Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-02-27
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fIN the AaGn " oA DahCS- rWashiucton Correspondence to the Hartford Times

llues.
 There is a weeping and q wailing, if not Q gnashing of teeth, in society circles over the absence of dancing
 men. The coming man will, as well as many of the present men do, find more pleasure in conversation with an intelligent lady than in vhirling about with her in dance or German. The German Is what caused some of the change, though other things con
 uibuted to it also. The trouble with The German was this: Whatever the leader did, all those in the dance were required to follow. Thus it mattered not what q nOnsensical tLing the lead
 1T did. all were forced to do likewise.
 Should d brainless man or woman be chosen leader-and the less brain they have the better dancers they are, us a rule.-the suffering is intense to some who take part in the same. IL IS no wonder, then, tho re are less dancing men. There are good many left, however, though not enough 70 go around. When many society men find that the party they are invited to Is to be a dancing party, they just po- lifeiy decline. At d recent swell dancing yaIty Qt was given last week. there were eight ladies present 10 each man. They gave the men so much dancing that they were punished con- siGerabiy, as they deserved to be. Since then some of them have an- nounced that they had enough dane ing. and wanted to be excused from of it thls season. The dancing men found that in many cases they were required tu dance with q lot of omen whose ages had reached that poin! where they could be called with de- gree of certainty grandmothers. The young society lad does not dance as much as did her predecessors. The colleges where forty young ladies have been taught in tue las; few years have a way of insulting into their graduates that dancing, after all, Is not or should not be the chief am bi- tion of women; and that man, II matters not how good a dancer or piano player he is, if he has no other orr~'ie ca ions, should be stunned. This kind Of education has g terrible effect upon dancing parties. The re- sult Is that tine modern young lady, as well us tue modern young men, don't take much dancing in their amuse- ments. When they want 10 see d"nc- ing tGey prefer to have some one 10 dance for them, as base bail clubs now hi, nen to play for them instead | of playing themselves, as they did when lhe game was introduced, or go to a btuIre where professional dancers l cun be seen. It Is no wonder then l hat dancing men are scarce. IL Is | not the young sOclety ladies who are 1 CT, ing over ihe disappearance of the ] dancing man, but those who in early | ife learned nothing except how 10 | enjoy what Is mIsiakenly called so- | ciciy pleasures. The society lady of | the past and many still living know .iltlc else than society matters. The | modern society lady can tell the name at least, if not anything of the | contents, and often knows it all, Of | he latest historical, scientific or po- itical work which has been issued. she can talk on what Is going on Touud her. and she has a pretty good dea of public affairs. The decaying .ocicty women knew nothing but so- .iciy. People who don't know any hing of he matter, will deny this in Oto, but the facts remain as l state hem.