For many urs the Custemns Cluly have given a series of Saturday nis dances wale entertainments has of late years been the custom make the List the seas: dance, and accordingly on Saturday the Wall room in the C ity Jwasty the best. dand Evsty was filled with a happy suicers in fancy dress, repre ce turies and many Christmas decorations whi converted the entrance all and stairewe and clu into. struct res of solid maxomy were retained, while over the dais the words An Reroir in gobi letters reminded thy revellers that another summer would have passed before they would to chase the flying hours with t feet, The music was as usual exe Mr, Kosca being at the piano with violins to supplement him, 'The floor was perfect order, being assiduously swept at Intervals bya conscientious coolie and most busy and effective clown. Tu the ante-room there was a constant sup Hight refreshments, while ast supper of excellent' quality was in the downstairs verandah, The stewards, the ubiquitous and iedefatizable secretary Mr. A. Smith, and the master of the ceremonies, who were all in avenin; dress with susiies and badges, were autiving efforts tuo comfort. of the 9 guests ¢ in fae was left undone that could help' ton the croning a complete als there were nearly twenty dances on the pros gramme the Gveive o'clock rule had perforce to be made a little elastic; but Vsabbatarian could not have tide of Saturday officially ended and Sunday bes:
Tf an accurate list were kept of all the and if such a list were at our disp t have a little hope of being able to select the most ne worthy without making many se jus; but we have to rely on a ory confused by the very kaleidosi of the scene, and while acknowledging how partial and incomplete our record is, we must throw ourselves on the mercy of the kindlier sex. Noticeable among the ladies og well as among the men were the performers in the spectacle lately given by the French A.D, C., L'Qurs of fe Pacha, who had arranged 0 come in the Stage costumes designed for them by Madame Reitrop, and remarkably elective and very gracefully worn these costumes were. There were one or two other Tarkish costarness, too, admirably de: ea, and executed with taste.as we lnitliance. Of the single cost Was none more attractive and artistic than that of a Jepanese mousiness, but so fair and sweet a face was real phed_as they have been.
any Columbias and Liberties with various arrangements of the Stars and Stripes, but there was one dark-haired daughter of the gods, divinely tall and most divinely fair," who stood out far above all her rivals, Another daughter of the Gods, in a light-green robe, herself radiant with youth and Inauty, might hare come straight from ap dental' in the Par-then on, France) was most charmingly represented by x well-conceived tri ud there was a demure Salvat ie who ight have had as many dis as she in the sober presentment of a nurse, but there was happily no Mrs, Gamp with whom to. contrast her, There were several of the gaily w tired girls the seth, rity and refinement Deum: that pio fs of her success, tas Di and Polly, and tive they were, There was a charming and fair Snowball, with an ally char sister, Aa Beefeater, and a vivacious Volunt these are only a few of the frocks that flashed to and fro nud round, urged by by Mr. Kosca's Sunflowers were there, and one also "heard the trailing garments of the N ep through her marble halls jo there wasa tall suiby-wirl who might well have enchanted Billy Taylor, and been made first lieutenant of the gallant Thunderbomb; and anon one came across a fascinating Kate Greenaway cost un Among the men there was no better repre-hat of Joe Chamberlain with eye-prebid, and the fox's nose with which F.C. Gould has familiarized us, Many capital khaki costumes there were, and a most realistic cowboy, Of disznises, which were rare, the most' successful was the Frog; but'the Sikh was good, and so were the old Darkey, and the Fireman, and there was one kilt' bat on the whole the men, as was to he expected, were far outdone by the ladies, Exrly in' the ing the fireball rang, and ma the men had to hurry off to duty, which ted by those who had 1 ed to Gl their programmes. earl now rushed eagerly to console the de: fair ones, The whole entertainment will xo down in the records of the Customs one of the most successful of its Correspondence,
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