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VOL. XII, No. 11.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MIDSEASON'S GAYETIES
Carolina Cotillion Inaugurates Them
Most Delightfully.
JVoveltj and Surprise in Fig-urea Com
bine Happily with Favors
Appropriate to Season.
IDSEASON'S more for
A mal social gayeties were
f delightfully inaugurated
with Saturday's cotillion
at The Carolina, guests
from the other hotels and
cottages who assembled to enjoy the
affair, taxing the capacity of the music
hall. The program was one of novelty
and surprise and the favors happily
chosen and appropriate to the occasion
which flavored of St. Valentine's day.
The opening number was a grand
march led by Mr. E. S. Parmelee of
Whitney ville, Conn., and Miss Ethel
Check of East Orange, and the music,
Mr. John Philip Sousa's latest. A "Paul
Jones" two step with varying changes of
.grand right and left and double circles,
was followed by the "Merry Widow"
waltz favor figure, with butterfly orna
ments for the men and ribbon streamers
for the women.
Next came the u3Iagician's Delight"
two step, which proved one of the hits
of the evening, an article being collected
from each of the women in a tall hat,
which was later held aloft while the men
drew the articles forth, one at a time, and
hunted out the owners for dances.
Roses, bows, hair ornaments, rings,
necklaces, handkerchiefs and a long pink
scarf made up the collection, the scarf
the first to be drawn forth and so appro
priate to the idea that it called a ripple
of applause throughout the hall. In the
second half the plan was reversed, the
men contributing and the women draw
ing, and everything from a cigarette to a
seal ring found its way into the "stove
pipe."
The "Puss in the Corner" figure was
run off in four parts to the music of
"Harrigan", a favor figure waltz, with
canes for the men and tiny fans for the
women, following. Next in order was
the "Maypole" dance, partners being
selected at the close of the figure by
unraveling the ribbons which were made
very deceptive owing to the fact that
they were of different colors at opposite
ends.
The potato race was given in a slightly
new form in that the over supply of
men were first called upon to carry them
across the hall and deposit them at the
feet of the women, making a sufficient
number of return trips to transfer them
across the hall on tablespoons, and it
was slip, slide and rush throughout, the
participants apparently enjoying it as
much as the onlookers ; the unfortunate
"leftovers" being obliged to dance to
gether. The toy favor figure waltz re
sulted in a perfect bedlam of noise and
confusion through the distribution of
rachets, horns, wind buzzers and har
monicas and which broke out, inter
mitently, during the remainder of the
evening.
A decided novelty was the "Will you
be Mine?' two step in which very co
quettish young women held behind
them, in either hand, a bright red heart
and a monster blue mitten, signifying
either "yes" or "no", and the men who
Home'.' waltz just as the clock chimed
the midnight hour.
Details of ' arrangement were in the
hands of an active committee including
Mrs. Leonard Tufts, Miss Priscilla Beall
and Miss Ethel Check, assisted by Mrs.
Booth Tarkington and Mrs. J. Living
ston Grandin. At the favor tables were
Mrs. Allan Lard of Washington, and Mrs.
Grandin, Mrs. John M. Hood, Jr., and
Miss Edith Macleod. The Carolina or
chestra furnished music and refresh-
mf nts were served at intermission.
The list of participants included Mrs.
Leonard Tufts, Mrs. E. L. Morandi, Miss
Dorothea Joyce and Miss Lucy K. Priest
of Boston, Mrs. Herbert L. Jillson of
Worcester, Mrs. Booth Tarkington of
Indianapolis, Miss Claire Lindsav of
New York, Miss S. House of Troy, Miss
Ethel S. Check of East Orange, Miss
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READY FOR THE CHASE.
passed in line before the group, found it
very difficult to select the heart, espe
cially when sleight of hand tricks were
performed with the emblems, contrary
to rules. And, strange as it may seem,
every man who "got the mitten" blushed
awkwardly as he made his way back to
the end of the line to await a second
trial. The familiar wheel figure was
carried out to two step music.
Appropriate to the season was the St.
Valentine's favor waltz, with monster
sleeve hearts for the men and large sil
ver hair ornament arrows for the
women, followed by the Cinderella two
step in which partners were selected by
dainty slipper toes which peeped forth
beneath a curtain. The blindfolded
figure in which men circled about blind
folded women was most perplexing, the
program concluding with "Home Sweet
Helen Richards of Montclair, Miss E.
Houston of New Bedford, Miss Priscilla
Beall of Uniontown, Miss Harriett Hor
ton of Williamsport, and Miss Belle Con
ley of Brooklyn. Messrs. Edward R.
Pooley, R. W. Pooley, Joseph Upton
and L. O. Passovant of Philadelphia, J.
V. Hurd, Clifford S. Heinz of Pittsburg,
Edward Beall of Uniontown, J. S. Lind
sey, II. E. Foster of New York, E. L.
Schofield of Stamford, E. S. Parmalee
of Whitneyville, Rodney Derby of Fitch
burg, Paul E. Gardner of Chicago, and
Dr, Myron W. Marr of Dorchester.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Spring-.
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Merrill of Boston,
are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Spring at their private bungalow.
R. H. WILLIS THE WINNER
Captures Weekly Handicap Trap Shoot
ing Event with Fast Score. !
Paul IS. Gardner, jr. Cashing Todd
and P. Iff. Powel are Well up
Among- leaders.
HE weekly handicap trap
shooting tournament for
the Country Club trophy
developed some fast
work, R. H. Willis of
Penns Grove, N. J.,
whose handicap was ten leading with a
net score of ninety-four, two- targets in
the lead of Paul E. Gardner 6f Chicago,
(10), who scored ninety-two.;
J. Cushing Todd of Newburyport,
(10), was third in ninety-one and P. H.
Powel of Newport, (5), winner of last
week's shoot, fourth in .ninety, Mr.
Powel making the high gross score of
the afternoon, an eighty-five to an
eighty-four from Mr. Willis. ,
I. C. Bates Dana of Great Barrington,
(15), made eighty-nine, F.- L. Tyler-of
Sheepshead Bay (12), made eighty-five
andN. R. Bonney of Norwich, N. X
(10), eighty-two.
THE SCORES. '
The event was shot in strings of two
fifteens and twenty and repeated.
Willis
Gardner
Todd
Powel
Dana
Tyler
Ponney
9
12
12
12
13
11
12
17
15
15
17
13
14
14
20 84
15 82
10
10
10
5
15
12
10
94
92
91
90
89
85
82
INTERSTATE HIGH AVERAGES.
The Interstate Association has just is
sued the official shooting averages for
the year 1908, some seven thousand
names in all on the list which covers all
records made in registered tournaments.
C. M. Powers of Decatur, 111., leads
the amateurs with five thousand three
hundred and eighty-three targets broken
out of five thousand six hundred and
ninety shot at, or an average of ninety
four and six tenths per cent. G.C.Spencer
of St. Louis, leads the professionals with
ninety-six and seventy-seven one hun
dredths per cent.
Below are printed the full scores of
the. first twelve amateurs i
Broke Shot at P.O.
M. Powers, Decatur, 111., 5,383 5,690 .9460
Wm. Veach, Falls City, Neb., 2,367 2,505 .9440
D; J. Holland, Moberly, Mo., 6,096 6,485 .9400
(Concluded on Pag 4)