midnight
The best proof of this is that the first chance any of them birds gets -- _ that 's just what they do _ ! Y' know , you 've seen in the papers lots of times where Archibald Van Hesterfeld has been among the starters in the bazaar for the relief of the heat prostration victims in Iceland , or words to that effect . Or , if it was n't Archibald it might have been General Galumpus or Commodore Fedink -- or all of them . Away down at the bottom of the page , if it 's a copy of the Succotash Crossing _ Bugle _ , or right up in the headlines , if it 's a big town sheet , after readin ' what dignity and so forth the `` distinguished guests lent to the affair , '' you 'll see that at midnight they was large doin 's on the dance floor . It is even bein ' whispered around that the general , commodore or governor fox-trotted with the girls from the Follies and one-stepped with such of the fair sex as cared practically nothin ' for the neighbors . Along about the time the milkman was sayin ' , `` Well , here 's another day ! '' , the well known distinguished guests was actin ' like a guy who knows a Harvard man does , after they have beat Yale or vice versa .