Naughty Man Got Into Eden

NAUGHTY MAN GOT INTO EDEN

Attended the Girls' Fancy Dress Party

DISGUISED AS NEGRESS

Was Having Lots of Fun When Discovered - A Brilliant Social Function

The girls' fancy dress party at the gymnasium Friday night might have been a federation of the nations, for there were apparently gathered some out of every nation, together with a conglomeration of costume and color which made it had to tell who's who. 

At 9 o'clock the orchestra began the music for the grand march, which was led by Dr. Snyder and Miss Stewart. For twenty minutes a long serpentine line of girls wound in and out, and back and forth, and to and fro, until the fantastic streak of color resolved itself in patches -- and the waltz began. 

The crowd was small, noticeably so, but it was an enthusiastic gathering and sufficiently large for convenience. All that fable, fiction, song and story had to offer, were drawn on for costumes. There was the black gowned nun from the convent and the ballet dancer from the stage; there were children from the modern kindergarten and Greek maidens from out of the past; there was the cow puncher and the Colonial maiden; the char woman and the lady of quality; the Dresden shepherdess, the Southern mammy, and the United States lieutenant. And the rough rider of the West clinked his spurs into the train of the lady of quality; the white cheek of the nun lay against the blue coat of the lieutenant; the children jangled and quarreled over their dolls and cloth horses, blew their whistles in the face of a Sister and shook their rattles in the faces of the faculty. A pickaninny made goo-goo eyes at an Indian and the Indian raised his tomahawk against the Dresden shepherdess -- and they all seemed to enjoy it. The best made up and the best carried out presentation, was "Lieutenant" Chase. She was as good as a man, every bit, even as a partner in the dance. One of the most unique and fantastic arrays was worn by Miss Margaret Wedd, who for the evening was an Indian squaw, and se well became her part that some of her best friends did not recognize her. Miss Elizabeth Bush was probably the most beautiful girl in the room. In a Greek costume of snowy silk, she might have been a vestal virgin or a veritable goddess. Miss Mary Horton in a dress of pale yellow and a bewitching hat of black, represented the leading lady of the Empire Stock company. The most historical gown of the evening was a pink and greek striped silk work by Miss Lulu Abbott of Detroit, and was work by her grandmother on a state occasion in 1845. Miss Whitman was strikingly pretty in gray silk and Miss Ida Dibble in white lawn and Miss Pomeroy as a Greek maiden. Creora Cummings as a colonial girl attracted much attention, and also Miss Dickinson, of the Law department with a revolver thrust through her belt. A bunch of girls represented a deck of cards, and one little girl alone was little Red Riding Hood. Conspicuous in the crowd was the girl in the yellow and blue, and the Hollander with her turned back hat and ugly Dutch shoes. And this was the company that made the evening a pleasure; these girls, and still another who was not a girl--for a man invades this feminine paradise, and as an ol' black mammy enjoyed several dances with the other mammy who smuggled him in. Thus he ate of the tree of knowledge but his punishment was not yet. His expulsion from this Eden came about in a pitifully simple way. He led his partner to a seat, beside Mrs. Jordan. Foolish man. He sat down beside her and the dean's keen eyes say his angularity and muscularity and detected a few unfeminine poses, peculiar to man. It was enough. A few girls felt sorry because they had lost their best partner. All things moved calmly after this, through the serving of punch, the dancing of twenty numbers and a rollicking good time.