Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-28
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tffE BAD soy.
Peek's Sun.
wei, suppose you took in the military
pan 81 the exposition building last night
ssio toe grcceryman to the bad boy as he
came In yswning, with wilted button.hole
bouquet IN his lapel, and some insect DOW
der on the collar OF his coat.
1eS said the boy, as he got on the
counter and curled up beside the cheese
box with his head on pile of wrapping
paper, to 60 to sleep. Eve take in ali the
olg society affairs, my girl and do. tell
you that ball was the biggest thing ever held
IN this country. Five thousand people
dancing at once. Think ofthat, old man.
! am proud to have come out in society I'M
der such favorable auspices" and the boy
looked like veteran in everything except
U, give rs q rest about auspices, you
young dude. 1t would have been more to
your credit to have kept an eye on your
iather, and not let bin make a spectacle of
himself, as | understand he did. Why
didn't you stay by him and steer him
threughT And the groceryman pulled the
wrapping paper from out under the boy 8
head, and let his head strike the counter
with dull thud.
20, Pc makes me tired" said the boy, as
he rubbed his head. you see, pa is one
OF them oldtime dancers, a 'hopper.up.
de used to go to dances and dance every
set, and jump up and down till his head
struck the chandeliers, and be would grab
his partner and swing her till her heels
would crack together, and he would hop
and skip, and jump up and twist his legs
around each other, and perspire and mop
his fort head with q handkerchief and
when he would alamsud left he would
jerk girls arm out of joint, and when he
would sashay be would be liable to break
ribs, step on dresses, throw his partner down
and walk over her. That used to be the
style when pa was young, bat it is different
now. People dance easier, and don't plank
their boots down on the floor like q pile
driver, and dance break downs. 1t used to
be the style for man to engage partners
for every dance early in the evening. That
might work well in q small hall where you
can see sll the ladies at glance, but in a
building that covers q whole block, with so
many people, and so many places to get
lost, it can't be done. But pa got his pro-
grsmme full at the first inning, and after he
danced with ma the FIRST time he began to
hump himself to find his second partner.
You'd died to see pa gsllopiug up and
down stairs looking for his partner. He
get wild because he was afraid he could not
ind her before the music struck up. He
looked at his programme and asked me if
had seen q woman with sort of brindle
dress on, cut low in the instep in front, aud
| told him l saw such lady 60 up in the
gallery toward the big organ, and pa run
over q couple of soldiers with girls, and
after running about block he found the
brindle dress, but it was cut high in the
neck and wasn't the one he had engaged,
and when he came back the dance was go
ing on and he was left. He saw lady in
one of the sets with brindle dress on and
he got near her and looked offended; anu
he glsred at her until one of the guards or
dered him to get out of the way. By the
time the dance was over he began to think
of Hunting his partner for the next, and as
be started out looking for the white dress he
remembered she wore, be ran against the
brindle dress lady, and she was angry be-
cause he had engaged her and then LETT her
sitting alone during the dance. Pa tried to
explain that he walked more than mile to
find her, and they compromised BY agreeing
TO dance the next time. That left out the
lady in white that he was engaged to, and
thought l would make it pleasant for pa
so told him the husband of the lady in
white, who was soldier, was looking for
him, for insulting his wife, by engaging her
tn dance and then going back on her, and
that he wanted gore. Pa was scared,
and he went away off 10 the opposite corner
Of the exhibition building to form on for the
dance, away from the sanguinary soldier,
when, lust as the music was about to start
ND, q soldier came and claimed the
lady in the brindle dress, and took
her away from pa. Then 1t
was too late to 20 and find the lady IN
white, and pa got ratified. He didn't dare
show up and face any of those he had gone
back on, so he scratched out the first three
on the programme and concluded to com
mence on the fourth, and he got q fireman
and a policeman to help him find her. They
found that she had gone to supper, and pa
could not get in, so he waited by the door till
she came out and BY that time the dance
was over, and be went looking for number
five. and after finding the man who danced
with her last, he learned that she had gone
home. Well, pa was hot. He came to
me and wanted to dance with my girl a
few times, but told him she was suffering
from spring.halt, and he went of to the
smoking room, where / found him about 2
q. m, behind screen telling some of the
fellows what q nice time he had. o, |
guess pa enjoyed himself, though he didn't
have chance to squeeze any6odys hands
tillthe bones of the fingers would crack, as
he used to do. He said he walked about
eighteen miles hunting for partners, and he
never enjoyed himself go well before, but
he looks scared when he meets any gentle
man friend of the dozen ladies he had on
his programme, whom he couldn't find with
out q detective otherwise pa Is well,
thanks and the boy went out yswning.
'I have been AFFLICTED with an Affection Of
the Throat from childhood, caused by dIphtharia,
and have used various remedies, but have never