The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-05

BYRoS, however, much credit for his indir-
nation, for the roit- took the young women
of Albion out of the arms of Don JuAss, who
were lame in one foot. and put them in those
of Life Guardsmen who were not They were
poor girls much safer in the arms of the lat
ter than in those Of the former, aad their
mannas thought so too.
The waltz is still regarded with horror by
many Old ladies in black, who wear specta-
cles and bombazine dresses. and fan their
RED faces to the color of a blood beet, with
fans made from the tail-feathers of the tur-
Key. but majority of people, even in vir-
glnia, have acquiesced in it. with surly and
dIscontented looks. And whenever our most
blushing and modest girls find a handsome
cousin, removed not beyond one degree fhev
see no lmpropriety in waltzing with him. Nor
do !, God bless their souls, see any impro
priety in. refined Virginia girls doing inst
what their fine instincts OF 'propriety tell
them is right and proper For after being
battered about the world vast deal. = have
arrived at the conclusion that God has plant
ed many of his fairest and purest lilies in the
Old Dominion. But Heaven preserve nv
native State from the Introduction into the
ball rooms of our people of such dances as
were danced last night to the exclusion Of
the quadrllle. | do not know their names,
but the polka was the mildest of the set
They struck me as intended exclusively for
the young men in tight boots, patent leather
pumps, and queeriy cut coats, who people
meet no where but on Broadway and at New.
port and Saratoga. Imagine the middle aged
gentleman, who can go creditabiy through a
quadrille, venturing incautiously into polka.
That dance, and several others very much
like it, have driven fat and middle aged men
from ball rooms. They require the agility of
monkey. How, | ask, would short, stout,
tat mo, not fat-somewhat feshyl man like
myself, get on with a fast young lady, if we
were fairly tangled in the mazes of the ma
zurka or the schottische. 1t would give me
great pleasure to place my arms around the
waist OF pretty young woman-nor should
object to her resting her head confidingly on
my yshoulder-that sort of thing like amazing
ly-but then to whirl her around the room, at
the speed OF top, would not be comforta-
ble..-
do not speak rashly, when say that fat man
aged forty, would regret such an experiment. /
saw one try it last night and do not think that the
unfortunate man has yet cooled down. He was a
small, but fat man, and he selected large mus
cular woman Tor the dance. The music was
something faster than usual and the muscular wo-
man finding that the fat little man did not spin
around rapidly enough, impaired to him her own
velocity. | saw him sometimes whirlng with his
toes Just touching the floor and then he seemed to
be taken OF OF It by the velocity of the motion His
partner held him fast until the close of the perform
ance. and then released him The poor fellow reel
ed off dizzily to chair-gazed wildly around, and
after gradually recovering his senses retreated to
the piazza to get cool | saw him try ice cream
cold water, red bandanna handkerchief, a FAM and
three sherry cobblers but he still looked as if he
would never get lower than fever heat, and this
morning ne might be mistaken for boiled lobster
by his most intimate friends The men that dance at
this place, the Polka, the Mazurka, the Hungarian
pOiOnaJsp isch hp do
else 1t appears TO be their vocation and of course
they are trim, light fellows who are as intimately
connected with their favorite dances, as the dane
ing Dervishes of Cairo, or the dancing women of
Constantinope are with theirs. But as have here
tofore said, an old-sashioned prejudiced bach
elor. and your young readers will no doubt laugh
at my comments upon the successful rivals OF the
good old qaadrilte. Yours, SENEX.