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A COCKTAIL PARTY.
A HOME ADVENTURE... By Jane Doe in the Daily Chronicle
tat give you that faundled jook if you stand too near them, lots of pretty ladies, all pale silken of logs and coloured of frocks like flowers that havo long, silver-slip pery stems, and athletic-looking men, the introductions went some thing like this
I expect you go about more than I do, so it was only natural, wasn't
This is Miss Enaj Eod, who it, that I should feel most fright" fully devilish when a man said to writes those ypytfsgh-articles in me, "What are you, doing next Sun- the Xyrtpouyg Zvdgthtyur! Mrs. Qpagt. Misg day, between five and seven? I'm Mypukl, Miss
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"Oh, do come! Mrs. "Dinna is going to be hostess. I've got some of the Inter-Varsity chaps com ing and a few wild Scotsmen down here on business-Rugger busl-corner loaded down with interest- The flot below is vacant, soling bottles, a silver shaker, and a lot of little glasses Alled with we can have a dance."
Now, how would you dress for brassy cooured liquor, cherries,
and olives." an occasion like this?
dashing, of Something very course.
perhaps, glass on Something, with no back to it, no sleeves, and, what there is of it, all spangly. Like the dress adorable Georgia, the dance girl, wears in "The Gold Rush."
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"Oh, a cocktail, of course," I giggled as you would expect from one in a Gigole hat.. "One of those pretty ones with a cherry stuck on: a Japanese toothpick."
I pointed to the table in the
They made room for me and my a black satin chaise- lounge full of ladies and hand- bags and bowls of salted almonds and fried potato petals."
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You will be pleased or disap-begin. 1 am ready. pointed, as the case may be, to But, naturally, the result of that learn that I have no such entranc-disgustingly jumbled and numbl ing garment. But what hurt me ed introduction was that I didn't more was the fact that I could have know one person from t'other, and done, equally well, with her face. I wasted ten minutes talking to a However, by fixing: my fringe into woman sitting on the floor (ita) a little twiddley bit in the middle much more uncomfortable than of my forehead the way this fresh devilish, I assure you) about the sweetie of Charlie does hers, and proper way to keep maids; three putting on.my new Cigolo hat: at minutes with a man in a brown a most dangerous angle, I didn't suit who was under the "impros- feel so dopressed with "myself sion that I understood and loved after all,
the game of soccer, which I don't, There was the sound of reverley and who left me flat-well, practi- from an open window when, withcally, when he found me out; half trembling finger, I pushed the a dance, with a Scotsman who told silver button of this gentleman'e me all about the new trams in Princes-street, Edinburgh, new, Supposing there was 3 raid that is since I was there last; And equally supposing I was haul and another dance, the Valencia, ed off before Sir Chartres Biron with one more Scotsman who talk-i
Piccadilly is popularly re- Wouldn't he read me a horrified led between the upheavals of this lecture on the duty of ladies of very latest form of the poetry of Puted to get its name from the the Press in setting good ex-commotion, of the reason for the ruffs, called to pickadils, worn by Stuart times. These starchodand. amples! And what a beautiful potency of cocktails. It seems it's gentlemen in late Tudor and early article I would be able to make of the gin.. Gin, you know, doesn't pointed ruffs were more or less it all!
have to mature. You can make it uncomfortable to wear, a fact Before I knew what I was doing, one day and sell it the next. which led to the wooden pillories once inside, I was taking off my By that time half the party was in use in those days being nick named "pickadils." Hence some hat.
"I'm so glad you've taken yours Every now and again our host authorities hold that Piccadilly off, too. The host was a bit wor-would come round and lovingly was so called because the pillories, ried, because I didn't keep mine jog the cocktail shaker, and invite or pickedils, were set up here. We would, abouts, where there were open on. He thought the other women us to have another.
say that it would expect it of me." Thus, only someone nearly always asked fields. Others
ita name from the Mrs. Diana, in the room set apart for a dance at the same time, and took
one Higgins, who for us to powder our noses. the consequence was that, when fact that
"Good heavens! How many you got back the little table where first started building opers- tions here, had made the bulk of duchesses are you expecting? you put it was bare. thought it didn't matter at cock-
over.
In a must have had four his fortune by the sale of picos- tail parties what one took off in cherries, but of cocktail, pure and dillas"-spear-shaped turnovers or cakes-at the booths erected the way of
I mean to say, simpla, about two egg-apoonfuls.
I certainly didn't mean to take And after helping the hostess to here on fair days and holidays. mine off, because it will take me wash up the glasses I'm very
a gcod hour to get it on again at fond of her-I hurried away to that danero-at the proper angle. take supper with a bachelor girl It was sheer excitement, darling!" who offered me stuffed chicken roll wonderful room, with and water out of the tap.
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