Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1910 — Weird Garb Worn by Women At Halloween Party Monday Night. [ARTICLE]

Weird Garb Worn by Women At Halloween Party Monday Night.

To the men: Did you miss your Sunday breeches Monday evening? Maybe your wife wore them; or loaned them. Women are accused of wearing the breeches a good many times in a figurative sense but Monday night they be came literal and really donned the duds that dad looks best in, and concealed their faces behind strange masks and sauntered oft to the western part of Rensselaer and for a few hours held high carnival in response to invitations sent out by Mrs. C. A. Roberts and Mrs. W. H. Beam. Not all the ladies wore their husband’s trousers, that was not possible, and not all the women dressed like men, but there were a good many who wore male attire and frisked about like boys generally do when they don their first pair of long pants. The guests at the Roberts-Beam halloween party were very unconventional in their attire and while some were wearing masculine garb, others were dressed as school girls, clowns, old maids and old women, while various characters were represented and many novel and weird attires were in evidence. The “Gold Dust Twins” were there, the pumpkin sisters, the soldiers, the woodsmen and hunters, Topsy, Brer Johnson, one solitary Jap, two red skins, and others. Mrs. Roberts was dressed in a hobble skirt and Mrs. Beam in a French gown and they were very cordial in the reception of guests. Men mortals were not desired. They were supposed to be at home caring for the kids and nary an invitation is thought to have slipped into masculine hands. “Uncle” Simon Phillips, father Of Mrs. Roberts, however, managed to get home in time to see all the*guests and he was the only man £hat even got a peep in. The Republican reporter failed to receive an invitation and consequently the costume descriptions are about as limited as some of the costumes are reported to have been and if it wasn’t for our determination to cut this report off without further delay we might say something that would put us in so bad that no apologies would square the thing. Hence, with the customary remark that refreshments were served and all had a splendid time, we will ring down the curtain. Not a rip was reported.