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St. Joseph’s Plans ^ 37th Carnival Ball
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By Joe Pllet The 37th festive celebration of St. Joseph’s Carnival Ball begins promptly at 9:00 p.m. on the evening of February 6 and in St. Joseph Academy’s gymnasium. The Court will be brilliantly attired in dazzling costumes. Talented Mrs. Delores Haas, designer o f decorations and decorations chairman A.C. Jones with true artistry have set the stage with quality workmanship worthy of His Majesty and Her Royal Highness, whose identity will be revealed when the tableaux form.
Music and entertainment extraordinary, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Olive McKenna, will bring meaning to the make-believe world of court life re splendid with the gracious loveliness of beautifully gowned maids and handsome dukes.
General chairman Mr. John Wilkerson and Mrs. Wlikerson promise to make sure each guest has a comfortable seat in which to enjoy the spectacular. All seats will be reserved and no tickets are to be sold at the door. Tickets at $2.00 each are selling well and may be bought In convenient locations such as Bobby Ann Bakery, Lynch’s Waveland Drug Store, and Our Lady of the Gulf School office. When the seats are sold out tickets will no longer be offered for sale. Standees have been ruled out, according to Mrs. Denise MacDowell, who Is publicity chairman for the affair.
Victor Franckiewicz, ad-
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vertising chairman, says money from the Carnival Ball will benefit Our Lady of the Gulf School. Mr. and Mrs. John Rutherford with a flair for fixing delicious dishes are chairmen of the food service.
Promptly on the stroke of mid-night His Majesty the King i will entertain his lovely queen and members of the Court In royal fashion, the last hours	,
of revelry prior to the begin- •; ning of the period of fasting, for the word Carnival is derived frorr the old “carne tale”, FAREWELL TO FLESH. Fashing is an old custom of the Church and during the middle .vj ages it was such a serious mat*? : ter until meat, eggs and milk were forbidden in Lent both by. * •* ecclesiastical and statute laws. V'ij In the time of Charlemagne, death was the penalty for the wanton disregard of fast-ingl In Queen Elizabeth’s time ’i'] butchers were fined twenty s’ pounds for slaughtering animals -d) during the Lental season.	>c
For the forty days prior to ;a> Easter social life and court life was quiet. Families went into semi-seclusion. Carnival, the last of the days of gayf .^ festivity, has become univer-sal in its appeal for having ••'■Vjt* fun is as old as the human race. (Man is said to be the only animal that laughs I
The St. Joseph’s Carnival MU Organization invites you to r come and join the fun. Re- ’ joice before the period of fast- ^ ing! Forget your cares and lose yourself in the pleasure of the -celebration.
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