Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-13
AT TIE SUMMER BAi'Niitt jlEii
IT rs A PLACE wFERe MANS M
PORTANcE IS RECOGNIZED

Same Observations sfpon It's Hnmors by
Young Woman Who Apparently Has
Been There Half Grown Boys and
rnilow Yonths IL Great Demand.
This IS lineage Of wohau's triumph, She
has demonstrated her ability 70 administer
functions 81 honor hitherto delegated 70
mans dominion with dignity and sagacity.
Il Is safe TO predicate from her attitude
that tie coming woman will rule the ma
fions while the coming man rocks the era
die. and 70 prophesy from her success that
the nations will BE governed more wisely
ana the cradle swayed less scientifically
than at present.
But Notwithstanding all this there ~
one place whore the acepter has not depart
cd from Israel where man rules triumph.
ant in all hissprstine superiority, where
the smallest boy ont Of kits and IN trou.
sers Is III Il higher premium than the fair
est. wisest lady III the land, who might,
with her beauty, pat Venus to the blush,
md with her Knowledge cover senior
wrangiers with confustsn And this place
where old traditions ars restored and man
is acknowledged master Is at the summer
hotel dance.
The sweetest kind of a woman's woman,
who Is full Of love and sympathy for her
sex, to whom girls delight IN confessing
their secrets and women coniide their sor
rows, finds little profit orpleasure in dane
ing with woman
MEN lS DEMAND
There is something solemn in the atmos-
phere Of the summer dance, something pa
thetic in the dir Of feigned and hysterical
hilarity among the women who wabble
round the hall In pain, like mechanical
tops whua the spring is broken or the
works need mending,
Thrice blessed the woman who has
husband whom she can coax out OF tennis
shoes and into pumps, out of the smoking
room into the ballroom. How that man
is smiled upon, yietiinized, cajoied into
making a martyr Of himself, and dancing
himself into a fit Of apoplexy with all that
womans friends.
Happy Is the girl with younger broth
er, even II his mustache Is in the pin feath-
cry stage and his voice as little to be de.
pended upon as a worn out accordion, II
only he can sprawl through waltz ana
maintain an upright position -
Envied indeed.is the woman whose little
son, In sash and knickerbockers, has been
taught to step measure in time and order
due
Somebody announces o lanciers or quad
rifle and there is confusion among the
ranks Of dancers The one self sacrificing
Young man who dances dashes about the
isom. out in the Office, down in the billiard
room. moDpng his brow and seeking the
persuadnbe man to come ana I'LL out the
sets rhc girls familiar with the figures
he handktrchiels about their arms ana IN
vito other girls 10 dance, the mothers hunt
m their small boys, and after while the
procession moves with an average OF one
man and one small boy to set
TIE GNoUEsTiONlNG MATRoN.
LITTLE questions the fair dame who at
home delberates most carefully before es-
tablishing the most formal OF friendships
with new ncquantanc the history or
present station of the nlln who IS pre-
eented to her us n partner for n waltz
There Is "A relief in the steady clasp of the
manly arm, the firm touch OF the mascu,
line hand, that renders it immaterlai
whether he weighs ont butter by the pound
or handles Il tailors goose shears when
vacation is over IL only he takes the step
she learned in waltzing md will give her
one or two good turns about the room 90
fore ali the other girls who cannot get
man to waltz with
Little does it concern her TO investigate
in any way his clNim to her regard II nc
lead her through the figure OF the may
dance when older women are depending
upon pnrners of their own persuasion
living white handkerchief signals TO avoid
mistakes.
How the gracious, gratihed lady smiles
unon her unknown partner, waits for HIM
II he is stout, helps him # he is awRWard
teaches him II he is forgetful, and answers
In all sincerity to his conventional thanks
Mt the close of the figure, THE gratitude II
on my side, assure you"
Eyen the girl who can dance independent
lv il looked TIP to after a little by the glrl
who cannot take the masculine part ant
wilson little cliQucs form, as they invariabl!
do In a summer hotel each clique jealousl!
guards the girl man almost as seriously a
they would the genuine article from ap
preparation by the other factions,
THE DANCE ANALYzED.
The summer hotel dance is an admirable
VANTAGE ground from which 10 study tn
terpsichorean art rs modified and IN
huenced by different climates and local
ilies--fhe Wild swoop aud rush OF tn
Colorado pirl. with the freshness and free
dom In its movement that suggests tn
broad. unbroten prairie and billoWy, waV
INC grasses tossed and swnyed by tn
strong wild breezes There's strength am
sneed and life. like the swift dash of wild
unbridled horses with sinewy Hanks an
flashing eyes and widespread nostrilsl
In sharp contrast Is the slow, stated
Glide of the Boston belle, subdued an
steady and ioyless IL speaks of Ion
line ofsstern faced ancestors, repressiv'
taciturn. grave Of specialized schoolmaai
erandmothers who were married late
life. and trained their children with infie'
lille rods of iron according to Scripture
traditions.
The sensuous, dreamy willowy grace {
the southern beauty, with the dusk OF tn
midnight in her eyes, the warmth OF tt
simmer In her smile Not for nothin
aid spanish knight and voiled lady Ian
upon her coasts and l.avc as her inher
anee All the passion ami tAe pride of a NJ
tion famed for duols 81 love and war, a
the supple, swaying f cure, gently yieldiu
20 the eucircliug arm which supports
nonts softly past in 10 melody Of motion
half forgotten Byrouic meters, dim trad
items Of impossible romance return an
are verified,
As the kiss of sunbeams on the crest
the waves, the pose of the humming bil
unnu che breast of o rose, the dart of Il
swallow through the glow of the sunse
il the dance Of the New York girl, merl
and dainty, airy aud free, like the trippir
of elves i'm the sheenlof the moonlight
the reyel Of neaa4 ga the spray of anciei
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