The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-10

him and watch the beads of porspiration
| rise on his forehead as the old war horse
warns up. But they would have crowded
about in still denser groups if they could
have seen his boot tips twinkle in the air,
Keeping time with one of the swinging,
swaylng waltzeS Johann Strauss wrote. He
was tightly buttoned up in a frock coat,
and showed great skill in selecting partners.
Al hrst he went in for a Saratoga lancier.
The first couple of figures proved a
| little intricate, and he did not seem TO enjoy
hustling around in the grand right and left
over much. Perhaps it reminded him of
his handShaking tours in the fall in the Dan
vile district too much. At any rate he did
not seem to warm up to his work until he
started in on swaying sinuous waltz. Mr..
Cannon took in the old style, however, of
four straight steps, then slow reverse. His
legs hmbered up quickly, and his eyes
beamed. He plainly felt that he was
making hit, and so he was. When the
evening was over the Republican head of
the Appropriations Committee was con-
graduated on his dancing by pretty girls
and admiring young dudes alike.
But Cannon has rivals ON the waxed
floor. There are couple up at the Hamil-
ton. Capt. Charles A. Boutelle, the Maine
thunderbolt is very light on his heels when
the orchestra plays the waltz from
'Nanon." Capt Boutelles style of waltz
ing differs from Cannon's. The Maine
thunderbolt is grandiose and lofty. While
the Illinois member bends his knees with
tricksy grace, the down easter performs
Roger de Coverly step. He is dancing less
this winter than last, but when he does go
on the floor he is more picturesque. He has
been afflicted with a boil on the neck ever
since he arrived in Washington to attend
the Fiftieth Congress. His doctor has for
hidden him to wear collars, to prevent irri-
tation of the neck. So he has adopted
instead the practice of wearing soft white
silk handkerchiefs about the neck, fastening
them in front with different scarf pins from
day to day, much as if he were rival of
the Bald Eagle, James William Hustled.
Congressman Morrow, of California, like
Capt. Boutelle, has daughter growing up
to the age of budhood, and he, too, has
been allured into waltzing Mr.. Morrow
has handsome head of gray hair and a
gray moustache, and is an excellent per-
former of the schottische. He dances with
true Pacific coast vim and nerve, swinging
out on the floor with the first bar of strain
from Waldteufel, continuing to the very
end, and coming in in perfect wind.
Edward Burnett, of Massachusetts, the
manufacturer of Deerfoot farm sausage, is
however, probably the most active dancing
man in Congress. He is one of the gayest
society men in the city, and Second Comp
troller Sigourney Butler, who claims to rep
resent Boston's jeuneSSe dOree at the capital.
has had hard work to keep abreast of his
companions in popularity. Mr. Burnett
was prominent as one of the most graceful
dancers at the charity ball, the swell society
public show of the winter, while at the
foreign legation affairs and snch entertain
ments as the german Mrs Grant gave for
her daughter Adele, the sOn-in-law of James
Russell Lowell trips as fantastic toe as the
Mr.. Burnetts brown Vandyke beard looks
well over clawhammer coat and ocean of
FURNISHED linen.
Perry Belmont belongs to the Waiting
cOntingent-that is, he can lead a german
cleverly if he should choose, but he has re-
fused to choose SO long that he has become
very, very rusty. Congressman Hopkins,
of Illinois, is a istinguished-looking man in
the ball room, and people who go to the
bachelors germans know how well the De
Kalb county Congressman can keep his end
up in the way of distributing favors. Re-
preventative Glover, of Wisconsin, had to
do some dancing when he was counting Miss
Patten, and In his lively way he managed
to stand well as a waltzer Congressman
Russell, of Massachusetts, hasn't danced
much of late, except when in frolic, and
as boss farmer of the State, head of the
Board of Agriculture, he would lead off a
dance at Plymouth county or Berkshire
county fair with rosy checked lass, thereby
winning lots of friends and possible votes
Ben Shively, of Indiana, the youngest
man in the House, barely turned 80, has a
figure that looks finely in clawhammer
and spinning over the waxed floor. But it
takes spry Bob Vance, the strawberry
blonde from Connecticut, to fly in galop
or polka. The Hon. Mr.. Vance is said to
have broken the record for three successive
circuits of a hall room while dancing the
girl from New London. This. it should be
said, was in his pre-Congressional career.
AS debutante In Washington society he
has naturally felt considerable modesty
during his first winter