Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1913 — BALL FOR ELDERLY DANCERS [ARTICLE]

BALL FOR ELDERLY DANCERS

Paris Has Institution That Is Said to Havs Led to Many Mar* Hagas.

Paris. —We have all known the “bale blancs” for young lads and lasses, the “bale roses" for young couples, “bale d’apaches,” “bale parfumes,” and all sorts of other freak balls, but the "bal mur” Is a novelty.

This has been invented by a charitable hostess for the great parterre of wallflowers, tor men and women who have long hovered over the “forty” line, ydt still desperately claim its neighborhood, or for those who heroically have said good by to dancing before. The name of "bal mur” is not a very flattering one and probably thia category of choreographic fetes will soon come to be known by the more poetic title oi "bal de 8L Martin." referring to the legendary summer afterglow known as the Ete de St Martin. The first one was a great success, and in the two months following it led to no fewer than thirtyseven marriages. In one of these the bridegroom was seventy-eight and the bride sixty-two.