Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1850-04-25

HE DANCING MAMA" \ New OTk
fashionable Of either sex, between lri,ate
rehearsals and public performances, usually
occupies about seven hours Of the twenty
four for six days out Of seven in the prac-
tce Of The Polka, Redowa, Schu,tsch, and
other dances OF the free and allectlonate
character. In sumner al fashionable
watering place, these seven hours are not
unirequenty extended to ten or eleven
In fact il Is the main business Of their lives;
what was said IN joke of Margaret Fuller,
is true of them in sober earnest ddncing
IS ,chdt they call religion OF course the
immediate and necessary inference is that
a man who does not dance perpetualy has
no business in society Literary World.
What our cotcmporary has said Of So
cicty in New York, may be remarked with
equal truth of society in all the great cities
of the United States. Some months since,
in out article on fashionable parties, We
called attention to this dancing mania, and
then characterized il in language even
more severe than IN Literary World has.
Many people conscientiously object to dan
cling others oppose II as leading to dssi-
patton and rot a teN believe il, when
followed as nadly as il is now, hurliul to
the health and constitution. Half the best
people, in a word, either dlsc0untcnance or
dislike il. lis chef votaIies being brain
less young men and plddy young ladies',
these, owing to lis prevalence, now mon.
opoIze society and the result is that few
Intelligent women, and sill fewer intelh-
gent men appear at public or private par
ties, or. if they do. enjoy themselves there.
The worst of this dancing mania is that
the modes co,Ilion is almost everywhere
banshed, and Implanted, as the Literary
World remarks, ~ the vOuptuous Polka,
Rcluwa, or Schultsch. Now, for ore, We
confess To being old fashioned enough 10
dislike seeing 4 wife or sister whlrng
round room, II III arms OF comparative
stranger, who is proximity puppy at that.
1t is time that the newspapers especially
the fnniH journals, took up this suhj'cl,
aud enIcavorel to write down tie dancing
mania. Give US 4 society where lntel!l-
geuce, and not the Polka, will reign SUI
preme when people will at least be none
the worse for their evening at patty
whcn thu head will triumph over :he heels!
Phil Bulletin.
W. mast heartily f,joice at finding res
peclab'c and influential jour- ais, like the
above possessed Of the moral courage to
come out boldly agains, the beaslIy and in
/ decent amuecmcnis o! the present day, IN
/ the manner which they have above. Last
summer, in lhe midst uf the fashionable
season in lLis pite, We attacked these
/ fashionable amusemens, most scv erely,
| AID we were sustained in our ellurts by
! mos, of the better potion oi the visitors
here. The puppies, fools, 5 obs and silly
young glrs dcnouncel US in no measured
terms, hu, Their invociive was of no ac-
c un., and fell most harmlessy upon us
/ We received the congratulate MS of many
distinguished strangers who were then
here, and with whom We were unacqna'n'-
1 ed at that time and this was very pleas
AMI, although we should not have sN erved
! f ON .nr course had we stood alone, as
/ we acted n the Conscientious discharge OF
l duty. Ard We are free to say that we
shall follow this matter up, with renewed
energy and force, the coming summer, and
the lovers of the Wallz, Polka, Redowa,
!. sSchotlisch, &c, may rest assured that the
indccencies of this species OF Dancing Will
be most fearess'y exposed by us,