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around barefooted and sandalled,
looking like Bakst ballet dancers and
pictures from Meyers' "Ancient His
tory." Mrs. John Jacob Astor was Hera,
Irving Brokaw was Thoth, and vari
ous Harrimans Iselinses, Oelriches,
Tiffanys, Roots, Sperrys, et ai, were
a string of gods and goddesses whose
names are never mentioned in Sun
day school.
There was also a Mount Olympus
old Irv Cobb doesn't wish anybody to
think that he played the part on
which reclined Mrs. EUhu Root, Jr.,
,JVIrs. Le Roy Whitney, Mrs. Belmont
Tiffany, the Baron'es von Rosenthal,
Miss Margaret La Farge,MissSymph
orosa Bristed, Walter Damrosch and
others. '
When everybody danced and
pranced with 2,000 ordinary mortals
of earth looking on from boxes and
balconies, the gods and goddesses did
not seem- in tune with the synocopat
ed music,
Here was Manasa, goddess of
snakes, and her snakes dancing the
fox trot with Set, whose crocodiles
had been checked in the coat room
after they caused shivers to run up
and down some of the bare backs of
goddesses who, however, had noth
ing on Lady Godiva, Paul Revere and
other famous bareback riders.
There was Varuna, clasping in his
four arms a vision of divine beauty.
He just had to do it when he danced
with her to keep the gods from step
ping on her little bare toes.
Ouha, the Aurora of Hindu godol
oy, lost her veil while dancing, and
it was necessary to envelop her in
darkness while another veil costume
was brought from the depths of her
party bag.
Accidents will happen even to gods.
Didn't the tail of Anubis, who used to
conduct Nile funerals, get stepped
on? And Anubis knew nothing about
it until the lost and found bureau re
turned it to him.
Well, nobody can say the Ball of
ihe .Gods was a godless .party. For 1
$10,000 was raised for charity at a
cost of $200,000 for costumes, food,
liquors, and incidentals too numer
ous to outline.
COLORADO HAS ONLY QUAKER
CONGRESSMAN
1 C. B.jnM3T?.RriA3E1
In 1887 he took up a homestead
near Colorado Springs. Now he's
one of the wealthiest ranchers in the
state, and his district, the second,
sent him to congress. He's a Repub
lican and a Quaker.
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"DAZZLIN! TrT GALS."
Davey ElHas came down from the
Cog City to visit home folks for a
week. Davey is going to saw wood
during the day and smile at the pret
ty ghis during the evening as he had
several new gold teeth inserted of
late. Pomeroy (O.) Tribune-Telegraph.
"Oh yes!" smiled the optimistic
druggist, "there's an indirect profit
in selling postage stamps. Yon see
it gets the people into ,the habit of
going" to the drug store, and after
that it doesn't take long to make,
chronic invalids of them"-
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