Gay Evening at Cercle Sportif Representatives of the island nation celebrated joyously St. Patrick's Day at-the French Club last Friday night. The dancing jeer was packed with a big and merry throng of over 250 persons @t the ball organized by St Patrick's Society. Although the entertainment was of an informal nature, many of the mala guests wore the pictures que national costums of their country, and by way of giving the proper national atmosphere to the function an imposing portrait of St. Patrick decorated the end of the ballroom, festooned with a magnificent Irish banner inscribed in Gaelic, Ireland for ever. Greenery in the shape of a lavish profusion of bamboo sprays and silk was the only other simple but effective decoration.
The dance was preceded by dinner, at which Mr. J. J. Donne presided, supported by the ox-president of the society, Mr. D. P. Griffith. The chairman proposed the loyal toast, to which the guests most enthusiastically responded. singing the National Anthem, and "the pious and immortal memory of St. Patrick." After Mr. M. J. Timmins had proposed the toast of "Treland, our country," Mr. Donne referred to the life of Ireland's patron saint and the example which he set to their countrymen.
Then followed a long programme of excellent. dance music. A novel feature of the ball was the singing of Trish national songs and a harp solo by Mrs. Lavers. Mrs. Dunne sang the "Dear Little Shamrock" and another popular Hibernian air, "Just a Little Bit of Heaven." National dances wore also a prowinent part of the entertainment, including the almost forgotten Trish figure dance.
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