All Deauville and Trouville turn ed out to see the children's fancy dress ball at the Casino yesterday afternoon. One couple represented chickens fresh from the egg, all in soft yellow marabout. A child of seven in an 18th century costume looked ike an animated Dresden China figure. The son of the Aga Kann, a boy of eleven or thereabouts, came as a knight in glittering green armour, and some tiny boys in rich Chinese dresses were much admired—and spoiled. Very up-to-date was a little girl arrayed as a Sandwich Islander. Her darkened skin was bare to the waist, except for two medallions of rus plait, and she wore a ski rushes. She was pronounced enough to eat." A boy of nine in royal blue broadcloth impersonated a dandy of Louis Philippe's time, and a Persian dancer in silk and lace went hand in hand with the tiniest of ballerinas in a tulle ballet skirt and silver corsage.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.