The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1880-07-24

have to be after her all the time. Il
gre'es me to death a great girl almost
fourteen years old''
almost fourteen years old, How yhe
time flies And the operat Are YOU
satishedl'
Satisfied. We'll, there is not much
cause Tor satisfaction. She has been five
years there now"
Five years.''
Yes; she entered the opera when she
was eight and half years of age, and
now she's only got as far as the first
quadrille. She ought 10 have passed CO.
ryphee long ago
well, how is that"
"Oh, because there's such thing as
injustice. 1t IS protection and favor that
does everything, and that's what they
call republic
And here grave voice interyenes:
Madame Chenu''
Madame Caenu turns SHARPLY toward
her husband
"Well, what's the matter: Ism, i, true
what say?"
1t is possible that it may be true,
said NJ. Chenu, with frown, "but you
have no business to interfere with poll
ties
$50 you think it is "a good thing that
your daughter earns only nine hundred
francs instead of twelve hundrcd'"
THAT is not the question:
"Oh, no. You don't trouble your lead
about that. You are not ambitious. l
must render you that much Justice
Then turning to Evaline: And ;ou, wba.
are you waiting tors Go to your lesson at
once
Eyaline stuffed into little retlcule a
pair of stockings, some daneing shoes,
corset, a chemisctte, a comb, a looking
glass, a button-hook, powder-box, q
piece OF bread. tive sa1dines. some apples
and bottle of water colored with VINE.
She took her mantel, her hat and her sun
shade, kissed her father and mother and
started.
But the girl returns almost immediate
ly.
'sAh what has she forgotten now ex-
claimed her mother.
"oh mamma my medals
The girl, out Of breath, rushes into the
lIllIi IdDlIIl aItlE @tIC ltJilpi LIS ICI kOl-
let, and returns with two medals OF saints,
two little crosses and branch Of red cor
al strung on q ribbon, which she passes
round her neck They ere the dancers
fetch.
Eyallne is nov armed from head -
foot. She issue: forth from the paterna
dwelling with her nose III the air, ard
deseends the heights OF Monmartre. goes
down the rue Leple, crosses the exterior
boulevard, and passes along the rue
Pi4allo and the Chaussee d'Antin, and
so arrives At the opera.
It is a quartz, t. .. The little cancer
passed rapidly past the doorkeeper,
| climbs mp five flights OF stairs, and en-
ters the room where her companions Of
the first quadrillc are dressing. IN tive
minutes she had donned her class dress
| low-cut chamissette with short sleeves,
muslin skirt, rose-coiored stockings and
satin slippers much worn; by way q or
nament sae had a ribbon round her neck.
a blue sash, aud hidden in her corset her
medals. her famous medals.
Eyallne mounts two more flights OF
stairs and arrives st the class room "a
large square room under the cupola OF
the opera, with slightly sloping floor.
There is q chair for the professor, !. sec
ond char for violin player: rails run
ming round the wall complete the turnl-
ture OF lhe room.
I'm position, mesdemolselles
At this call OF the Professor the llitle
dancer has gone ard placed helseli at
one Of the rails, and, taking hold OF II
first with the left hand and then with the
ri,ht. she bends herself, stretches and
twists her body in ali manner OF ways,
placin. her leg on the rail as high as her
shoulder, throwing il backward. swing
mo il forward in short, dislocating her.
self for twenty minutes in order te pre-
nare herself for the lesson properly, sc
called. After these exercises, the Protes.
sor summons the pupils to the middle
Of the class room, and then the lesson
begins, and the girls 80 through the var
q IONS steus and movements the develop
ments, the attitudes. the arales4ues, the
relieves. the ports de bras, the tonettea, tt,
balconies, the temps dc culsse, the temps
i ds pirouette, the temps de polnte, tht
changements de pieds, the pas de oour
] rec. the gIissadcs, the assemblies, th'
, ietes, the pirouettcs Tenyersees, the CAP
roles. the entrachats and finally the en-
cha;nements, composed OF all these steps
Thls composes the lesson; but Evaline
,vho wishes to be somebody, does no
content herself with that hard labor, an
{ during the instants Of respite granted 2,
the professor, size passes on to anoshe
series OF d!siocations and pa-lor 1ymnas
tics.
The lesson i finished: il Is alter clever
/ o'clock. Evalinc, painting and breath
less. returns to her dressing room 50 Is 7
chanoe her linen. after which She take