Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-30
Is WALKING WICKED?
We All Know the Witchery of it, But
How About Its Influences
1t Has Charms for the Many-Is There Any
Harm in Our Girls Fluttering Inside
Of Mans Arm?
New York Herald.

poetry, opens up vast viStas of gorgeou
beauties, crowds her senses with flower
fragrances, and does it all to a delightful
tune.
This is why the girl loves waltzing.
Yes, says the gentleman at thu
other end of the bar as he lifts the cres.
cent of lemon peel out of his cocktail
land that is why love whisky. 1t get.
there. -
There is bound to be cynicism of thi:
sort applied TO the elegant exercise oil
Waiting so long as the girls go round
While they continue to cling with I'M
concealed rapture to the pure, uncrum-
pied breasts of the stalwart partners
some one is going to sit off against the
wall and assert that the whole business
is either nonsensical, undignifed or i'm
moral.
Wen, is it?
You must understand that dancing has
probably been INDUCED in ever since the
world began. Among ancient nations it
formed an essential of religious worship
1t can be made stately, sorrowful, weird
dreamy ,,devilish,
Therefore refrain from setting tae seal
of condemnation upon the far extending
art of dancing.
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THE WALTZ ASALYZED.
| When man and girl stands uD be-
fore eacEother for a waltz the sensations
of each other cannot naturally be fairly
| defined by the calm, critical spectator.
| To fully appreciate the entire anticipa-
tons of the girl, or the complete con-
! lectures of the man, it might be neces-
sary to go back year or so in the lives
of both partners.
Suppose this pretty young woman had
become engaged to the hated rival of
this handsome young man while the
latter was away in Colorado Suppose
the young man knew it to be a case of
parental tyranny and that the girl was
tiuttering like frightened dove at this
| moment.
The waltz!
There is no need of going around the
room with them. You miss them and
you will stake your life they are out in
the conservatory.
Now, you will readily admit, l am
sure, that the waltz eXerts an emotional
and sentimental influence upon its par
elephants. And in an instance such as
the above q good and proper influence
perhaps.
We will imagine, now, two fine and
healthy young people of differing sexes
about to waltz together, immediately
after their first meeting. She is about
nineteen years of age, tall, slender, del
icately carved, tinted with dainty hues
of virginia. purity, golden haired and al
together exquisite to look upon. He is
good formed, strong and clean built
young fellow, with big knowing eyes and
a jolly moustache.
Sbp rises: Mo I,
mother and yields herself up to her
strange but TeassIIring partner. The
young man dexterously wreathes his
right arm around her small, soft waist.
AT this juncture the cynic puts in his
declaration that under the decent rule of
things the young fellow in question
couldn't get his arm about the girl s
waist inside of six months. And he could
only do it then by proving to her that he
had a good mind as well as good arm.
The waltz has purified an insult into g
conventionality
THE wITCHERY OF IT ALL.
But to return to the young couple who
are now floating away over pink clouds
like seraphs. In tine young man 5 left
hand rests the right hand of the girl.
There is really no part of the latter's
satiny softness touched by the fingers of
the man, for at this epoch of social regu-
lations they are both wearing gloves But
there is the little thing, just as flower
petal, and crushed if You like, as easily.
The girl gasps slightly and utters |
faint little cry. Her partner takes |
tighter hold of her hand, laughs with |
her, and the waltz reels on, the firmer |
grasp of hands not being relaxed.
FAh, ha, - growls the cynio. "He |
=, hy,,, I.
than ten weeks if it were not for this vul- |
garizinG waltz
To the maiden in her dance again! Her |
fair, young head reaches up to such a |
point on the young man as to bring the |
last fluffy skeins of her golden hair just |
opposite his lips. There is perfume in
those cleaning coils-not an artificial |
perfume, but the rich, honest fragrance
of cleanness and beauty.
The young man inhales gratefully this
refined odor of hair.
"Why,'' puts in the cynic, s'he
wouldn It get near enough to find that
smell i'll three months if society didn It
give him the privilege to steal it in the
cheap way he is DOING
If you have waltzed you will know.
Let us suppose you are girl; that
your right cheek comes about four
inches from the shirt collar of your
partner. Your neck, all lovely with
luminous sheen like moonlight, is exactly
under his gaze. If you are not as agile
as fawn, our knees are bound to bump
against him at irregular intervals.
Should the room be crowded, as unusually
IS, you and he are constantly coming into
collision with your gracious but passive
dancer. The effect is fiuster-
ing, even il not wholly disastrous.
Let US return to the golden headed ex-
ample we took to commence with. There
she sails like glad, mad, fairy, sup
ported by the willing arms of her silent
partner. 4 sensuous melody signs from
he arbor of ferns and palms, the aiEss
grows heavier with light and fragrance
here is a rushing to rent of happy peo-
Die flying By like revolving rainbows,
he floor neaves like rose strewn ocean
Ind all is glory, melody and joy.
HERE is THE CLIMAX.
Bang! The two excited people we have
been watching have danced into sort of
-ortex of walters. They have suddenly.
,een crushed hard against each other.
The young man IS lips have been driven |
duarely into the girls hair. He has
lutched her madly for support just as
he has clutehed him, and as the crowd
FhIrls away and leaves them standingj
here free from danger, they are dazed !,