A Gilded Age Ball of Unalloyed Pleasure

While etiquette will be rigidly enforced it will not confine itself to evening suits and gloves…

THE first ball of the season will be given by the Young Men's Institute, No. 87, of Merced, October 10th, at the spacious dining roam of the Tuolumne Hotel, which will be tastefully decorated for the occasion. The orchestra, composing four pieces, will be of especial excellence, while the floor managers promise to unite for the nonce in one common party. Their names indicate strength and dignity, combined with elegance and grace. While etiquette will be rigidly enforced it will not confine itself to evening suits and gloves, but to the general idea of honest, pure, unalloyed pleasure. Such is one of the objects of the Y. M. I., No. 87, of Merced. – Merced Sun-Star, 1888

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