MANGIPIKO CONCERT AND BALL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2111, 19 January 1886, Page 2

MANGIPIKO CONCERT AND BALL.

O.v Thursday evening last a very success* fill entertainment, in aid of the library fund was given in the Mangipiko Schoolhouse. It counted of a c>uceit and hall. The really pleasant affair may be classified : — The concert, under the aole in magcment of Mr Y. Giierson, was oncorc-iii^ly appreciated. The ladies, Misses Finch, Lewis and Hodson, and the gentlemen, Ctiptain Capel, Me-rs (irt\v and Johnson, warbled or played so delightfully and •»ang so humourously, as to irritate skin by the very act of prolonged clapping of hands. The l'efreshment •* marquee," superintended by Moidatnes Alexander, Carley. Davidson, Nablx, and others, whose names I wot not of, was repeatedly visited, and much satisfaction expressed at the tasteful army of flowers and greenery with which it w.»s decorated, as well as at the exceedingly bounteous display of "creature comforts," there exposed to redden countenances with the pleasant glow of gratified lepletion, and tempt appetite*, even the most lackadaisically fabtidou*. The ball was certainly a pretty affair. The schoolroom was rather too email for the proper accommodation of the numerous dancers who gently caressed the wa\encd or watered floor— it does'nt matter much which, with that light fantistic touch bMictioned by the " muse " of the "merry twinkling feet.'* Some persons rudely said tho room was not big enough for the simple athletic purpose of " awing, ing a cat in,"' but I feel confident in stating a practical illustration of that theory would prove its erroneousness. Taking an arm, cat, and tail of average length, and describing a circle from the centre of tho room, one would find the "tabby" sweepingly swing and ckw at nothing but atmosphere. The inubic was rendered by membara of the Te Awamutu Ca\alry Band, under tho leadership of Mr H. T. Sibley. Ladies nicely dressed, and gentlemen in their Sunday clothes, whirling round, gracefully and rythmicnlly, made the ball-room a scene of jealous splendour — jealous, because outsiders bashfully inclined had no " show ' in it. The belle ?— Ah ! there comes the rub. After much harrassing thought, ami not being armour proof against the killing glances of enraged beauty— for each " beauty " not accounted " the belle" is sure to become enraged— l protect myself from all future danger by just parsing on the responsibility of proclaiming the belle to others. So many " bolles" were present there I could not name the fairest ; Let those who wish to make a '"queen," Crown her— to him tho dearest. BiLLr.