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NOON EDITION NOON EDITION THE PENDULUM, AN INTERESTING SHORT LOVE STORY BY O. HENRY, IS INSIDE , THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, - . no 500 South Peoria St Editor and Publisher. EllP 398 Tel. Monroe 353. VOL. 2, NO. 260 Chicago, Saturday, Aug. 2, 1913 ONE CENT WOMEN REVEL AT BALL COSTING A DARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS Sassiety of Newport and Narragansett Dance Until Dawn, Clad Chiefly in Twelve Million Dollars' Worth of Jewelry, and What the Fairies Wore at Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's .Ball. Newport, R. I., Aug. 2. The bar baric splendor of the most costly and luxurious ball ever given in the United Suites broke up here today as the dawn came creeping in from the East The -ball was the much-talked-of Mother Goose affair given by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish in her magnificent home of Crossways to the sassiety colonies of Newport and Narragan sett One quarter of a million dollars Is a conservative estimate of the cost of that one night's revelry, that would have shamed the Bacchanalians of ancient Rome. The costumes of the fairy charac ters assumed by the society women alone must have cost close to $100, 000. The supper that was served in the small hours of- the morning must have run up to nearly ten thousand dollars. Twelve million' dollars' worth of jewelry sparkled and scintillated on the bare, necks and arms of the women. The fact that the costumes were costly is not to be takea as a sign that there was very much of them. The fact is they were the most daring ever worn at a society affair is America. There were five hundred guests. They were arrayed, regardless oi cost to represent the characters ol Anderson's and Grimm's fairy tales.