, 1889-01-03
10 There Really Any Harm in
the Dizzy Waltz.
Charms for the Many, But How
About Its Influences?
The Cynic says There IL Harm--The Girl
says Eo-Let tho Cynic Go Ia, And
All Have n whiri.


She finds strange pleasure in The fair
modern dance. let us presume. 1t fills her
veins with dreamy flowing Of unsung poe
try, opens up vast vistas Of gorgeous beau
ties. crowds her senses with flowery fra
grances, and does it all to delightful
tune.
This Is why the girl loves waltzing.
"Yes," says the gentleman at the other
= end Of the bar as he lifts the crescent OF
3 lemon peel out of his cocktail, "and that
is why love whisky. 1t gets there"
There is bound to be cynicism of this
sort applied to the elegant exercise of
waltzing 30 long as the girls 90 round.
While they continue to cling with upcon-
cealed rapture to the pure, uncrumpled
breasts of their stalwart partners some one
is going to sit of against the wall and as
sert that the whole business is either nom
sensical, undigni6ed or immoral
Well, Ia itY"
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.
IL can he made stately, sorrowful, weird.
dreamy, devilish.
Therefore refrain from setting the seal
Of condemnation upon the far-extending
art OF dancing.
Let us keep down to the waltz!
THE WALTZ ASALyzED.
When man and girl stand up before
each other for waltz the sensations of
each other cannot naturally be fairly de-
fined by the calm. critical spectator. To
fully appreciate the entire anticipations of
the girl or the complete conjectures of the
man it might be necessary to 90 back q
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 tyr
amy and that the girl was fluttering like
a frightened dove ut this moment.
They waltz..
There is no need of going round the
room with them. You miss them, and
you will stake your lite they are out IN
the conservatory.
Now, you will readily admit | am sure.
that the waltz exerts an emotional and
sentimental influence upon the partici-
pants. And in an instance such IA the
above good and proper influence, per-
hags. I'm , - . g.. 49,,
healthy young people of differing sexes
about to waltz together Immediately after
their first meeting. She is about ID years
of age, tall. slender, delicately carved
tinted with the dainty hues OF virginia.
purity, golden haired, and altogether ex'
quisite to look upon. He is good formed
strong and clean built young fellow, with
big, knowing eyes and u jolly mustache
She rises from her place beside her
mother and yields herself up to her
strange but reassuring 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 girls waist
inside of six months And he could only
do il then by proving to her that he had
good mind us well IA a good arm. The
waltz has purified an insult into conven'
tionality.
THE wITCHERY or 1T ALL.
But to return to the young people who
are now floating away over pink clouds
like seraphs. In the young mans left
hand rests the right hand of the girl.
There is really no part OF the latter = safipy
softness touched by the fingers Of the man,
for at this epoch OF social regulations they
are both wearing gloves. But three is the
little thing, lust " pretty as a Hover
petal, and crushed, if you like. as easily.
The girl slips slightly and utters faint
little cry. Tier partner takes tighter hold
OF her hand, laughs with her, and the
waltz reels on. the frmer grasp of hands
not being relaxed.
"Ah, hal" growls the cynic. He
couldn't press her hand like that in less
than ten weeks il it were not for this vul-
CARRYING waltz
To the maiden in her dance again! Her
fair, young head reaches up to such
point on the young man as to bring the
last fluffy skeins of her golden hair just
opposite his lips. There is u perfume in
those cleaning coils--not an artificial per-
fnme, but the rich, honest fraGrace OF
cleanness and beauty
The young man inhales gratefully this
refined odor of hair.
.'Why," puts in the cynic, ''he wouldnt I
get near enough to find that smell in three
months if society didn't give him the
privilege to steal it in the cheap way he is
doing" =,
Ii You have waltzed you will know.
Let us suppose that you are girl; thet
YOUR right cheek comes about four inches
from the shirt collar of your partner.
Your neck, ali lovely with luminous
sheen like moonlight 1t is exactly under
his gaze. If you are not as agil as fawn
your knees are bound to bump against his
ut irregular intervals. Should the room
be crowded, as it usually is, you and he
are constantly coming into collision with
your gracious but massive companion
dancers. The effect is Austering, even ii
not wholly disastrous.
Let us return to the golden headed ex-
ample we took 10 commence with. There
she sails ike q glad, mad fairy, supported
by the willing arms Of her silent partner
A ssnsuous melody sigbs from the arbor oi
ferns and palms, the air grows heavier
with light and fragrance, there is rush