Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Maids in Their Nighties. [ARTICLE]

Maids in Their Nighties.

, Anastonishing exhibition of girlish charms at the Opera-House last evening furnished a theme for an immense lot of gossip in this town today, says a Patterson (Pa.) special to the Philadelphia Record. A camp of the P. O. S. of A. gave a benefit entertainment, the chief feature of which, according to the official program, was a "nightgowndrill.” This drill was just what the name implied. The lights in the room were slightly lowered to give the scene a more realistic effect. The audience sat breathless for a minute or two, and then from the wings of the stage emerged a vision of maiden loveliness. A pretty girl of interesting years walked slowly before the footlights. Her only robe, so far as the charmed spectators could see, was a, white flowing gown pf the simplest make. The soft material clung nicely to the piettily rounded shoulders. Those delicate curves of the young woman’s physique seemed all the more entrancing beneath this bewitching garb. Her hair fell loose upon her shoulders. Her snow-white feet and ankles twinkled beneath the filmy lace at the bottom of the gown. Hardly had the audience recovered its breath before another girl, dressed just as the first, appeared. Then another and another, until seventeen bewitching girls, with loose-flung hair and twinkling feet, were upon the stage. Each young lady carried a lighted candle. They marched back and forth across the stage and performed various evolutions. They refused to respond to an encore.