Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-10
KICKED EIGHT FEET.
Miss Jeanette Duprex's High Kick fol
Fifty Dollars.
From the New York jour

"Bet you fifty that Jeanette can kick
the highest"
"Donew
"All right. To be decided here on the
spot"
They were both the toniest sort of
swells, both Union Club men, both rich.
both out for lark. The place was the
public parlor of the Sea Beach Palace
Hotel at Coney Island; the time was last
evening at about $50 o'clock.
And who were the girls?
Ballet-dancers and high kickers by pro-
fession; members of Nine. Sulki's Hun
garian troupe; companions of the pretty
girl who eloped with the Indian cornet-
player And they were pretty, too. One
of them had black hair which curled in
little ringlets close to her shapely head;
eyes as dark and dreamy as a houri's;
wonderfully clear complexion, albeit it
was slightly Drowned by a life passed
under southern skies, and double row of
small, white even teeth which glistened
ever and anon as she parted her rich red
lips in dazzling smile. Her name was
Jeanette Duprex.
The other girl was also very lovely. She,
too, was brunette, and her hair was
smooth and glossy but her eyes were dark
gray instead of black. Her name was
Adelina Zelka
Both maidens had superb figures, supple
and graceful from the constant training
which their vocation entails. They were
dressed in street costume.
The TWO clubmen had spoken to the
girls and had hirted innocently with them
to pass an idle half hour away The girls
had been fattered by the attentions from
such aristocratic cavaliers, and their heads
were turned little. So, when one of the
men proposed the bet and it was SO
promptly accepted, the girls were quite
willing to do their part, especially when
it was agreed that the man who won the
bet should pay $50 to the highest kicker.
A gas-bracket ON the parlor wall was
conveniently near, and one of the men
arose and hung his hat on it. As measured
afterward, it was feet 102 inches from the
floor.
There's something to KICK" he said
Adelina Zelka first essayed to touch the
hat with the toe of her dainty shoe, but
fell far short. Three times she was al
lowed to try, and although she came closer
at each successive trial she could not reach
it.
Then Jeanette Duprex's turn came.
Catching her skirts in both her hands and
raising them little so that they would
not be in her way, she stood for moment
several feet from the object of attack.
Then she walked deliberately-even
Straightforward it, stopped, gave little
skip and jumped quite off the floor As
she did SO her right foot shot straight up;
the toe of her russell shoe struck the hat
sharp clip, and the hat fell to the ground.
So did Jeanette. She landed on her
back and lay there for moment.
The noise of her fall brought Manager
Latta running from one direction and
Nine. Sulki, the leader of the ballet girls.
from another. They were both furious,
and the girls escaped, Jeanette with her
$50.
Madame vowed that she would discharge
the girls on the spot, and Latta swore that
they should never appear on his stage
again, but the clubmen were men of the
world, and by dint of much talking, apollo
giving and explaining, assisted by mag
mum of champagne, they smoothed mat
tiers over.
But the girls did not make their APP
pearauce again all the evening.