Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-02

Shops Excellent for LAsa-Ssss, y-esrisse &c
Above Goods Kel
cold before dancing begins. To cool of
alter each set they promenade in tn
same foul atmosphere, afesrful aggregate
OF barred square inches filed with damp
and gaping pores whose province Is al
ternate absorption and e%xhslation. The
lungs ache in their unyielding sheath, but
everybody pants after dancing, and
twenty sets do not involve as much
physical exertion IS a brisk "corstitu.
tlonsl" Of three miles, or 9 horseback
excursion of ten.
The fair reveller could walk s dozen
miles in tie open air, and ride all Gay on
country roads without the waste Of vital
forces which she leaves behind her-sud
nobody else fiads-in the ballroom,
Ozone feeds life; nitrogen, efete animal
tissue, flying particles OF dye. stufs, siIics,
powder, slls, cotton, wool, volstile per-
fumes, the breath Of whitening flowers
all the deleterious substances science
knows, and many Of which aver science
dare not dresm, sap the springs of the
most robust constitution.
These are the risks taken BY the heaIthy
girl who'goes, night after night, TO hop.
reception, and german; priming herself
for each succeeding drsught upon the
reserves Of Nature by hours of unsstis-
factory daylight slumber and "toners" of
Liebig and %peptonoids. II only sound.
well women lived thus, season bV
season, the evil would be SO mon
strous as to call for legislation to sb.te
1t. But what wCm1n is always SO com.
pletely st her best as to be able to epdure
the stress Of hours Of standing aud dane
ing and ~"cooling of" In the atmosphere
we have denoted2
"Girls will go il they die for IT." sigh
mothers and physicians. We know in
what "form" they come out in the sprIug;
how Catholic, piscopSliSn and Presby.
terrain agree in hailing the Lenten season
that brings a lull in the breatless race OF
Pleasure.
Up to q comparatively recent date a
broad line Of demsrcation could be laid
between square and round dances,
Now, the girl who does o waltz, does
not dance. The dizzylng Whirl has insin-
uated itself into every description of the
amusement, quadrille, cotilion, and Lsn-
ciers; fastened like q piece of new cloth
IN an old gsrment-upon the Virginia
reel itself. Isaw q minuet danced the
other night, a careful reproduction of the
stately movement of a hundred wears
agone, and the Reproduction" wound
up-in q double sense-With a tearing
waltz.
The craze for the may measure
esteemed INDIGENOUS when Byron,a leader
in the school Of lax morality, wrote,
What yen'ye touche :, ,you may AXE
PFnttV WaltFaY aiipn
is the more remarkable because 80 few
people waltz ell. For one who spins
and skins like 6 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
who has delicacy neither in soul MOI
body, as between now and mud. l know
the social code Of the ball room aft ms
hat there are clever and available de-
vices by which partners can be selected
according to merit snd preference. Girls
will bear me witness how often undesir-
able ones are forced upon them. Were I,
8 veteran locker on, to recount q few Of
the scenes that prove my pOsitio ,contre-
temps ~disgraceful to one sex and annoy
ing to the other, occurring at watering
places, public balls and private drawing
rooms, l should horrify some readers and
make enemies of others.
Pass we then to s positive aud teDsble
objection to the fashion Of making dane
ing bhe only amusement il companies Of
young people of both sexes.
Our young men and women are losing
the art Of Conversation. Their concep-
ton Of social intercourse is limited to
gatherings where they take the floor
within ten minutes after entering The
parlors, and leave 1t at 2 O'Clock a. N.
for the dresslng-room. Talk, there is,
in half minutes allowed by the fs-
ures Of the set, but of the most trivial
sort, and so dlsjOinted that it is wors-
none. There a be no exchange of
and, with seven out OF ten who
will tell you they are ''just devoted to
dancing" there are not enough i'd as to
20 around where they set In circulation.
Your thoroughbred ''society girl"
mCpes IL deprived of her chief resource;
votes intellectual conversation, "too slow
snythiDg," and counts time, not like
'by great thoughts" but by ger
msns.
Mrs. Petroleum. who makes her edu-
Gated daughters desire for SO csmier
salon" for q desire to have 8 saloon, and
guesses spa has money enough to set no
one II they're getting to be the fashion,"
Is hard y more ignorant of the eleveting
Influence Of association with refined peo-
pie whose mental riches grow with the
Expenditure, than are Ado plus and AIDE
Inns, bobbipg like painted cofks on the
of fashionable society, with
Atrophied minds and hating tongues,
conscious Of, and caring for no higher
life. MARION HARLAND.