Gay Nineties Relived By Dance at Junior League

The beaux and belles o£ the faststepping nineties came to life again last Wednesday when the Architectural Society of Rice Institute staged a Gay Nineties Ball at the Junior League Building. Ray Watkin, daughter of the head of the department ot architecture at the Rice Institute, reigned supreme at the social, function as Queen of the Arch Arts. Girls robed in long, flowing gowns curtsied to the sweeping bows of gallants in "high-water" Breeches and swallow-tailed coats, as the strains of modern jazi music tried valiantly to blend itself in with the surroundings of nineteent hcentury grandeur. The architectural students had done an exceptional piece of work in creating artistic wall coverings for the interior of the hall. On the walls were huge representations of beautiful ladies in the costumes of the bygone age and