The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
THE MAN FROM PULASKI

A practical humorist from Pulaski
has been doing Long Branch. He gets
off good burlesque, but the fashion
able todies don't seem to know it,
They think he is q greeney. Who is
he? We clip from Olive L0gan's Long
Branch letter to the Chicago Times,
written July 28:
Moltenhauer was slashing away al
Girofe Girofa quadrilles, and six peo-
pie had struggled upon the vast floor
and were looking disconsola!ely around
for another couple to complete the
set. They were about to give it up in
despair and return to their seats when
middle aged man who had arrived
that day, and who somebody said cam }
from Pulaski, Tenn, stalked into the
parlor with an elderly woman a hold of
his arm. He made bee-line for the
fourth place in the quadrille, the six
people looked more satisfied and held
their ground, and the music grew
triumphantly louder.
THE MAN FROM PULASKI.
he was m1ddIe-aged man, this man
from Pulaski, and tall, and slim, and
long-legged, and if there was living
personifcation of the pictorial news
paper idea of Brother Jonathan, it was
he. His trowsers were full short,
and pair of trowser-straps were plainly
discernable on either side of his boots; a
long-tailed coat and very high stand
ing collar, figured satin vest and an
undue preponderance of plaid silk in
hinge necktie, were the other most
striking articles of his attire.
Nc one knew where his companion
came from. It was enough, perhaps
more than enough, that she was there.
She wore rusty alapaca gown without
particle of trimming, and q WI ite
handkerchief laid around her throat and
fastened with a Lair pin. When [ say
hair pin mean not pin for the hair,
but one of those touching and very ugly
memento-mori brooches, made Of the
locks of the dear departed.
The minute the man from Pulaski
reached his place in the quadrille, he
clapped his hands violently together
and the lady gave little cough. They
were a side couple; and after perform
ing very low oteisances TO right and
left of them, they waited patiently till
the others went through the opening
PAGES.
Then they began. The man from
Pulaski grasped his partners hand, and
with a step like cradle under full rock
he waltzed himself over to the other
side; landed there, he faced the old |
girl, and, the music favoring the move
ment, he executed the heel-and- toe step |
which the nigger minstrels use for the |
polka. This served him nicely tC place |
again-and then ho got ready for the
next movement.
"Ladies chain !" he cried ont, all in
a teeter, and seizing the extended hand
Q; his vis-a-vis he gave the astonished
young lady "a well known BELLE such a
whirl that her very boot-tops were dis
closed, all tied back as she was. To
finish the figure there yet remained the
fFset TO partners" and " hat he himself
called out ''dosey doe" His set to
partners was very vigorous break
iown and in the srdor of the dosey doe
le came into collision with the back of
he woman in alapaca with such an
bump that she calculated
My"
The music now ceased for minute
md the man from Pulaski reposed. |
Little groups had gathered around the
windows to look at him, for the word
lad gone from mouth to mouth that
here was man IL the perlor who was ,
loing
SOME TALL DANCING.
Then the music was resumed, and
four" and ''hands over the !
ady p was followed by gentlemen {
orward?" :
This, of course, you know, is nothing :
nore nor less than tie cavalier seal of :
he French quadrille, and On it the :
'arisan can-canist lavishes his ex :
remest execution; and for it, too, the ;
nan from Pulaski had seemingly been :
all his energies. Gathering I
is coat-tails under his arms he started .
onward with hop, skip and jump, and 6
aving arrived in front of the three who 9
TODD opposite, he began, so to speak, 7
D dance them down. He swung on one :
og then on the other; skipped back +
'ard and cut the pigeon-wing three u
ines, he lifted his right leg and hoped n
n his left; finally he whirled around ! q
III everybody but himself was dizzy, !
nj then seizing his partner by both i
ands he annihilated space with her o
p and down the whole length of the .
DOR. He was off now for good. The .
lusic waxed fast and furious and the I;
ian from Pulaski was aroused. Sweat 6
CURED down his forehead, and his y
osom heaved no matter, this was his +
lOmenG anu ne improved IL. T
One by one the other quadrilIists a
ropped away with awe depicted on =
leir countenances, they stood and /
,oked at the man from Pulaski. The =
who could hardly draw their ;,
ows, or toot their horns for laughter, :
ntered into the spirit of the thing, and, :,
Though the quadrille was finished. n
to play for the advantage of 7
le lone dancer from Tennessee. One u
Imiliar melody after another foated on j
le evening air the favorite morceaux I
the "Grand Duchess" ''La Peri N
hole" and ''Barbe Bleue," the "Mon-
lie Musk" and "No One to Loves"
Way Down upon the Swanee River"
nd Champagne Charley" and finally
lie band struck up Dixie. This seemed p
attract the Pulaskian's attention. He t,
eased dancing looked about him as if n
surprised to find the dance 81
as over so soon and strolled out on G
le piazza quietly humming to him Il
If,
Oh, / wish was in Dixie,
Away, away, a
Tn, niyIa'a land TU 70 Ea INV aFoD1 =,