Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-12-18
For The Pheniir Gazette.

ioyment of social life, and which mark the dill
ference between the civilized man and the saw
age, there is none perhaps which merits our at
tention more than that of Dancing 1t conlri-
butes, at the same time, 10 the health and vigor
Of the body, and spreads feeling of cheerful
vvacity over the mind: 1t affords an agreeable
relaxation after the tolls or the monotony OF
the day, and even dispels the vacant gloom which
broods over the spirits of the hypocondriac or
ennuye: The student leaves his studies to &C
knowledge its pleasing influence, and the love-
ier sex may be found enjoying this innocen!
amusement, their native charms deriving addi-
,ional lustre from the animation which it gives
to their spirits, and the rosy tints which IL gives
TO their countenances.
Dancing also derives additional claims TO our
attention from its great antiquity. In the old
est history extant, the daughter OF Saul is de-
scrioed as dancing before David; and there are
many passages in the Bible which prove il 10
have been a common amusement with the Jew
ish damsels IT was also favorite recreation
with the maidens Of ancient Greece; and Of
those arts which were particularly attended to
by the Greeks, and deihed in the persons Of
their respective muses., dancing did not hold the
least conspicuous station, and the votaries Of
Terpsicbore were perhaps more numerous than
those who followed in the train Of any Of Der
sister muses..
With the moderns also, dancing has been du-
" honorsd; and Pope, whose name alone is au-
,hority, has declared in imperishable verse, that
"those move easiest, who have learned TO dance"
Now il is a Iamentable fact, and one which can
no, be disguised from any who walks our
streets, or enters our bathrooms, that The art
of moving with ease is not sufficiently attended
10 in this place; and those who feel their deh-
cheney in this respect, and are DESTROYS OF i'm,
provement are informed that an opportunity
will present itself on Wednesday next, when
Mr. CARUsI will reopen his dancing school in
Alexandria On MIR Carusi's abilities as a
teacher, itwould be useless to descant-he hav-
ing taught here last winter with universal APP
probation, and his amiable and unpresuming
manners being we'll known to many of our citi-
zens; but there subject on which Justice re-
qures me to say few words, and shall dis
charge the duty in brief and impartial man
ner l am informed that there are some per-
sons in Alexandria, who, although DESTROYS Of
learning to dance, yet refrain from attending
Mr. Carusi's school from self-imposed obi
cation of waiting till Mr.. Generes shall think fit
to revisit US. / would ask them, is such a
course proper, and is spirit of this kind cal
culated TO benefit the town. Mr.. Generes is a
man, no doubt, highly respectable and well &C.
accomplished in his profession, yet he no Ion
ger makes this place his residence, and but for
Mr.. Carusi, we should be left entirely without
a teacher in that season Of the year when dan
cling is most agreeable. Mr.. Generes now vi
sits US in the midst Of summer, when the OPP
pressve heat renders dancing toll rather thar
a pleasure. while MIR. Carusi attends US in the
winter, time peculiarly propitious TO active
amusements, and when the long winter nights
require something of the kind TO relieve that te
diousness which would otherwise be attendant
on them. feel pleasure also in knowing that
MIR. Generes will not be injured by Mr.. Caru-
sis success, his scholars in Baltimore having
become very numerous by the departure of Mr..
emoluments there being amply sufficient, with
that all who consider the subject impartially,
will lay aside their preudices, and act with that
spirit of lberallty which has always distinguish
ed the citizens Of Alexandria. In conclusion
to those who having received ten or twelve les
sons from dancing master think themselves
adopts in the art, would parody line of Pope's
and say, ga little dancing is a dangerous thing"
Could they but see themselves during the per-
Torrance of their uncouth antics, they would
be constrained to think with Hamlet that one
ofnature's journeymen had been making a man
and not made him well, they initiate humanity
so abomnably"
FRIEND TO INNOCENT AMUSEMENT.
From the National GaeeHe
An able pamphlet has appeared in Ionic
("by authority, we presume,' says the Morning
Chronicle) on the disputes between the United
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