The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-11
ELI PERKINS,, NOTES.
DANCING.

If you see two hundred pound man
and woman perspiring around with their
pompous bodies tossed lightly and
springily in the air, and making grand
/ Persian salaams for a bow In theLancers,
you can set them down as belonging to
! theold Tweed-Fisk-Lel and-Americus
| Club school
| If you see two heated young people
! tripping fast ahead of the music, taking
| short steps, and jerking through a
SCARE dance as if the house was on fire
and the set must be completed before
any could take to the fire escapes, you
can set them down a., from the planta-
ton districts of Pennsylvania and the
West. 1t Is the steamboat quickstep.
If you see a black-eyed youth with
long hair and a young lady with liquid
black eyes, and she has her two hands
on the young mans shoulder at full
length, and stands directly in front of
him, and they both go hopping around
like Siamese twins with wire springs
uoder them, you can wager they are
from Louisville, Memphis or Little
Rock. They have the square hold
wrestling step.
IF you see a young fellow grasp s
young lady firmly around the waist,
seize her wrists, stick her hand out ike
the bowsprit OF sound yacht, and
both hump up their backs like pair of
mad cats on q door-yard fence, and then
go sliding slam bang against people,
over people, through people, up and
down the room, sideways, backwards,
and up and down like a sawmillgate,
yo u can be sure they have learned their
dancing from the Morristown, River
dale and Yonkers sociables. 1t is the
Suburban New York saw-mill ;;um.1- Ito.
IF you see couple gliding gently,
slowly and lazily through the 'Lancers''
just half as fast as the time, but keep
ing step with the music-quietly saunt-
ering through the % Grand CHAIN" too
Ianguid to whirl partners, talking sweet
ly all the time, as if they were strolling
in graveyard, and you can rest assured
that they are from New York, and from
the most fashionable section between
Madison Square and the Park. This is |
the graveyard saunter step.
If you see fellow clasp a girl melt |
ingly in his arms, squeeze her hand |
warmly, hold her swelling breast to his, |
and they both go floating down the |
room locked in each others embrace, /
looking like one person, his feet only |
now and then protruding from a profu-
sion of Illusion and lace and so on, rely |
upon it, you can set the two down as
belonging'to the intense Boston school. |
1t is the melting Harvard College en-
brace.
Massachusetts, take your hat
The other night. says 'tEh," [ met |
one of those Columbia College law stu
dents at a party and asked him if he
could give me half of round dance
with Miss Johnson.
why yes Mr.. Perkins," he said, !
take her - but recollecting his law
hHO"ieuSS, he Caught nOlu OF my coal
sleeve and made this casual remark:
81 give and bequeath to you, Mr.. Eli
Perkins, to have and hold in trust one /
half OF my right, title and claim, and
my advantage, in dance known as the |
Railroad Galop' with Amelia johnson, |
with all her hair, paniers, grasshopper
bend, rings, fans, belt, hairpins, smell
ing bottle, with all the right and vantage |
therein; with full power to have hold, |
encirele, whirl, toss, wiggle push, jam,
squeeze or otherwise use-except to |
smash, break, or otherwise damage |
and with right to temporarily convey |
the said Amelia johnson, her hair,
rings, paniers, and other objects hereto
fore or hereinafter mentioned, after such |
whirl, squeeze, wiggle, jam, &C., to her
natural parents, now living, and with |
out regard to any deeds or instruments, |
of what ever kind or nature soever. to |
the contrary in any wise notwithstand- |
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