The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-25

There is a weeping and wailing, if
not gnashing of teeth, in society cir
cles, says Washington correspondent
of the Hartford Times, 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 whirling
about with her in a dance or german.
The german is what caused some of the
change, though other things contributed
to it also. The trouble with the german
was this +: Whatever the leader did, all
those in the dance were required to fol-
low. Thus it mattered not what a nom
sensical thing the leader did, all were
forced to do likewise. Should brain
less man or woman be chosen leader
and the less brains they have the bette...
dancers they are as rule--she suferirz
is intense to some who take part in the
same. 1t is no wonder then there are
less dancing men. There are a good
many left, however, though not enough
TO go around. When many society men
find that the party they are invited to is
to be dancing party, they just politely
decline. Atarecent swell dancing party
it was given last week-there were
eight ladies present to each man. They
gave the men SO much dancing that they
were punished considerably, as they de-
served to be. Since then some of them
have announced that they had enough
of dancing, and wanted to be excused
from any more of it this season. The
dancing men found that in many cases
they were required to dance with lot of
women whose ages had reached that
point where they could be called with o
degree of certainty grandmothers. The
young society lady does not dance as
much as did her predecessors. The col
leges where forty young ladies have
been taught in the last few years have a
way of Installing into their graduates
that dancing after all is not the, or
should not be the, chief ambition of
women: and that o man, it matters not
how good dancer or piano player he is,
if he has no other qualifications, should
be Stunned. This kind of education
has had terrible effect upon dancing
parties The result is that the modern
young lady as well as the modern young
man don't take much dancing in their
amusement. When they want to see
dancing they prefer to have some one
dance for them. as baseball clubs now
hire men to play for them instead of
playing themselves, as they did when the
game was introduced, or go to theater
where professional dancers can be seen.
1t is no wonder then that dancing men
are scarce. It is not the young society
ladies who are crying over the disap-
pearance of the dancing man, but those
who in early life learned nothing except
how to enjoy what is mistakenly called
society pleasures. The society lady of
the past and many still living knowlittle
else than society matters. The modern
society lady can tell the name at least,
if not anything of the contents, and
often she knows it all, of the latest his
torical, scientific or political work which
has been issued. She can talk of what
is going on around her, and has pretty
good idea of public affairs. The decay
ing society woman knows nothing but
society. People who don't know any
thing of the matter will deny this in
toto, but the facts remain as / state
them.