Wichita eagle., 1888-12-25
FULL DRESS FIBBERS.
WORDS OF ADVICE TO A YOUNG
MAN ON ENTERING SOCIETY.
Tricks That the Fair Ones Play-The Dance
Programme Deception-Old Stagers Up
to Snuff Themselves, According to One
of Them.

| Soothingly, don't get not, my boy 1 was
| Just the same after my first season. Every
one is. 1t takes several seasons TO knock il
out of man. He must learn the ball room
tricks before he fully realizes how often a
smile or a look that seems TO fatter conceals
a little ball room deceit. Ny boy, if you
knew how often you have been duped"--
"Name time"
''With pleasure 1t won't fatter your
vanity, but it may be of value to you this
winter Do you remember at Mrs Blanks
| ball last winter when Miss Brown told you
she was so sorry that her programme was
full9 You thought she really was sorry"
~ think SO yet"
"Well, she certainly looked it, but she
could have given you any one of five or six
dances"
'Ah, there l have you, Tom; there you
are speaking without authority. I saw her
programme, old man, and it was full-not a
dance left"
And yet, when went to her afterward,
she rubbed off one name and gave me the
dance"
'.Tben some one else was cheated out of a
dancer"
mot at all She rubbed out the initials
y. j."
who did they stand forY'
"Jennie Jones. Ny boy, that programme
was filled UP in the ladies' dressing room 1t
is an old trick and "a good one Watch out
for it this winter, and you won't be so i'm
pressed with a young lady's sorrow and dis
appointment when she asks you why you
didn't come earlier, and tells you that by
your neglect, you have allowed two or three
stupid bores get dances she had much rather
have given to you"
''Tom," after pause, 'sis that straightw
''True as Gospel, Jack. II has been played
on me many a time. Sometimes | have
known it, and sometimes, l suppose, have
not.n
GIVE me another instance, Tom"
well, do you remember the time at the
south side dancing class when you hunted
high and low for Miss de We're, and, after
you had given up the search she appeared on
the floor with George Hopkinsf'
eyes; and she was angry because had
not come to claim her. She made great
fuss about it"
''Of course; told you that if You did not
care enough for her dances to claim them
she would never dance with you again; said
that you left her alone SO long that she was
obliged to dance with that Hopkins, and all
that sort of stuff, didn't she?"
Eyes; something TO that effect"
'And all that time my boy, she was hid
den away talking to Hopkins and fairly
trembling lest you should discover her."
20, that's too much, Tom"
"Her engagement to Hopkins was an
nounced last week."
Te-es"
sa ellg'
Swell, perhaps you're right. 1t isn't fl at
tering to mans vanity, though"
mo, and that's what I mean by losing a
first seasons conceit. But l can give you an
other example You remember the time that
l came to you and told you there had been
an error that had made US both engaged to
Miss Smith for the same dance?'
Yes, and you were mighty mean about it,
too.n
Certainly. We divided the dance. |
took the first half and danced about four
ffths"
That's what you did"
'Part of the programme, Jack 1t was a
mean trick, but it was regular society one.
Let me detail you my conversation with Miss
Smith as near as [ can remember it:
"'May | have dance, Miss Smithg I
asked.
"'Iwish I could give you one,' she replied,
but my programme is full
"Now, that would have satisfied YOU, but
was on good terms with Miss Smith. and
was also up on social tricks So l said:
/" Can't l divide with some onep
"'Well, you might have engaged dance
she said.
" 'Whoser
"She gave me your name and you renem-
Der the fairy tale | told you-engaged it be-
fore she got her programme; forgot to put it
down, ETC., etc."
"You played that on me, Tomgn
20, yes" nonchalantly. you'll be doing
il yourself soon. Can't play it on an old
timer, though, Jack; remember THAR
Then, according to your story, I'm no
one, and you're a favorite"
Not by any means. The only difference
IS that know the tricks and play them when
they come my way and you don't I've had
the same things happen TO me times without
number. But, my boy, when a young lady
lporalds me for not claiming dance that
she took precious good care l should not
claim | don't feel eIated; tell her l am
sorry, and my sorrow is just as genuine as
are her reproaches. We are both telling full
dress fihS. But you, Jack, think you've been
4 villain for not taking her away from that
lorrid Brown. Moreover, Pm frequently
caught on the torn dress or the broken heel
tricks
"What are theyT'
The most common of all. If a young lady
De dancing with some one she does not care
% dance with she suddenly discovers that
piece OF lace or something of that sort is torn.
Then it is:
I'll you please escort me to the dressing
'ooms Some one has torn nv dress.
certainly You will 1t won't take her a
moment, she says, and you wait around until
he last strains of the waltz are dying away.
when size appears. She is SO sorry; the at
enoant was busy, and she couldn't get it
lxed at once. OF course, sometimes the dress
really torn, aud the beauty of the scheme {
s that no man ever lived who could tell
whether Ii was or not"
The broken heelf'
~, that isn't so often practiced, because il
'utS an end to all dancing for that EVENING
'tilI, suppose you have gone 10 claim q
lance at some time and found the Young
auY ensconcsd II a corner Of the conserva-
CRY with some favored adlnirer. She is
always are-but she broke the
eel OF her slipper during the last dance and
'ont De ao1e 70 dance any more that even
az. You think for moment of sitting the
anee out with her, but you remember what
tete-a-tete time she was having with the
ther man when You came up. and YOU decide
OF to suggest it There is a peculiar feature
this; that IN my ten years experience in
0clety l never knew heel 20 bteAroken of I.
ntll The latter part OF the evening, or OF a
ase where she did not SIT out the rest of the
anceS with the man she was with when the
ccsdeat happened In fact, have known
cases where. when q man was pretty sure