The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-03-21
Fashions In Dancing.

"There has been o great improvement
in the style of dancing in England dur
ing the last three or four years." says
the London Graphic. "The fashion Of
mad gallops and waltzing which resem-
bles the charges of football players, he's
temporarily gone out, and the valse a
trois temps has come back into favor.
Shall we ever see q resurrection OF the
old minuet. which SO perfectly conveyed
the poetry Of motion? 1t is arather GER
monious dance for these times, but q
little cultivation of that courtliness of
demeanor which first gave rise to the
term "ball room manners" would per-
haps do some of our English youth no
harm. Beau Nash would have been
scandalized ct the style in which many
of our young gentlemen bobtheir heads
instead of bowling, and we doubt wheth-
er the curtesys of our best-Srained
young ladies would muster before his
critical eye. There is a cubbishness In
some youngsters which makes
them ashamed to be graceful in deport-
ment before ladies. They are graceful
enough in their athletic sports, their
riding, rowing and cricket, for in these
pursuits grace is called "form;" but n
forn has yet been set up as a standard
to be attained in ball rooms. So we
see young fellows who are very Apollos
with their zephyrs, on shrink up into
slouching figures when they put on
their dress-coats and shambie forward.
with awkward gaits to ask q girl TO
dance just as if they were afraid of be-
ing laughed at. Yet we have never
heard of o really w~ellmannered and
graceful dancer being laughed at ever
by the most gawkish contamner of So
ciety pastimes. Perhaps if the fashion
of slow dancing is kept up for a few
years longer it will lead naturally to-
revival of the grace which comes from
carefully executed movements, and the
result will be seen in q greater polish of
manners outside the bathrooms as we'll
as in them"
Mccullough aud His Man Cob"
"That is Bob ?richard, better known
as 'McCullough's Bob lie is the gov
ernors' dresser and has been with
him forthirteen years. Bob has a weak
ness for the ardent, and, sometimes gets
o little too much on board, when the
governor will discharge him. But he is
always taken back, for he knows Mr..
McCullough's ways so we'll, is so
thoroughly familiar with his wardrobe,
and is really such a valuable dresser
that his occasional shortcomings are for
given. An instance of his value was
shown las. year,
tSNn1 rar,n,,1,nr. NJ, M,E,0In,zI.
played Ingomar' at the Boston theater to
Mary Anderson's 'Parthenia.' Well, the
morning of the day Oh which the gov
was to leave New York for the
Hub. Bob turned up rather the worse
for wear; and the governor summarily
dismissed him; told him to go off and
never show his face again. Bob went
away and Immediately sought Billy
Conner, to whom he related his misfor-
tune. I'm fred for good now said he
with tears i'll his eyes. The governors
awful mad Bonner knew better, and
SO he told Bob to go home and sleep
until afternoon and then come back and
see him.
I'm the meantime the governor had
started for Boston, without taking n bit
of wardrobe, aud was in q horrible stew
to know whathe should do. Miss An
derson, who was on the train, suggested
that the next day they could get I'D
early and go to some costumer's in Bos-
ton, and get something that would do.
This didn't please Mac much, for he is
not an easy man to fit, you know, but
he thought that was the best thing that
could be done. He reached Boston in
an unenviable frame of mind. and
put up at the Trenton House."
Where was Bob all this time?"
Hold on and I'll tell YOU. Bob went
home and slept, and went to SEQ Conner
in the afternoon all right. Conner told
him to get together everything the gov
ernor' would want in 'Ingomar,' and to
go to Boston on the night train, and 60
to the governor at his hotel in the
morning as though nothing had hap
pened. Bob did 50, and when the gov
ernor' cam down early the next morn
ing there was Bob sitting ut the foot of
the stars. Hello, Bob,' said MIR. Nc
Cuilongh. have you got everything all
right for ''Ingomar?"'
Yes, SIR replied he, Just as you
told me, sir.
You ought to hear the governor
tell the story. When Isaw Bob sitting
there that morning. says he, Il felt that
l could have put my arms around him
:'nd hugged the Scotch cuss.' "-Nation,