Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-19
DANCING MASTER ABROAD.

Prof. Tanning is Received by the Aristoc-
racy of Observation-Disclosures Descrip-
ton of the Sights Seen and Customs He
Proposes to Profit by.
Many readers of the GLOBE will remember
Prof. Tanning, who, several years ago,
taught several dancing classes in this city,
of that time. The professor, it will be re-
membered, was great stickler for 'sstyle''
in those days. but it seems that this country
was not far enough advanced in these mat
ters to suit his ideas. He has therefore gone
TO the fountain head, London, from which
he indites letter to the Detroit Eyenang
Neus, from which we copy. The reader will
reconcile Tanning. He says:
The first thing do every morning is to get
lost before IL o'clock. No shopkeepers 60 down
town much before 8. But the dancing-oh!
girls of Detroit come hither and let us show
| them something-the teachers of London; %
dances, and will introduce them next winter.
! Now perhaps some one from this country will
write you and say that this is the great country,
but have not seen single thing here that we
| do not discount, aye, double discount. l went
into fire engine house the other day and told
l
ETC.. ETC., and get out of the engine house in
| less than 20 seconds, and explained our tele-
graph system. They are allowed five minutes
to get out of house here, and when a man
sees u fire he runs to the nearest engine house
and gives the alarm. the DID, old way.
| There are over 700 music halls and theaters
in London, They have played the Pink Dom
inoes here 40 times.
Everything here is just about twice as dear
as in Detroit, except clothes, and they are most
wonderfully cheap, and they claim are excep-
| tionally well made. The tailors live on air,
guess. There is not park here that comes to
Central park by 100 per cent, and in perhaps
one or two of them you can get water-watel
| founts are scarce After looking at the old
| places on their exterior, and thinking how old
| they are, and then go inside and see modern
| Improvements, it rather taks one abach. Now
in restaurant if you call for bread you get it,
but butter is extra, and every article you eat
| has it's price, for examples Coffee, three half
| pennies per cup; eggs, one penny each; bread, 9
penny: butter, a penny; meat, shilling q
steak. But they don't know what a porter
house steak is. Ale is from penny pint te
eight pence quart. Irish whisky (pure) fou1
cents glass.
AS for the soldiery I haven't seen any diff
ference between them and our own privates
except the Life Guards. When you drive il
| England you always turn to the left; we go tt
heright. And in the dancing everything is
i
gentleman and one lady dance till done, ant
then another, etc. Wait till l get back to De
troit; 1 will astonish the natives. All of tn,
monuments are Gagged in at the top to keel
people from committing suicide, but the PEG
pie of the middle class and the upper class ar
exceedingly courteous 1t astonishes me at tn
way | was treated, in high quarter
especially. Many laughed at me, no doubt
in Detroit when they heard [ was going to En-
gland to learn court reception, but roya
princess is the wife of the new governor gen
eral of Canada. and consequently court recep
ton comes in Just right, and will make mic
little amount out of my trip-see? If he
royal highness, the Princess Louise, MAJ
chioness of Lorne, ever goes to Detroit the citi
zens had better telegraph for me and I'll SHOW
them how to approach so august parsonage
don't mean this as a joke but business, a
| will charge $3.50 and expenses to go. See
Now laugh!
Presentation to her majesty is certainly
grand affair. The first presentation is an i'm
portant epoch in the lives of the young aris
tocracy, as every one on that occasion appear
in his best. The coachmen are dressed entirel
new. The horses have new harnesses, and i
fact not single garment that has ever bee
!, worn before ever enters the receiving room.
: court train is aseparate affair from the ordinar
: dress, and is twelve feet six inches long an
most deliberately trimmed. The young peop
prepare for it by taking course of lessons
Sometimes LULU are presented. The Quee
stands about twelve feet from the door in
room about the size of St. Andrew
, hall in Detroit; next to her is the Princes
, of Wales, then Princess Louise, then Pril
5 cess Beatrice, and has His Royal the Primo
5 of Wales. The court bow is to represent {
great respect, (2) humility, (3) dignity. Fac
e one seems to seek to distinguish herself t
soar above the crowd, rendering herself CO..
spicuous alike for beauty and grace. I'll
debutante enters with slow step, goes befo
the queen and kneels seemingly; the quee
reaches out her hand and the debataote, wit
the back of her hand to the palm of ii
, queens, kisses it and rises slowly. IN. B.-Lor
: nosed girls have to turn sideways to preve
touching the hand with the nose). She pass
to the princess and bows and to the next al
y bows and to His Royal also; she then reach
i, out her left arm, and the train is then plac.
$ over it, and she goes backward 16 feet-time,
m. and so sec.