Daily Republican., 1889-03-02
BALL ROOM MANNERS.

"Mamie, I've been thinking about you.
You won't mind II speak plainly, will
you, my deaii This is your first season
you know, and it's my third"
"Oh, dear, what have 1 been doing
now?b
"only showing your inexperience,
Mamie. and want you to be belle"
"And want TO be one, OF course"
Then you must be more careful.
saw you dance twice with Frank Harring-
ton last night, and you didn't once dance
with Arthur Jones'"
"But there's something TO Frank, while
Arthur Jones is insIpid. He doesn't
know anything but in sane society gossip. "
"But he is one OF the beaux, Mamie;
you must remember that"
why, he's not entertaining, is he %
moo; | can't say that ever found
him SO. But he always dances with the
swellest girls. You never saw him with
a wall-nower, did youp
"Never."
"And you've seen Frank Harrington
often ?"
eyes"
"Well, would you rather be classed
with the bellies or the wall-nowers ?
Arthur Jones and Tom White can make
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they like you, and you Will let them. Nc
one will ever think you're a Whatsoever
II you're with them good deal"
because they never dance with wall
flowers, Clara"
ayes"
"Ihen, because they are not polite
enough TO pay little attention to a girl
who lacks II l am to reward them by be-
ing particularly gracious"
"Why, Mamie"
"Their seliishness makes them beaux. "
Mamie Brown, you surprise mel"
"The fact that man whose politeues IS
consists solely Of looking out for his own
pleasures asks me TO dance should so
tiatter nc that j must encourage him in
being impoliie to my less fortunate sis
tiers, eh, Clarap
"How can you put such an iuterpre-
tation on what said' mean, don't you
see, that II you dance much with Frank
Harrington and that class Of men people
will think that you stand IN need OF at
teption.
That / am Whatsoever
ayes"
sand then in time that will make me
onel"
"Yes."
Fl Ut Wien Arthur JUlth anu tItP OI1cf
beaux get the idea that am wall flower
they will let me severely alone"
They won't pay much attention to
you.p
"Why"
any dear, what makes you anslyze
everything In this way? When came
out was satisfied to know that things
were 90 they are. /"
"But am curious TO know why they
are so. Would be any less entertaining
as a wall-hower than "a belief"
'0f course not, Mamie; what foolish
question"
''Wouldn't dance just as well?"
"Certainly. But, II they were dancing
with wall-fowers 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 a way
of always trying to get at the reason of
things. But it seems to me that ] am to
reward one man for being selfish and
snub another for being courteous
"No, no, mol never said that. Dance
with Frank If you want to; / never
meant that you should ignore him en-
tirely, but dance with him less and with
Arthur more"
"But like him better"
$50 do I"
"Well, It's all quite odd, and gives me
some new ideas about society. But tell
me, Clara, If dancing almost exclusively
with the bsAux makes q belle, what
makes beAui Is the situation, then,
Just reversed"
''Y-e-s, guess So"
"Then where docs 1t all begin?"
"DeAr me, you ask such queer ques-
tlonsi have never thought about 1t
"How did Arthur Jones get to be one
OF the swell fellows, as we call themV
"I'm sure don't know. The first sea-
son he somehow got to dancing with the
acknowledged bellies Of the season before,
and then all the other girls were only too
glad to dance with him."
81 think understand it," thoughtful
ly. "a man has push He insists on
dancing exclusively with the acknowl'
edged bslles and ignores the wall-flowers.
The debutantes are then crazy to dance
with him, and the next season he helps to
make the bellies"
"You provoke me again. Arthur Jones
has perfect ballroom manners"
"Of course, that's a requisite. 80 must
= belle be pretty and bright. But his
manners do not, necessarily, make him
beau, nor does her beauty make her a
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