The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-05-08

decent maR iYY1li stay at home with hls
wife eEometinaes--and not be ou4 e-V-e-r-y
nightr H5wl oomes 1t that the CITY
Council didn't meet but t7575cs month
last year Trying to work it out of
dsbSP EEtes. that's pr0bable- e-veryA
laughing and Joking, and smoI1ng and
swapping lies VIII work q debt or
won't ,itQl1E Eow-I-WsnsGto- know
-how-muehTl longer-you- arergO-
ing-tO-}1eep -shis--nieht--b business ?
Yes E'dv.snt 20 know Out e-v-e-r-y
night. CITY Council, Free 9fasons,
shows, hair oil-and it's brush and
brush am brash until you've nearly
wore out the. brush and your head too.
What IS i you say 1T helps your bu-
siness to keep yOur social rela-
tions Z Ah, indeed iYou,ve got frela-
tiOns here at home, sir They need
keeping mp some I think What did
yon say about catching it the other
night ~ r.yvlaist party?9 sFellers. it's II
o'clock hut lets play a while longer
We wont catch it any worse when we
get home q pretty speech for de-
ries, is said to have communicated such
terror to the spectators that the effect
could scarcely have been greater had
the Furies themselves taken possession
Of the stage.
When we learn further than the at
titudes of the public dancers inspired
the greatest Greek sealptoFs, who
studied them for their perfect deiihea-
ton of passion, and when we look at
the works of Phidias, we begin to real
ize the extent OF differences between
those DANCES which the Greeks witness
ed those inelegant capers which we are
accustomed to applaud. a- +.
The Spartans had a law compelling
all parents to exercise their children in
dancing from the age of five. The lit
tie creatures were led by grown men
into the public place, and there trained
for the armed dance. ~ -e-n q -. 80
The Pyrrhic dance, expressive of over
taking and overcoming an enemy, per-
formed by the young men IN four parts,
must have been kind of exciting bal
let or dramatic dance.
Aristotle places dancing and poetry
in the same rank, and says in his Poet
les that there were dancers who, by
rhythm applied to gesture, expressed
manners, passions, and actions. The
Greeks had fine poets, and therefore we
cannot say, 60 So much the worse for
poetryi" but We cannot help seeing
how the art of dancing has fallen, from
its high estate, and become a vulgar and
tasteless exhibition of mere muscular
dexterity, actually lower down IN the
scale of art than even the war-dance Of
the Oiibbeways.
Greek dancing was more than a mere
feat of agility. The fire that commu-
nieated itself to Che spectators came
from those who were themselves touch
ed with enthusiasm, unlike the human
marionette, the ballet-dolls-on-wires of
to-day.
But, for good or for evil, the passion
for the dance can never die it is, a real
instinct, irrepressible. and universal.
We see IN all children, and IN animals
and among the rudest tribes, the Inn
pulse to express various emotions by
rhythmic movement 81 Children often
dance with rage as with delight, 81 - Z
AS we grow older. and the eye be-
comes cultivated and the blood sluggish
we prefer to looking on, to dancing our
selves. And in the moturer periods OF
the world among civilized nations,
dancing as a studied art is chiefly left
to professional and trained dancers.
Yet how often when a rhythmic tune il
played do grown people beat the foot
or nod the head in time with IT, A lit
tle more, and they would gestieulate-r.
a little more, aud they would dance. "a
The singular power which yhythnic
motion has over che human mind, and
its contagious property, may be noticed
in the curious dancing epidemics of the
middle ages (Which seemed to end in n
kind of possession,) and again in Tho
COARSE fitos Of one or two modern, re-
llBADL7 llfcSts's aF-sfsft 7 L#-. t-
- Dancing in the East (as seen in the
Alme Of Egypt and the Nauteh girls Of
India probably gives ms better idea
of what the ancients Practised than any
thing which we have in our cold North
it is chiefly given up to professional
dancers, who arc often highly gifted
and highly educated. But with fua pro
fessional dancing has become insepara-
bly, connected with the opera stage, and
with but one subject, the tender pas
sion, and this in its conception and il
lnstration is so vulgar and 30 vague,
that IL would almost be true TO say thst
ali who do not consider the ballet indie
cent, believe it to be unneaniBe--as. IL
often is.-.St Faltps Magazine.