The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-17

truth about Texas is not fully known and
properly understood ten miles beyond its
boundary lines, to say nothing of the coun-
tries far beyond the ocean.
now AN ASTOR WAS DEFEATED.
Never was American politics more deeply
sounded than by an Astor, who was q
candidate for congress during the late cam
paign in New York city. One of those spot
reporters who "keep up with the process
sion," was there, and so graphically tells
the story, we give it in his language, thus:
civilian Waldorf Astor, the present
pride and chief heir-prospective of all the
Astors, the grandson of the original John
Jacob, was at the ball of the Dave Nc
Mahon association. He came little after
midnight--a communicating and rather
ungainly young man, considerably over six
feet in height, with light hair and NOUS
tache, and a thin face. He entered Monte
froe hall, wearing a brown overcoat over his
black evening dress, carrying crush opera
hat. Frank Raymond a member, who had
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hall, introduced him to the crowd.
Astor threw "a $50 gold piece on the bar.
Treat all present. he said to the bar
tender.
"There was commotion at the counter
and hasty emptying of glasses at the
tables. Astor took seat with Raymond
and two other men at q small table and
drank little champagne with them. Half
dozen bottles in all were opened, but most
of the company stuck to beer.
will you! dance if get you partner
Raymond asked.
Il don't mind if do Astor replied
HE took off his overcoat, left it with his
hat in a chair, and was led by Raymond
across the room to girl who was putting
some champagne down into the beer which
she had previously drank.
Miss Lynch said Raymond, allow me
to introduce Nr4, Astor. He'd like a
dance"
Certainly the girl g-aciously replied,
setting down her glass and rising"
The reporter then photographs" Miss
Lizzie as "a hand" IN q cigar factory, with
face and hands outside the civilization of
soap and water
She was a good-looking Irish girl, in a
plain worsted dress, and her black hair was
banged straight across her forehead just
above her eyebrows, while on each side OF
her face long lock was combed down in
front of her ears. She was, in short, fair
type of the East Side working girl-jaunty
in her cheap and questionable clothes,
saucy in her manner of speech, and entirely
selfpossessed. That her partner was an
Astor did not in the least abash her, nor
would it if it had been an emperor or any
body less than st. Patrick or the pope"
1t was a waltz in which the pride of all
the Astors and the Belle of Harlem Flats
engaged. Continues ''the historian" of this
truly historic occasion: 1.-THE dance in
which the pride of the Astors and the Belle
of Harlem Flats engaged was waltz. Now,
the style of Waiting in vogue on Murray
Hill is not practiced in the coterie in which
Lizzie Lynch moves. She took her first
lessons on the sidewalk to the music of
hand-organs, and finished her dancing edu-
cation at Jones Wood picnics. The waltz
in which she excels is slow, stiff, stepping
around, so steadily and unbendingly that
chip wouldn't be dislodged from her
shoulder. On the contrary, the waltz of the
Astors is the helter-skelter, leg-lifting,
body-swaying kind, which, in several modi-
fications. has for several seasons been fash
ionable in high society. cannot tell why
the waltzing of the east side of the city
is so wholly different from that of
the middle, but so it is. There
fore, when William Waldorf Astor put
his right arm firmly around Lizzie
Lynch, clasped her hand with his
left and struck out with the first six-foot
prance of the society guide while she
made the opening shuttle of the Sidewalk
glide" there was violent failure. The
girl may not have been Disconnected before,
but she was now, not to say disconnected
and dislocated. She didn't know what to
make of such conduct on the part Of her
partner. As for him, he probably thought
She had failed to start at all; so he waited
for the next bar of m usic, drew her closer
and ierked her off her feet in a second at
tempt. The entire company had come into
the big hall TO see the Astor dance, and sew
eral couples were circling slowly and sol
EMMY around in the east side style Of
Waiting. Astor was enabled by these ex-
amples TO comprehend the difficulty. He
tanned his steps as much as he could, while
the girl put little spirit into hers, aud
thew made several circuits Of the hall, very
laboriously, but without further disaster"
When the election came off he was defeated
by stunning majority. No one will re-
oret his defeat. Had he entered congress
he would doubtless have been "A notch on
a STICK Money is not 80 powerful after all.
II requires some sense to back il, and more
pride thar could waltz with Lizzie Lynch
in a low dance house. When the rich de-
seend TO such levels they even excite the
d;soust Of their fellow jewellers. OF course
Aster viii not keep up the acquaintance
formed that night with his partner and the
ciovus xho drank beer at his expense
doui,tless voted solidly against him.
WHO SHOULD own THE TELBGRAPHf
What l. the limit Of state duty, is a
question that Of ali political ones j. the
r,o.t dfffculi Of solution. How lar state
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