Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-30
BALLROOM MANNERS.
How to Become q BeIle-A Conversation
Overheard Between q Debutante and
Her Mentor,
nbinooo TrIbJop


"Yes, Clara"
'I've been thinking about you. You
went mind if I spesk plainly, will you,
my dear? This is your first season, you
know, and it's my third"
sob, dear, what have I been doing
now?"
"Only showing your inexperience, Ma
ME, and I want you to be BELLE"
"And I want to be ooe, of course"
Then yUa must be more careful. l saw
you dance twice with Frank Harrington
LAST night, and you didn't once dance
with Arthur Jones"
''But there's something TO Frank Har-
rington, while Arthur Jones is insipid.
He doesn't know anything but insane So
ciety gossip"
"But he's one of the beaux, Mamie; You
must remember that"
"Why, he's rot entertaining is hep"
"No-o; l can't say that l ever found
him so. But he always dances with the
SWEETEST girls. You never saw him with a
wall-fower, did you?'
! g'NeVer."
"And you've seen Frank Harrington
often?'
Yes
"Wen, would yoQ rather be CHASED
with the bellies or the wall-fowers? Ar
thur Jones and Tom White can make you
one of the bellies of the season if they like
you, and you'll let them. No one will
ever think you're wall flower if you're
with them a good deal"
Because they never dance with wall
flowers ?"
Yes"
"Then, because they are not polite
enough to pay little attention to girl
who lacks it am to reward them by be-
ing particularly gracious"
"Why, Mamie"
"Tkeir selfiehness makes them beaux."
"Mamie Browne, you surprise me!
"The fact that man whose politeness
consists tolelY in looking out for his own
pleasures asks ms to dance should so fatter
me that l must encourage him in being i'm
polite to my less fortunate sister,"
"How can you put such an interpreta'
tion on what said? l mean, don't you
see, that if You dance much with Frank
| Harrington and that class of men people
will think that you stand in mead of atten-
| ton"
That AN wall-howtr?"
Eyes"
"And then in time that will make me
one ?"
Yes
Ger when Arthur Jones and the other
beaux get the idea that am wall.aoWer
they will let me severely alone"
They won't pay much attention to
you."
why"
"My dear, what makes you aualyzs
everything in this way? When l came
out I was satisfied to know that things
were as they are"
But I'm curions to know why they
are So Would 1 be any less entertaining
as a wall-fower than al BELIEF"
"Of course not, Mamie; what foolish
question"
Wouldn't dance Just as well?"
Certainly. But, you see, if they were
dancing with wall flowers all the time they
could hardly be beaux."
"They would descend to the level of
courtesy and Frank Harrington"
"You provoke me, Mamie"
81 don't mean to. only have way 0.
always trying to get a. the reason of things
Bat it seems to ms that am to reward
one man for being selfish and snub an
osher for being courteous.
mo. no, no! never said that. Dance
with Frank Harrington il you want 20. l
never meant that you should ignore him
entirely. But dance with him less and
with Arthur Jones more"
"But like him better"
$50 do l."
"Well, it's all quite odd, and gives me
some new idsss about society. But tell
me, Clara, if dancing almo2t exclusively
with the beaux makes bella what makes
a beau? Is the situation Just reversed"
Yves, guess So"
"Then where does it all begiD?"
"Dear me! You ask such queer ques-
tons. never have thought about it."
Chow did Arthur Jones get to be one Of
the swell fellows, as we call them?'
"I'm sure don't know. The fret se'-
son he somehow got to dancing with the
acknowledged b:lles of the season before
aud then all the other girls were only too
glad to dance with him"
81 think understand it," thoughtfully.
"a man has push. H. insists on dancing
exclusively with the acknowledged bellies
and Ignores the wall-howers. The debu-
tantes are then crazy to dance with him,
and the next SEASON he helps to make the
bslles,n
"You provoke me again. Arthur Jo0es
has perfect ballroom manners"
'Of course; that's requisite. So must
a belle be pretty and bright, But HE man
ners do not necessarily make him beau
nor DOES her beauty make her a belle.
Doesn't it take little grain of se!fishness,
Cars? ?"
"Mamien
"Oh, bag your pardon. I was just
thinking aloud"