midnight
The Progressive Euchre Club arranged with the Vannis for the exclusive use of the floor on Tuesday and Friday nights . At other times any one could dance who paid his money and was orderly ; the railroad men , the Round House mechanics , the delivery boys , the iceman , the farmhands who lived near enough to ride into town after their day 's work was over . I never missed a Saturday night dance . The tent was open until midnight then . The country boys came in from farms eight and ten miles away , and all the country girls were on the floor , -- Ántonia and Lena and Tiny , and the Danish laundry girls and their friends . I was not the only boy who found these dances gayer than the others . The young men who belonged to the Progressive Euchre Club used to drop in late and risk a tiff with their sweethearts and general condemnation for a waltz with `` the hired girls . ''