The evening world., 1888-11-30
FIBS TOLD IN FULL DRESS.
WORDS OF ADVICE 10 A YOUNG MAN JUST
ENTERING SOCIETY.

Removing the Conoeie Of q First sensou--
Some Little Tricks by which Those
Naughty Girls Deceive the FaIlew Youth
Important Parts Played By Broken
Heels and Torn Gowns.
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II was at the club. Tom, an old-timer. was
talking to O youth in this strain
You have the conceit Of q first season.
Now. now" soothingly. don't get hot, my
boy. 1 was just the same after my first sea
son. Every one iG 1t takes several seasons
TO knock IL out of o man. He must learn the
ballroom tricks before he fully realizes how
often a smile or o look that seems to fiatter
conceals o little ballroom deceit. Ny boy,
If you knew how often you have been
duped -
Name O time"
with pleasure. Il won't fatter your
vanity, but 1t may be of value TO you this
Winter. Do you remember at Mrs. Blanks
ball last Winter when Miss Brown told you
the was 30 sorry that her programme was
full2 You thought she really was sorry"
II think 30 yet"
"well. she certainly looked II, but she
could have given you any one of Ave or six
dances"
"Ah. there. I have you. Tom; there you
are speaking without authority. saw her
grogramme, old man, and it was fuil-not a
And yet, when I went to her afterwards,
she ribbed OF one name and gave me the
Then some one else was cheated out of a
dancel"
NO! at all. She rubbed out the initials
!. vUbo ala thav Stand for 2p
Jennie Jones. My boy. that programme
was filed 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
appointment when she asks you why you
come earlier n tells you that, by
your neglect, you have allowed two or three
stupid bores get dances she had much rather
have given to YOU" $500.
Tom" after q pause, =" is that straight ?"
True as Gospel, Jack. It has been played
on me many O time. Sometimes have
known 1t, and sometimes, l suppose, I have
not"
"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 Hopkins ?"
not come to claim her. She made a great
fuss about It."
"Of course; told you that il 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 ?"
Yes; something to that effect"
And all that time, my boy. she was hidden
trembling lest you should discover her."
90, that's too much, Tom"
Her engagement to Hopkins was an.
nounced last week 2"
"Weii?n
well, perhaps you're right. Il isn't
fiattering TO O mans vanity, though" g
mo, and that's what ! mean by losing q
first seasons ~conceit. But I can give you
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
Certainly. We divided the dance. I
took the first half and danced about four
ffths."
"That's what you did,"
Part Of the programme, Jack. It was q
mean trick, but It was a regular society one.
Smith as near as l can remember 1t
May I have o dance, Miss Smith p I
asked.
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Now. that would have satisfied you. but
I was on rood terms with Miss Smith. and
was also up on social tricks. So I said.
80 Can't / divide with som one p
betorsSsnd:ss she said. ''' ''S'S'D D'n''
Whose"
"She gave me your name, and you remem-
Der the fairy. tale I told you-engaged it be-
fore she got her programmed forgot to put it
t'You nlaved that on me. Tom pn
ing 1t yourself soon.. Can't play It on an
old. inner though, Jack; remember that"
one sI ans 1;oa sSs0 3 fnsor sG y0ur story I'm no
Mot BY any means. The only difference
| is, that I 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
upbraids me for not claiming a dance that
she took. precious good. care should not
claim I don't feel elated; I tell hor I am
sorry, and my sorrow Is just as genuine as
are her reproaches. We are both telling full
q villain for not taking her away from that
horrid Brown. Moreover. Pm frequently
caught on the torn dress or the broken heel
What are they P'
The most common Of all. II o young
lady be dancing with some one she does not
care to dance with she suddenly discovers
that a piece of lace or something of that sort
is torn. Then IL is;
- viii you please escort me to the dress
ing room 2 Some one has torn my dress
Certainly you will. II won't take her O
moment, she says, and you wait around
until the last strains of the waltz are dying
away, when she appears. She is 80 sorry ;
the attendant was busy and she couldn't get
i fixed at once. OF course, sometimes the
dress is really torn. and the beauty of the
scheme is that no man ever lived who could
tell whether il was or not"
The broken heel ?"
"Oh, that isn't so often practised, because
itputs an end TO all dancing for that evening.
Still. suppose you have gone 10 claim q
dance at some time n found the young lady
ensconsed in q corner of the conservatory
with some favored admirer. She is sorry,