The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-11-04

the tops ana the darkest demurest ewes and the
niest brown complexion ever painted BY the sunshine
and the breezes and the ocean sprayand you have
faint idea Of Disco girl You should
see them tripping about Ia their little
red boots with their little short steps
scarcely seeming touch the ground 50 soft is their
tread or sprnging the rocks like young anteopes
70 know how charming girl may be in brooches
And they have the daintiest little and hands
feet hands that would make tho prettcst New York
girl burst with envy i she them; 50 finely shaped
SO small, 50 delicate and yet 50 strong
BOARD
And they can dance, too like sylphs 1t is tho cus-
tom IN Disco TO give ball 10 every ship that comes
here and the Pandora Of course could not form any
exception TO the rule. II proved to be very great
success
The bah ROOM It Is true, was rather small for forty
or ny people to dance in being only twelve feet by
hfiecn il was also perhaps little dark, beng lighted
by only one small window, and as il was broad daylight
Al ten O'Clock IN the evening" it was not thought WORTH
while 70 bring in candles In fact there was no place 10
put Candles the ceiling was barely SIX feet hgh, 50
that most Of US had to be very careful not to bump
heads, and the jammed full Of people, except
little space in the middle, four ave feet square,
whore the dancing was done 1t was, in fact the car
peners shop which had been cleaned out and trans
formed for the occasion although the following legend
inscribed over the in chalk would seem to indicate
that its natural and normal state was that Of ball
room concert hall
sbfusi chal dor cope nat clock"
An inscription which our learned and eruditc DOCTOR
after much study and great expenditure Of time and
labor al last deciphered to mean ''Music hall door
open at eight Clock which, fact proved to be the
only record Of the Alert aud Discovery found here.
viii not deny that this hall was perhaps'a little
warm and close when twenty Of our blue jackets and
the whole population Of the village had crowded into IT.
and that little more room might have been desirable
But then there petticoats, no crinoline, no
long to be trampled upon-a woman took up no
more room than man, and that made vast deal of
difference You have conception OF the small space
you can dance in when you have petticoats to deal
with.
/ found that three feet square OF room
to waltz in while for a polka was quite lost in
much superauous space. After a while, however, we
found oppressivoly hot that decided to adjourn
to the open air. Ii eleven O'Clock. The sun
had Just set but there pleasant twilight which
would last all night and which was just right for dane
ing The Pandora was lying asleep in the little bay,
looking like mere logship beneath the towering cliffs
that rose above threatening fall and crush her like
an eggsncl beneath their tremendous masses.
enthusiasm, and l am ready to ayouch that never
enjoyed dance more in my life Officers and blue
Jackets we all mixed together equal terms
and went through walzes, polkas and cotil-
lon with vigor and good will only TO be
acquired by forty days at The girls were not ac
uuantcd with all the forms OF cotilon which we, in
the exuberance of our imagination, adopted for the oc
cason, but they were very quick to learn and got
through the most complicated figures very readily My
partner was a demure little beauty with dark, slightly
almond shaped eyes skin brown as the nut-brown
maid herself the eddest rpest lips and the daintiest
little feet that greater pleasure even
than encircing her slender waist or gazing into her
dark eyes floating with her on the rhythmic motion
OF the dance TO watch her little red-booted feet
as they skinned over the ground like the wings
OF sea bird over tho waves-a pleasure
quite lost when you dance with girl who wears petit
coats And then what hand she hadl So small SO
delicate, 50 soft and brown, il dropped in mine as
lightly as the falling OF autumn leaf The motion
dancing had her boots to settle down. leav
ing bit OF the leg exposed between them and the
brooches just above the knee which, contrasting with
the white tarched linen tops Of the boots appeared
brown walnut This exposing Of little Of the leg
above the boot tops is bit OF coquetry with the DISCO
girls by which they probably indemnify themselves for
not wearing low-necked dresses. But girl who
should expose her bust lady does in ball dress
would be booted out OF the village. Her queer
little topknot, planted perpendicuarly on the top Of
her head and tied up with red ribbon just reached
TO my mouth that must have looked, when waltz
ing with her, as though had enormous imperial
with girl suspended to il BY a red ribbon Young
girls by the way tie this topknot up with red ribbon
married women with blue widows with black, while
those who are neither maid, wife widow
stricted to green or 70 a simple handkerchief tied
around the head.
THE QUESTION 'sPoPPED' IN EsourMAUx
could not talk much with her. but had been study
ing Esquimaux with Joe, and could say a good many
things though, is always the case not the things
most wanted say. opened the conversation during
one Of the pauses the dance by uterng the following
easy little word which had learned from Joe for the
occasion "Audlarhatis iumangiya
asked careessy natural voice as | could as
sumo. She looked at me in doubt
"NuIiagnga2 :" | continued gravely. She evil
IDENTIFY regarded it as a somewhat abrupt way or
opening the conversation, but she grasped the
situation instantly and smiled, kissed her hand to
me, and with merry smile replied, "Ukhar-
luguangut Y which would be equivalent in English to
'.You must ass pa, please" But her ''pa" away
fishing distance Of three four days march and
the Pandora steamed Of the little bay hour after
that match was untimely broken or But the greatest
amusement 70 watch ''Tromp." The poet has
sung that Il is the nature OF to drink think Il
is the nature OF a Dutchman to waltz Ho
seemed throw his whole soul into It,
and went flying over the ground with
an evident enjoyment grace, smoothness, wariness
OF motion that did ones soul good to see, and which
only acquired by people Of his nation. He told
aferward never, with the most beautiful and
refined European lady. had he enjoyed a dance SO
much, and that he had that ever ap
preached this Dsko girl a Walter. why she docs
dance so lightly feather" he said you feel as
though she would escape you from your fingers and
y away very quick. II Is like waltzing with butter
n.y."
SIGHT
The truth s that ''Tromp' had fallen desperately in
love with his partner From the moment he discovered
her he refused to dance with any other girl and SO
monopollzed her that nobody else had the ghost or