The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-24
Some Extraordinary Revelations Of
High Jinks in English
Society.
Ar,stocratic Fashionables Dancing
solos In Garments Light and
Transparent


T0pecial Correspondents OF TIE lNDEfENDENT.I
LONDON, July 18.-It sounds like . Lon
don street cry, legs and souls al fresh
sleos and souls Not q bit Of it, quite con-
trariwise--it ia the very last now thing IN
upper tendon, where the one creed that
eyery one steadfastly convinced Of isl
believe in amusement At all risks, at all
hazards, the ball must be kept going, and
must be made to roll faster and faster.
But Who will invent any new way tor 1t to
roll? The old grooves are getting fat, nay,
shiny, with use.
Society is getting bored to death with the
old round of balls and parties, receptions
and 'musics' NO matter how brilliant they
may be, after all they are very much like
ono another year after year. We get used
to any amount Of display and extravagance.
It Is in vain that hostssses aeap up banks
of costly orchids and roses in their
gorgeous rooms, or trail rare exotics up
their bannisters, or drape the electric lights
in seductive Indian fabrics of soft hues. or
cover their own white shoulders with price
less diamonds and sapphires till they dazzle
again. All this is taken for granted now,
and something else, something new,
ALIVE tpo %Sat has Sons
before, something that everyone cannot
copy, out of the way, bizarre, homogeneous
even-this il what the blase pleasure
seeker looks for wherever he goes, and hnds!
All, yes, once in q blue moon, perhaps, ana
then he clutches it with greedy hand,
tastes Of it over and over again till the rar
ity, the very essence Of it's charm, IS gone
for him forever.
Never was there go mad and merry sea-
son in London as this for instance-and
what do you think some of the very smart
est ladies have invented by way OF new
especially those of the opposite Il will
not say sterner) sex7 Why nothing less
than observation-disclosures OF your stodgy
old round dances two and two, and all go
ing round together with few venerable
dowaQers to look on. All that is changed
now BY the really smart ahd lively people
an art of some kind it seems society must
dabble in nowadays, and here is one that
calls for no exercise of brains but only OF
But the funny part of it all is that this
dancing set in society are by no means
brainless folk. On the contrary the very
houses where the dancing goes on are the
centers Of that social clique who have got
to be known by the name of Souls" Who
first christened them 1.-THE Souls" no one
knows. They declare it was not their own
doing. It is to be feared that some one
with sense of humor must have stood
godfather to them.
Besides the dancing souls, there are a
good many ladies in society now who dance
show dances for their friends. amusement
and for their own, sometimes under the
auise of q charitable performance, such as
took place at the Opera Comique short
time ago. A comic opera called Joan, o,
the Brigands of Bluegoria," was then per
formed entirely by ladies' and gentlemen
and very we'll performed, too. The sole
dancing was, however, the great feature OF
the opera. The Lady Augusta Fame danced
a pas de deux with Mr.. Charles Colnaghi
and showed considerable amount of grace
Mrs. Grundy was rather shocked at the very
transparent gauze Lady Augusta's Turkish
trousers were made of; the pretty legs Ger
tainly showed through ths gauze, but why
wasted beauty in the modern world; the re-
fined and art-loving Greeks of old thought
no shame of showing their shapely bodies
and the effect on their sculptures was high.
ly satisfactory to art.
Another really charming dance in
"Bluegoria'' was a pas de deux, bv the
Misses Savile Clarke. two very pretty
golden haired sisters. we'll known in society
who really rivalled Lefty Lind in Their
grace and lightness of movement. They
were very picturesquely dressed in red and
green accordion pleated dresses and moth.
ing could be more modest than their full
black lisse under-skirts, black silk stock
ings and black satin shoes. A comic dance
by four well-known gentlemen was also 9
great success. It is not often that English.
men can shake off their mauvaise homie
enough to dance: not only with fun, bn,
be seen that in London society at thit
moment 'legs is riz," let MS hope that souli
are not going to fall in proportion.