Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1875 — Disaster to a Debutante. [ARTICLE]

Disaster to a Debutante.

The Washington correspondent of the Rochester Express gives the following tidbit to the world: “ A most laughabletjncident occurred at an amateur musical entertainment the other evening. Mdlle. Blank was to make her debut as a caniatriee. It had been the theme of Mrs. Grundy’s conversation for weeks. Expectation was at a fever heat. Finally the night came, and with it a high-toned audience of several hundred. The first part of the programme passed off satisfactorily, and now comes our fair debutante to the foot-lights with the grace of a queen and the ease of a professional. She warbled the first stanza like a Nilsson. The accompanist struck up the interlude, and of-course this was the time when the fair singer should raise her ‘ lace-kerchief ’to her face. With a regal curve of her left arm she did so, her eyes fixed on the admiring audience, when, horribile dicta! a most delicately constructed silk stocking displayed itself in

wavy folds. It seems that her maid in her excitement had placed a stocking in the place where the other article ought to be, and hence her ludicrous mistake. She stood transfixed, resembling an auctioneer of hosiery at a bankrupt sale. The audience roared. The buttons flew and stalwart men grasped their sides in fearful agony. Fashionable ladies forgot their propriety and just screeched. Of course the best thing under the circumstances for Mdlle. Blank to do was to faint. She did it as well as Clara Morris could. Up rushed Senator ; he seizfed a pitcher of water and soused the tprostrate form of the unfortunate singer. This had the desired effect, and so it would on any female when her SSOO dress was ruined. With a whizzing sound she left the platform; the entertainment was ended and the streets were lined with laughing hyenas. To witness such a scehe again I will go the same price of admission and raise it two better. I regret to say that the fair debutante is not" dead, but has removed to the solitudes of Alexandria.”