The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-03-28

is the dancing-schooll What can it accom-
plish? Usually more or less agility in the use
of the feet. Occasionally sensitive, fexi-
BILE body catches and follows the movement
of the feet, giving an additional grace to the
exercise, but rarely does it express any mean
ing beyond the assumption of a fashionable
gymnastic.
This in the light of its greatest possibilities,
while the graceless monuments of its falling
short of this are neither infrequent nor un-
known. Thus the advantage of the dancing
school as means of body culture sheds but
a sickly gleam upon the vast necessity. In
despair at the monotony of ineficiency, we
fly to the specialties, singing, painting,
elocution. Occasionally, after a long study.
pupil gains superior knowledge and pro-
ficiency in one of these directions, but the
great majority work little and weary of it,
then bury this with other possibilities be-
meath an uninteresting seeming. And society
is surfeited with those who paint little, sing
little, dance little who, when they are
not so engaged, are simply i'll at ease and at a
loss for entertainment, and their companions
equally at loss for helpful, enjoyable in
terest, for few and far between are they who
have learned to think broadly, appreciate
readily, talk and move well, even a little
and why? Because we have no culture in that
art-most useful, most readily accessible, and
most necessary to social grace, the art of con-
versation
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