Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-31

In motion--of grace inimitabie, of lightness
uncomfortable. She was tho greatest, if not
the very last of the old school of dancers;
purely artistic in style, poetic in sentiment
and modest in dress and dsineanor. Since her
time ballet dancing hns become more auto
Nnatit and acrobatic, moro difficult, perhaps,
in its tense, :nterninable poses, its prpdigious
muscular endurance and marvellous fcats of
agility; but its old poetic enchantment has
' changed into a ~voluptuoHs bacchnnal intoxica-
f, ton, making it less a fine art, than a "black
art" Since her time the dancers smile which
used to come and 20 easily and naturally,
with charming effect, has heightened and
frightened into n grin, and her floating, airy
diapcry has shortened and stiifened into u
ruiz, very much misplaced. On that long ago
summer morning | also SAW Taglioni, as she
was standing on her balcony looking smil-
insly out on the lake-a light, graceful little
figure, robed in white, and all a-tiutter with
gay ribbons. More than a quarter of
a century later 1 again saw her,
at n large and merry garden party
in London-then a little thin, beat,
sad-eyed old lady, all in black, sitting
retired from tho crowd with two or three
other elderly ex-artists. Our hostess pointed
her out to me, but not till | saw her rise and
come across the lawn to take cave of that
\ Iieh~iip ioSlto5-HIpSlUp WIFI something OIL Il
dancers elasticity of step and peculiar swing
OF the skirts, as though she were walking up
the stage-not till | marked her matehless
grace of manner and the sweetness Of her
parting smile could I realize that before US
was indeed that dainty and airy creature who
used to float across the scene, brushing over,
but not, they said, bending ferns and flowers
she whose very flesh seemed diaphanous,
like her dtnpery, whose bones seemed filled
with air, like those of birds-she whose chaste,
tender and exquisite acting even Chateau
BRAND raved about--she who WAS LA
Sylplide."
AT Cernobbia, Caroline of Brunswick, un-
crowned Queen OF England, when Princess of
Wales, sought such consolation as nature
could give, for her matrimonial trouble and
s%quahbles, with that first gentleman land
brntci of Europe" George Nv. In sight of
our windows is the Villa d'Este, now the swell
Hotel de la Refine d. Angleterre," a sort of
monument of that unhappy princess, as the
oldest part was once her palace and figures IN
history as the nursery of the shameful scan
dals which finally resulted in the famous
trial of Queen Caroline" Here, with u court,
small, but jolly, she rode, and sailed and
strolled and danced with a reckless, restless
gayety, unconscious that the spies of her
royal enemies were all about her, as alert and
keen-eyed rs the lizards, darting in and out
OF the ~shrubbery and rockwork along her
garden paths. Here she was served by the
handsome italian courier, or valet, known
on the trial US "non-miricordo," he not recol-
iscting anything in tho least eliminating to
himself or his mistress. Queen Caroline was
doubtless a much injured and prosecuted We
shtn but she was not a prude OF a Puritan
and probably was as far from being a Portia
/ q G lln. htlcIp1,l ,srop f.,,,, IntNr -, EN,x,n. E.-l
only by her maternal love saved from
becoming an utterly reckless royal adyen-
turess, sowing Europe with scandals.
Speaking of adventuresses, / am reminded
OF the famous, or Infamous Fannie Lear"
or Mrs. Harriet Ely Blaekford, who lately
died in Paris, expelled for the second time
from that gay capital, as some dozen years
before she had been expelled from st. Peters
burg, where she had melted an infatuated
lover, the Grand Duke Nicholas Constantine
witch, to the theft Of his mothers diamonds:
and as, a few years later, she had been ex-
PEELED from Rome, where 1t was said she had
cajoled another royal or semi-royal lover,
Count Mirafiori, son of the kings morganatic
wife, into raising money by q clever imitation
of the signature OF his revered sire. We
were ut home when the scandal broke out and
the lady was moved on in such a summary
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biug her own mother of all joy and peace in
hfes mid disholaring the name of her dead
1 fatheri
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