Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1913 — Shaded Effects. [ARTICLE]

Shaded Effects.

At a college dance recently given in the college theater every one marveled at the pretty girls, the finelooking men and the general air of happiness and enjoyment that prevailed. Other dances given in the same room had been successful, but there had always been a sort of barnlike atmosphere which no amount of gayety could dispel. One of the members of the committee explained the change. The girls on the comittee, six of them, had bought several rolls of deep pink crepe paper, a ball of twine and some pins. On the tops of stepladders and chairs they had made and fastened on ruffled paper shades over every electric bulb In the room. The result, for which the dancers could find no reason, was an air of festivity which every one noted. It was all due to the soft yellow pink light