A FIREFLY COSTUME.
A short time ago a New York lady gave a masquerade ball at her summer house at Newport. The dancing was on the lawn, and the guests were requested to be there half-an-hour before dark. Tho hostess wore tho costume of night, and in tho daylight her black dress, covered with ivy leaves, did not attract special attention, but when she appeared in the gay throng after dark she presented a perfect blaze of light, and was the centre of tho admiring and wondering company. Tremulous waves of reddish yellow flame seemed to move over her entire dress, while a cap on her head gleamed one great fiery star. The cause of this illumination was tho phosphorescent light of more than five thousand fireflies. Bor weeks previous to the ball the designer of the costume had been storing away fireflies, and on the day of the fete they wore rapidly put on the dress. As the light giving spot is on the ventral surface, each one was placed on its back and held down by a Ana silver wire < 80 skilfully caught thatf It could not turn over or escape, and wos not injured. The star was formed of many beetles.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2435, 25 January 1882, Page 4
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204A FIREFLY COSTUME. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2435, 25 January 1882, Page 4
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