. We make a special
cut Monday. 4 '
Ladies' Scissors, 4 in 10c
Ladies' Scissors, 4J in..'...12c
Ladies' Scissors, 5 in. . . . 14c
These are strictly warranted
goods. -
Razors
Black rubber handle, extra tine,
hollow ground, J in. or g in.
blade, regular price is $2.25;
Monday the razor is yours
sir, at 1.50
Star Safety Kazor, the $2.00
'world renowned Star Safety
Monday for. . . 1.30
Woodcnware
High Folding Clothes Bar.65c
Strong (i-ft. Ladder 45c
20x:?(i Lapboard, only 32c
18x22 Iiread Hoard... 23c
4-hnok Hall Hack) Triple
Hooks . .' .19c
G in. Towel -Hinar . .5c
va
Dorothy Bodd
The Faultless Fitting Shoe for Women.
Perfection of style
and absolute comfort
guaranteed.
Durability with a wpnr.
nblptipsg that k(yps nil
the Initial features IN
TACT FOR A LONG H II
TIME THAN THE OIl
DINARY woman's slioa
will koop together. THE
DOROTHY DODD shoe
1b the ldenf shoe for wo
men. With ordinary
care it will look aa good
at the end of 13 WEEKS
aa when you first put
your foot Into it.
All our' spring styles are note on exhibition;
all leathers, all styles, all dreamingly cute
maces you feel young- perennially young to wear a Dorothy Djdd Shoe.
Oxfords, $2.50 and $3.00
, l. JShoes, $3.00 and $3.50
Fast color ejreleU in every shoe.' 1
A "Capitol" Sensation!
The next great GREEN TRADINO STAMP SENSATION that Is going
to make you notice that every second woman you meet on Sixteenth street
has a OREEN TRADING STAMP COLLECTING HOOK In her hand-you've
ee.m this before will be pulled oft SOME DAY THIS WEEK. Soon as we
have perfected our plane we get the town ringing with another "turrible"
GREEN TRADING STAMP boost There will bo DOLLARS t PON DOLLARS
UPON DOLLARS of GREEN TRADING STAMPS on a very ordinary purchase
vi mime very ordinary staples that are extraordinary good values.
Watch Our Ads! Watch- Our Ads!
In the Relm of Art
Just Made a Big Purchase of Metal Photo
Frames, the Latest Designs.
1 000 all sizes. In gold and black, worth 75o of anybody's money, on 25C
' sale Monday at only, each ''", I" j o
BOO Meti4 Photo Frames. In beautiful gold and black, newest 4oC
shapes, worth a round dollar anywhere, Monday lor
Other Framed, exquisite, stunners, for the price of 4t5C
$10.00 down to $1.25, 11.10, b5c, TSo and "
PYROGR A.PIIY
600 Rig Panels. Dutch Hoys. Dutch Girls. Golf Girls Jap Girls. Soubrettes, sell
regularly at 76c: Monday we make a sensational 4fC
sacrillce at, each
Practice Tlacques, big, handsome,' lC
each ! 1 no
Date Racks, Antique, Old English and Puritan LvO
Styles, each '
furniture
You never heard of Buch
values as thesel
Tli Hi firs Golden oak 6-Toot
tp tLV extension, fine fin-
lames ished-vaiue4 qc
$7.00. for TtJO
Parlor Tnre"Plecemaho
c any finished, cov
auIIS ered with nios da.
mask sells regular- CA
ly at $16, for IleaJU
Cnuches Golden oak
OUCIieS rpame, deep tuft
ing, spring edges, covered
with velour sells AA
regularly for $8.73.... U.UU
t, . Steel frame wov-
Springs en wiret qc
good value at $2.73 ! J
PittinC Golden oak, braoe
. arms, cane seat
nairscneapal
$1.03-for
1.45
Enamel
Beds
Continuous posts, al 1
color combinations
ells regu- O Cf)
larly at $14, Monday for
Side Golden oak, French
. plate mirror, abundant
boards l0B6t room ? ca
cheap at 18, for
Dnrlrorc Golden oak or ma
rt r-a hogaDy finUh. sad-
ished regular value W.50
DfcSSerS Golden oak, . large
nrejBeM Frenctl m 1 r r r'
uresscrs Berpentine front
sells regularly at $18, 13 50
at .......... .... '
Comer Mahogany finished
PI . irames, coverea wna
ells regularly for $7.2j..
die seat, pol- 'Z A
4.95
1.00
1.50
Muslin Underwear Sale oi Our 2nd Floor
Chemise at 25c.
We have about 25 dozen lino Chemise left out-of onr January
sale that got mussed and a little soiled worth up
to ?l eaeh, sizes 34 to 44, all go Monday each iJL
$1 Worth of Grtcn Trading- Stamps With Each Chemise.
Wrappers.
A good Percale Wrapper, in blues and blacks, worth Q
fl.00, Monday each TC
Dressing Sacqucs.
Another cut price sale on fine IMderdown Sacqucs a 7
big table full of $1.50 ones, Monday, only each
t
Shoulder Shawls.
Worth fifty cents on sale Monday at C
each Ltj
Spring: Suits.
Visit our second floor on Monday and see the greatest dis
play of New Spring Suits shown in Omaha many exclusive
styles and all the very newest models.
Black Dress Goods.
Pretty new Black Voiles, 4( 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 material at, yard, Jf3, $2.50, $2, $1.75 and
Black Dress Goods Special.-
4G-inch Creponelte, Mistral, Panamas, Ktamines, Vestings, French
Crepes, Henriettas, Sicilians, Mohairs and (Sranites, 7
Goods in this lot worth to $1.50 yard, for Monday, yd. . . JC
At the Big Wash Goods Dept.
,We want everybody to visit this department Monday and see
all the new, daiuty wash goods, at such very low prices.
Three Big Specials for Monday
No. 1 Oxford Suitings A number of very pretty new f A
Oxford Suitings, worth to 40c yard, Monday, yard 1IC
No. 2 All the new French Suitings, very nobby goods, 'JC
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, all ' AjCn
new patterns, worth (55c yard, Monday per yard C
72-inch bleached Table Damask, in the very latest pat
terns, worth 80e 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 Class Toweling, worth 10c yard, Monday,
only per yard. ,
1,000 pieces new A. F. C. Toile de Nord Ginghams, new Tercales,
Nurses' Ked Crows Ginghams, at per yard f A
12Jc and . . 1UC
59c
1.75
:18c
7c
A Few Notions from Our Notion Dept.
Wirn Hnlrplns 4r.liann Tfnlrplns
per lumen I p;r dcizm
Wire Unlrplnn two cabinets
a ("ported rnr
Spring Hooks and Eyes
card Afriite. Pearl and Metal Buttons
per card
t)Hrtili)(t KggB each
Inn and
IronlnK Wax
tick
Safety Pins per doxen Jc
Irom 10o down to
5c
2c
5c
5c
2c
Toilet Pins-box
Binding Braid, all colors, warranted,
6-yniil pieces per piece
AH wool Brush Binding Braid
per yard
10c
2c
9c
5c
50 dozen Hair Bnihea, Tooth BrtiFhea,
Nail Brushes, worth up to iVic 2SC
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BUSY YEAH FOR BUILDING
Omaha on Verge ef Period of Unniual
Actirity in OongtmctloT.
MiY LARGE BUILDINGS WILL GO IP
Architect yjinil C'ontrartors m. Rale
Look for Baaon o( lUnMrkt
able Cirowtlt for
Omaha.
If all the plans for building now under
CoiiHldc, rat Ion are carried out Omaha will
ace this year one of the, busiest building
years since the old times of spurious pros
perity. It Is generally admitted that the
first manlrctitaUon of the spring fevers in
Omaha Is a huxy lot of conversation about
lingo and Important atructures, which In
many cases never pass the stage of a
rough draft In Home archlteft'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 is large enough to make leading
builders predict busy times ahead. The
labor situation is said to be the best In
years and the market In structural maj-
trrluHf la somewhat more favorable. I
"You want to know if this is going to be
a building year?" said Architect John
Itnser. '"Well, I can tell you that I
Lave more work fr which I am under
actual contract to furnish plans this year
than I havu before been at this season in
Blxtien years. Besides this, there Is of
course much work that Is merely in a state
of Investlg.nluji and from which -nothing
may roine. The activity to found both In
private residence work and that for chart
ties and business houses."
John McPonald also finds his office with
. more work than, for several years and looks
for a good building iuaan. Thejabor situ
ation settled to him to be better than it
1 had been for some time and he thought the
Pt. LouU exposition would not much affect
the local labor market. In building ma
terial ho thought that the rebuilding of
Baltimore might bring the steel Arms
enough rush orders to make them a little
slow in. tilling other orders In some lines
of material. The number of business blocks
so far planned he thought not above the
normal, hut there were more residences
and lists building than for several years.
Kit Mart Tkii Narasal.
Thomas R. Kimball was Inclined to think
that some of ,th biUMlng In prospect
would g-t no further than paper.
"1 do not see any reason to look for more
Work tlmn a normal building year brings
us," be k.ild. "r?everul bull llngs are going
ixtliat I know nf. and numerous small
ctiitagea, but nothing, I think, more than
we have la any year when, the conditions
do not depress the buildera t-'rom a labor
years. St. Ixnil. 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 hut the
office is not busier than It was at this time
last year."
U. I Fisher of Fisher A Lawrle thought
that, while there was 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
"More work Is being done," said J. B.
Mason, "than In Ave or si 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 Bt. 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 Auditorium.
Among the buildings begun during lnnj
and 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 ro if
placed and covered. Much heavy machin
ery will have to be Installed. The tele
phone exchange building soon will be fin
ished The switchboards now sre being
placed. The monastery of the Toor 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 )t will be one of the
largest undertakings of the year. The
white terracotta and buff brick building at
16 Pouglas street, put up under the dlreo
tlon of the McCugue Investment company
In place of the one which collapsed, has
reached the height of the cornice and the
roof will be finished as soon aa the weather
moderates. The engine bouse at Eleventh
and Jackson has reached an advanced con
dition and will be early finished. The house
on Twenty-seventh street also la aporosch
Ing a finish. The Omaha club addition is
completed except for some Interior decora
ting. For the Hyglea Creamery company
building at Eighth and Harney streets the
brick walls have been brought a little above
i&e fetaemeat U&e. Ail over lh citr as
residences and brick flats In a more or less
advanced state of construction.
Great Western Terminals.
Among the pew buildings, of which thert
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 wan only stopped because at
the time It was Impossible to protect the
walls of adjoining property. ' J. I Bran-
dels & Rons will remove the Glencairne
hotel, west of the Young Men's Christian
association building, and erect an addition
similar to the present atone 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. Belden A Co.
have entered Into a contract with George
A. Hoagland for a building on the corner
of his residence property at Sixteenth and
Howard. The plans are being drawn by
Architect John Iitenser and the work of
preparing the ground will be , begun as
soon as the weather permits. A. I. Root
has the plans for a four-story building on
noward street and Is waiting for the
building season. The Ames estate build
ings on Jones street which were burned,
are to bo 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. P.
Brandeia Is to put up a fine residence, the
plans calling for more than flo.ono.
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 Far nam streets.
The Kingman people will In that case bull.
east of this new building, although this
work may not be done this year. Beebe
A Runyan Furniture company, has been
trying to Interest additional capltat for
the building of an elght-Btory factory and
warehouse on land at Ninth and Dodge
streets, which they have Just purchased.
They hope to begin operations this year.
Roman 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 plana were long
since made and the land purchased. The
Young Women's Christian association has
plans drawn for a five-story building and
Is canvassing for additional funda. Mer
riam It Holmqulst, 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 Suth Sixteenth street, ou IMuglas and
elsewhere. In addition to these there
have been various out-of-town Investors
here to see what advantages the city offers
for levators, flour mills mi malt houses.
J1ARD1 GRAS FR051TI1E INSIDE
V'e rymakinrr. In New Orleans the Tour is
Hut Seaich For.
FANCY PRICES TO SEE THE SHOW
Presents Nhovrered on LacUy t5trls In
Parades and at Italia Time of
Expense for Native as
Well aa 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
Tuesda nlnht will see Its finish.
j There's only one thing really necessary
to anybody hankering for a sight of the
Mardl Gras. That In -a not uncertain
amount of shekels.
Armed with a fut pocketbook and shod
with good Mout walking shoes, you may
approach the Crescent City at carnival
time in a reaaonahly serene frame of mini).
The shoes will come In hany 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 110
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
doxen 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
Mardl Gras time.
When the first expansive lancflady
"daughter of one of the old Creole fam
ilies." ahe carefully Informs you, where
upon you must, look proiierly 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 )j0 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'a In New York
when the name really Is New Orleans. One
can be so clever with the right provocation.
If you do try anything of that aort 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 law which
Isn't affected by the reign of the Lord of
Misrule. You and a thousand other men
will be glad to pay $.') a week before mid
night. If you don't want the room at that
price, here'a a family of six or a party of
eight ladiea from Brooklyn wlio will pt
glad to get It.
You may be lucky enougn, by engaging
aocommodatlons In advance, to get a room
J Xor fa da, r va less, If you aia not
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 Is, you may see the outside, the
whole outside, and nothing but the out
aide, unloss you are mora favored than
the ordinary traveler. If you want to Bee
the Inside of the Mardl Gras festivities, put
ocrlp as well aa shekels In your purse. L.et
your .scrip be in the form of letters of In
troduction. The brighter the name at the
head and tho bigger the name at Uio bot
tom, the better it will be tor you.
As the north the frozen north, as they
are fond of Baying down there knows the
carnival, it consists of two or three street
parcdes Juat preceding Mardl Gras (Fat
Tuesday) and on the night of that day
Boveral balls. To one of these, the Rex
ball, Tom, Dick and Harry and De Courcey
get tickets with very little difficulty, and
De Courcey gives his ticket to a man from
Chicago.
To Uie other ball. Com us by noma, De
Courcey gets a ticket, which be does not
give away. Tom, Dick and Harry and
the man front Chicago chew their cigars
and hope that their wives haven't heard
about Camus or -whatever It la. For there
are no Uckots to the Comus ball lying
around louae.
An Early Start.
The real carnival, however, tha carnival
as the New Orleans people know It, be
gins away back on tho night of January 7,
when the exclusive Twelfth Night ball
takes place.' To the frozen North the
carnival then seems almost as far off aa 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 germans. In New Orleans
they don't say cotillon; they say german.
About two weeka before Mardl Graa the
fun grows faster and more furious. Ths
series of famous masked bails begins with
the Knights of Mithras, the Falstaffians,
the Elves of Oberon.
Next co mta the last week before Mardl
Gras and Into It are crowded three more
balls, still mure Important than those of
the previous week. These are tlie Momus
ball, the Atlanteans -and the Bo-called Car
nival German. In excluuivenesti they rank
In the order named
Monday night con-ins the Proteus ball and,
finally, on Mardl Gras night, are the Rex
and Comus balls. The Rex affair Is for
the hoi pollot of tourists. It la 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. ltex and his queen
put in an appearance at this ball, but
promptly leave ugain, going over to the
Comus a fl air.
With the exception of the Rex ball all
these events, occur In the French opera
lioue, where a svtclal floor la laid, Ike
amount of preparation Involved Is enor
mous. It must be remembered that these are
not simply dances. Each ball opens with
the entrance of the king and the queen
and their court. Rex and his consort Bre
called king and queen of the carnival.
But. there Is a lesser pair of monarch at
each ball.
Look at the Bills.
As soon aa the court Is seated the pageant
begins. It Is really more than a pageant
It Is an elaborate pantomime.
Hundreds nnd sometimes thousands, of
dollars' worth of scenery, costumes and
properties are used In each of fhese pa
geants. The Comus and Rex balla cost
from 130,000 to S50.0OO apiece. The king's
rohrs and Jewels often cost 11,500, while
their courtiers are got up at a cost of from
$M 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 Is the. absolute test of
social popularity.
These catds come by mall and the girl
receiving one hasn't the allghteRt clue to
tho Identity of the sender. The card is a
printed form with blanks, which are filled
In respectively with the girl's name 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 rail-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 and the marked men group
themselves In the middle of the floor. The
membera of the committee confer with a
masquer and then announce: "No. 7 is
called for." or whatever the number may
be. Thereupon the girl holding ft, call-out
from "Masquer No. 7" for that dance goes
forward.
Gifts for the Girls.
- 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. Th first gift a courtier presents may be
the clasp which fastens his cloak. When
the claHp 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 clouk Itself iruiy
go. (nice 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 ehoulde-ra to here.
The velvet hat with its sweeping ostrich
jilume may be the third girl's prize. After
the fourth dance off comes the dazzling
(word to I chivalrously laid in Beauty's
hands. Oh, they don't rtilss the chance fur
pretty speeches, be sure of that.
Dance five, and the aword belt goes to
auuUier ilamatl, Dacca tlx, oft comet jiis
gold and enamel pin made especially for
the occasion and bearing the name and
colors of the ball. Dance Heven lobs tho
counter of ills rhlnestone necklace.
Dance eight costs him a gauntlet glove,
and dance nine takes Its mate. Dance ten
rips a glittering buckle from his 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 haa recourse to a
stock of trinkets laid In for the occasion.
Meanwhile tjie 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 Juat been glvlm? expensive pres
ents right and left as If they had real In
comes to match their fictitious titles, have
been raving for a solid year in order to
make this one mnd, delirious cplurge.
They know that on Aah Wednesday these
poor young men will vow that they have
been thoroughbred Idiots. But It Is royal
fun now and tlfey also know that Inside of
a month the thoroughbred Idlota 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 passes
down Canal street on Mardl 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 stu.-y of
the club house will be the Queen of tho
Comus ball attended by her maids of honor.
In fcfelug her you will sea the most envied
girl for the moment In New Orl-ans. Kven
to bo queen of the carnival Itself la no mo
great a mark of hoi.or aa to be chosen
Queen of Comus.
Around the queen and her maid.-i will
dnubtleBS be other girls belonging to the
smartest set of society, nnd ns the floats
manned by their groups of gorgeounly-iiad
masquers, approach the club you muy aea
these masquera become a prey to gnat ex
citement. One man scans the ranks of gay faccn,
apparently searching for one In particular,
and having found the one he seeks, he
throng a package, with as good an aim tin
the Jolting float will permit, straight at her.
Generally It falls into the wrong girl's
lap and then the muKqucrs shakes his head
violently and trlfs to point o.it the girl for
whom he Intended It. And the 'ug r,
l.'.iiKhlng young women pass It from hand
to bend.
This one? No, no! Violent head ahaklnj?
by the masquer. This? This? This? AW.
beholds the lucky girl. For soinetlmei
thexe packages contain a Jeweled in, a
bracelet, a rlngi things which, at any h'i:
carnival time, a man would not d ira t
offer one of these rirln. Nor klie dare t
accept. No wonder they are co gl.nl to r.,?
come the return of the Lord of Misrule.
It must ret be thoiiKht thut iiuii the
men devolves the entire t-xpense of gctlmr
ready for Mardl Gras. The girl who la In
society is expected to appear at each of tho
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