Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-26

same foul atmosphere, fearful aggregate
Of bared square inches flied with damp
and gaping pores whose province Is al
ternate absorption and exhalation. The
lungs ache in their unyielding sheath, but
everybody pants after dancing, and
twenty sets do not involve as much
physical exeriion as 3 brisk "constitu-
tIonsl" of three miles, or horseback
EXCURSION of ten.
The fair revelIer could walk dozen
miles in the open air, and ride all day on
country roads without the waste Of vital
forces which she leaves behind her-and
nobody else fads-in the ballroom.
Ozone feeds lite; nitrogen, effete animal
tissue, flying particles OF dye stufts, silica,
powder, silk, cotton, wool, volatile per-
fumes, the breath OF whitening flowers
all the deleterious substances science
knows, and many Of which even science
dare not dream, sep the springs Of the
most robust constitution. =
These are the risks taken by the healthy
girl who goes, night after night, to hop.
reception, and german; printing herself
for each succeeding drAught upon the
reserves Ct Nature by hours OF unsafis-
factory daylight slumoer and "tonersp of
Liebig and peptonoids. II only sound.
well women lived thus, season by
season, the evil would be SO mon
strous as to call for legislation to sbate
1t. Bat what wCm.n is always SO COM
pleteIy a. her best as to be able to endure
the stress of hours of standing and dane
ing and "cooling off, In the atmosphere
We have denoteo7
"Girls will 60 il they die for I'll" sigh
mothers Snd physicians. We know in
what "torm" they come out in the spring;
how Catholic, e oiscOpslian and PresDy-
terisn agree in h1iliDg the Lenten Season
that brings lull in the breatless race Of
Pleasure.
Up to comparatively recent date q
broad line of Ct mArcatlOn could be laid
between square and round dances.
Now, the girl who does not wal'z, does
not dance. The dizzyIpg whirl has iRsin-
uated itself into every description Of the
amusement, qusdrille, cotllion, and Ian
ciers; fastened like piece Of new cloth
on an old garment-upon the Virginia
reel itself. saw minuet danced the
other night, q careful reproduction OF the
stately movement Of q hundred years
sgoEe, and the Reproduction" wound
up-in double sense-With q tearing
waltz.
The crazs for the may measure
esteemed INDIGENOUS when Byron,a leader
In the school Of lax morality, wrote,
What you've touche :, YOU may take
Pretty Walter, ajleul
is the more remarkable because SO few
people WALTZ ell. For one who spins
and skins like dragon fly, fifty blunder
like blind beetles. Furthermore, there
are men who are not awkward or ignorant
with whom modest girls cannot endure
TO waltz. There is as much difference
between the respectful support OF
the true gentleman, and the clasp OF
him who has delicscy neither In goul nor
body, as between snow and mud. know
the social code Of the ball loom aflrms
that there are clever ard available de-
vices by which partners can be selected
according 20 merit and preference. Girls
will bear me witness how often undesir-
able ones sre forced upon them. We're l,
veteran locker on, to recount few Of
The scenes that prove my position, contre-
temps disgreceiul 10 one sex and annoy
ing TO the other, occurring st watering
places, public balls and private drawing
rooms, should horrify some readers and
make enemies of others.
Pass we then to positive and tenSble
objection to the fashion Of making dane
ing the only amusement in companies Of
young people of both sexes.
Our young men and women are losing
the art of CONVEX sStion. Their concep-
ton Of socisl intercourse is limited to
gatherings where they take the floor
within ten minutes after entering the
parlors, and leave ii at 2 O'Clock a. m
for the dressing TalK, there is,
Ia half minutes allowed by the fig
ures Of the set, but Of the most trivial
sort, and 80 dlsjointed that It Ia worse
than none. There can be no exchange Of
Ideas, and, with seven out of ten who
VIII tell you they are "just devoted to
dancing" there are not enough ideas to
go around where they set In circulation.
Your Thoroughbred "society girl"
mopes II deprived Of her chief resource !;
votes intellectual conversation, "too slow
for anything" and counts time, not like
Festus, "by great thoughts" but by ger
mans.
Mrs. Petroleum, who makes her edu-
Gated daughters desire for ga R:cSmier
salon" for desire to have 3 saloon, and
guesses "Ps has money enough to set up
one Ii they're getting to be the fashion, 4"
is hardy more ignorant of the eleVoting
influence Of association with refined peo-
pie whose mental riches grow with the
expenditure, than are Adolphus and Ade-
Inns, bobbing like painted coIks on the
frothiest of fashionable society, with
Strophisd minds and hating tongues,
ccrSe4eus OF, and caring for no higher
life. 81 MARION HARLAND.