Identifier: americanadventure00stre (find matches)
Title: American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home"
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ate organizations, and even thoseyoung ladies who are so fortunate as to have call-outs—cards inclosed with their invitations, indicating thatthey are to be asked to dance, and may therefore haveseats on the ground floor—are not supposed to knowfrom what man these cards come. . Ladies who have notreceived call-outs, and gentlemen who are not mcml)ersof the societies, are packed into the boxes and seats abovethe parquet floor, and do not go upon the dancing llooruntil very late in the evening. Throughout each ballthe members of the society giving the ball continue towear their costumes and their masks, so that ladies,called from their seats to dance, often find themselvestreading a measure with some gallant who speaksin a strange assumed voice, striving to maintain the 672 ^ ^ ^3 CLPen P■* c+ 0) ►!: o ^?? 3 g-G •-1 pcri P: °;.& Pj n> -!en l^^j. O 3^ ^ O _cn en p O ■-1 ^ G O^ CTQ O* C r. en ^ H-^ o O •-1 g O^ pT —. CI- ^* i O ^ en »-t o ^ 1 fD s ■a. ctq Q ^ en
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ANTOINES AND MARDI GRAS mystery of his identity. The ladies, upon the otherhand, are not in costume and are not masked; aboutthem, there is no more mystery than women alwayshave about them. After each dance the masker pro-duces a present for his partner—usually a pretty bitof jewelry. Etiquette not only allows, but insists, thata woman accept any gift offered to her at a carnivalball, and it is said that by this means many a younggentleman has succeeded in bestowing upon the lady ofhis heart a piece of jewelry the value of which wouldmake acceptance of the gift impossible under other thancarnival conditions. After the balls many of the younger couples go to theLouisiane and Antoines, to continue the dance, and asmy room at Antoines was directly over one of the danc-ing rooms of the establishment, I might make a shrewdguess as to how long they stayed up, after my compan-ion and I retired. Let it not be supposed that we retired early. I re-member well the look of the pale blue dawn of

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