The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-01-22
. PRIVATE LESSON WALTZ.
HOW A CLUMSY MAN rs TAUGHT TO
SHINE WITH HIS FEET.

SHINE WITH HIS FEET.
Tho Nimbis Capers or . Professors Patent
Lcathcrs and a Reporters Gum sheesA
The Steps shown by Disarsns-Lsdy
Assistnnts and Their w erk-No Fiirtins
The waltz quickly taught " and Private
lessons any hour" have become as familiar
lines in tho dancing masters department OF
the papers ss "A hot stew in five minutes
and Meals at all hours /" on the walls OF cheap
restaurants, A SUN reporter set out the other
day to find q quick waltz and a private lesson
and serve them up for the public. He began
the search DIT Carriers Academy on Fifth ave.
nue., where both articles were duly presented
for his inspection and experience by Prof
Cartier himself, who has been privately and
publicly teaching folks quickly to waltz for
more years. probably. than he would care to be
reminded Of, q
The Professor took his new student right up
stairs to the large hall. which CHANGED to DO
unoccupied, and began upon him at once. II
the pupil had been a bashful young man, or q
middle-aged or old one who did not care to
have people know that he was Just picking up
youthful follies. the Professor would have taken
him to q small private room somewhere In the
building. or would have made a private room
by partitioning of q part Of the hall with cur
tains. He might also have stuck a lump OF
putty over the keyhole and called his pupil BY
an assumed name. had the pupil been as
shamefaced as many who come to him. just
why any one should be ashamed to have II
known that he is learning to dance Is not an.
parent, but the fact Is q fact, nevertheless, that
once a man gets beyond tho age Of youth he
had rather he caught In a neighbours hen roost
than in the hands Of q dancing master.
In the big hall up stairs tho Professor looked
sharply at the reporter a moment. and then said:
Have you ever been In tho military"
The reporter had never danced to the music
OF bullets.
Know anything ofany military movements9'
The reporter had once shouldered q torch in
q campaign club.
The Professor absentmindedly took the
Students left hand In his wi right and began
to walk up the hall. the student by his side.
The Professor was not in step. and the student
gave q little skip to catch IL. A moment later
tho Professor was out OF step again. and the
student had to give another skip. This hap
pened twice more in the length Of the hall, and
when the turn was made the Professor started
Off again with tho wrong foot. It was remarka-
able how the Professor insisted in stepping out
with his dapper patent leather right just when
the reporter put forward the ample gum shoe
on his left lit was o rainy day when the lesson
was takenl, and how as fast as the reporter
skipped his right gum into place the Pro-
fessor was just starting of with his left patent
leather. After a couple Of turns across the
hall in this fashion. the Professor stopped sud-
denly. and said with . charming smile that
rather increased than Modified the students
vexation at the dancing masters inability to
keep step: H.
why. you seem to have It pretty well"
Have what ?"
why, tho step"
This was more than tho reporter could say
for the Professor. but he forbore sarcasm and
asked. What stepT
why. the waltz STEP"
THAT isn't ~waltzing."
mo. but that skipping to catch the stop with
me is the waltz step."
is that all there is to waltZinRP" q
No, but that's all there Ia to the waltz step.
When you get 80 that you can do that to the time
of music and not know you're doing it, lust as
can waltz all right by just taking hold OF your
partner apd spinning around q bit as you walk"
That doesn't sound hard"
1T i~sn't-when you know how to do It"
In the same a~bsentminded manner with
which he had begun tho promenade. the Pro.
fessor. facing the pupil. nestled his two hands
into the pupils and began: ~
"Mo W., back c6. with n. youT ,, left foot, back With
%neously the Professor put his right loot for.
ward. and made the other steps just the oppo-
site OF those no directed in the pupil.
Now; forward the right; forward the left;
q little one with tho right" and again the Pro.