The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-07-22
have no business to interfere with poll

have no business to interfere with poll
tics.''
$50 you think it is q good thing that
your daughter earns only nine hundred
francs instead of twelve hundreds''
ssThat is not the question
ooh, no. You don't trouble your head
about that. You are not ambitious. I
must render you that much JUSTICE
Then turning to Evaline: ssAnd you, what
are you waiting fors Go to your lesson at
once.n
Evaline stuffed into little retlcule a
pair of stockings, some dancing shoes, a
corset, a chemisette, a comb, looking
glass, button-hook, powder-box, a
piece of bread. tive sardines, some apples
and bottle of water colored with WINE.
She took her mantel, her hat and her sun
shade, kissed her father and mother and
started. an
But the girl returns almost immediate
"Ah!what has she forgotten now?' ex-
claimed her mother.
ooh! mamma! my medalsr' e
The girl, out of breath, PUSHES into the
little cabinet where she performs her tot
let, and returns with two medals of saints,
two little crosses and a branch of red cor
al strung on ribbon, which she passes
round her neck. They are the dancers
fetch.
Evaline is now armed from head to
foot. She issues forth from the paternal
dwelling with her nose IN the air, aud
descends the heights of Monmartre, goes
down the rue Leplc, crosses the exterior
boulevard, and passes along the rue
Pigallo and the Chaussee d'Antin, and
so arrives at the opera. "
It is a quarter to 9. The little dancer
passed rapidly past the doorkeeper,
climbs up five flights of stairs, and en-
tiers the room where her companions of
the first quadrille are dressing. In five
minutes she had donned her class dress
low-cut chemissette with short sleeves,
muslin skirt, rose-colored stockings and
satin slippers much worn; by way OF Or
nament she had ribbon round her neck,
blue sash, and hidden in her corset her
medals, her famous medals! .. .
Evaline mounts two more flights Of
large; square room under the cupola of
the opera, with slightly sloping floor.
There is chair for the professor, Sec
ond chair for violin player: rails run
ming round the wall complete the f0rni-
ture OF The room.
"1n position, mesdemoiselles y
At this call of the Professor the little
dancer has gone and placed herself at
one of the rails, and, taking hold of it
first with the left hand and then with the
right, she bends herself, stretches and
twists her body in all manner Of ways,
placing her leg on the rail as high as her
shoulder, throwing it backward, swing
ing it forward-in short, dislooating her
self for twenty minutes in order to pre-
pare herself for the lesson properly, so
called. After these exercises, the Profess
sor summons the pupils to the middle
of the classroom, and then the lesson
begins, and the girls 60 through the var
ious steps and movements-the develop
ments, the attitudes, the arabesques, the
relieves, the ports de bras, the fouettes, the
balconies, the temps de cuisse, the temps
de pirouette, the temps de pointc, the
arrangements de pieds, the pas de bour-
! rec, the glissades, the assemblies, the
jetes, the pirouettes renversees, the cab
roles, the entrachats and finally the en-
chainements, composed of all these steps.
This composes the lesson but Evaline,
who wishes to be somebody, does not
content herself with that hard labor, and
during the instants Of respite granted by
the professor, she passes on to another
series OF dislocations and parlor cymnas-
tics. .,-
| The lesson is finished; it is after eleven
o'clock. Evaline, painting and breath.
less, returns to her dressing room so as tt
change her linen, after which she takes
from her reticule the provisions that she
has brought with her and lays them or
the table, where sic proceeds to break
fast with her comrades. All the little
dancers have brought their breakfast
with them, and the chattering and excla
nations begin.
''Oh, some ham!': No, it is not ham
it is preserved beef" 'Give me some.
"Whose got some salts'' "Agathe, give
me back my bread" ''Shut the win
ldow!' who'll buy my radlshes?'
"Ah, ma chere Fanny has some chick
ens?' Then they exchanged treasures
Evaline exchanges her sardines for som
| fried potatoes and goes shares with Ma
re Bourgard to buy Pauline Arden;n'
radishes.
The rehearsal bell is ringing; the
} must 60 down and finish their breakfas
on the stage, while the stage-master call
| over the list and the ballet-master chat
with the composer. "
"Now, mesdemoiselles, are ell OF 20
readys''
; The girlsformed into groups. .......
"Who is waiting there9'' t..-
ut Is Bertrand, senior
always Bertrand, senior Where !
. Chenu2'' ~..,.-,..-
Here, monsieur ... EeG.
Take your place. .:.
Then addressing himself to anothe,
. the stage manager said: t.... ~. 1..:
"What, are you eating stilla''
I'm not eating, monsieur, it is onl
coffee berries
The stage manager shrugs his should
ers, and at this moment the ballet mas
| ter knocks on the STAGE with his sfaf