The card of admission is absolutely personal, to be taken by the
committee before the opening of the ball.

[Illustration: (admission card)]

The committee will be masked, and comrades without their personal
card will be refused at the door. The cards must carry the name and
quality of the artist, and bear the stamp of his atelier.

Costumes are absolutely necessary. The soldier--the dress suit,
black or in color--the monk--the blouse--the domino--kitchen
boy--loafer--bicyclist, and other nauseous types, are absolutely
prohibited.

Should the weather be bad, comrades are asked to wait in their
carriages, as the committee in control cannot, under any pretext,
neglect guarding the artistic effect of the ball during any
confusion that might ensue.

A great "feed" will take place in the grand hall; the buffet will
serve as usual individual suppers and baskets for two persons.

The committee wish especially to bring the attention of their
comrades to the question of women, whose cards of admission
must be delivered as soon as possible, so as to enlarge their
attendance--always insufficient.

Prizes (champagne) will be distributed to the ateliers who may
distinguish themselves by the artistic merit and beauty of their
female display.

[Illustration: (photograph of woman)]

All the women who compete for these prizes will be assembled on
the grand staircase before the orchestra. The nude, as always, is
PROHIBITED!?!

The question of music at the head of the procession is of the
greatest importance, and those comrades who are musical will please
give their names to the delegates of the ateliers. Your good-will
in this line is asked for--any great worthless capacity in this
line will do, as they always play the same tune, "Les Pompiers!"

THE COMMITTEE--1899.

For days before the "Quat'z' Arts" ball, all is excitement among the
students, who do as little work as possible and rest themselves for the
great event. The favorite wit of the different ateliers is given the
task of painting the banner of the atelier, which is carried at the head
of the several corteges. One of these, in Bouguereau's atelier, depicted
their master caricatured as a cupid.

The boys once constructed an elephant with oriental trappings--an