A COSTLY BALL.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13645, 10 February 1913, Page 3

A COSTLY BALL.

When tlje American millionaires give an .entertainment tho money runs like water. Tims, at Philadelphia,- the Stotesburys, who are members of tho Pierpont Morgan firm, gave a ball which, -r-ost £8,000. The entire premises of tho. new. 'Kitjj-Carlton. Hotel •wero engaged for-tlif' occasion, tho festivities being opened in the.bar room, which had been converted into a reception room most lavishly furnished. Another feature of the ball 'was the: provision of cigarettes to „be smoked by

the women, aM of- whidh bore Mrs B-t<otic«.biuy's monogram.. The darner arrangements, wore conducted on-^tihe new suffragist-.'principle.•'■ All the eligible bachelors were seated alone at a separate table, where they ; could bo examined and ' oninpared by the young

women