Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-21
Written for The Evening Star.

peanut DANDY, no ten-cent, tnree-for-a-quarter
dude, but q genuine swell He splendidly
dressed aud he ssuntered lazily along like one
to whom time was no object There Is an in
imitabls walk Of the man that lives on an in
come and has no occupation that no vulgar
toileg ever can possess 1t isn't that he walks
alovly and lazily, it is that the walk says
plainly, Il don't do anything for a living"
Well, this swell strolled simlessly along. He had
come from nowhere in particular and he was
not going to any particular place. aud there
Vas no reason why he should have been in the
street, except that there was equally no reason
Why he should have stayed in doors. He met
friend ssrolling aimlessly like himself. The two
stopped and approached one another care
lessly. They had nothing that they wanted to
talk about They we're not particularly glad to
zee each other. But it was less exertion TO stop
than to walk on, so the two swells stopped and
stood looking at one an other. Each felt that il
VS. incumbent upon the other TO speak. So
they stood looking grayeiy at one another In
impressive silence. A Lady passed them by,
aud they both smiled slighfly and bowed. Then
each thought this event will call forth an OBJ
serystioa, and each waited for the other to
spectacle, came up and profsered its services,
but 90 they we're not conversational services ii
was treated with silent contempt.
THE SILENCE Is BROKEN.
hsrdio cab drove up to the curb. the driver
backed his horse, let the door fly open and the
passengers we're dumped out like load of coal.
Que Of the passengers was pretty woman and
she made right up TO the two silent syells and
accosted them familiarity. She called them by
name and was evidently friend OF both of
what are you two lazy men doing standing
here idly in the market place? Come, l want
you both for my tea this afternoon You will
help me choose some flowers and then come
home with me-"
Compliance was easier than resistance, and
the two were led captive into the florists and
afterwari assisted the lady at her tea-that is,
they STOOD around" and we're ornamental even
If they were not useful. Inasmuch as they had
gone to the tea together they left it together,
and as they walked down toward their club
one rsmarksd to the other:
saw. yaws! Amt you glad that the dawncing
Is over? Don't you, aw. find il bore. old mani"
''Yaws, Pawstiyely yays, deuced OF bore
don't you know. Iayoid it, if ! can" was the
This intellectual effort exhausted the abilities
OF the syells and they spoke no more.
DIFFERENT CONVERSATION.
This was a somewhat different conversation
from the one that might have been heard about
the same time between young college man
and . lovely little girl.
.'Oh. ! ann so sorry that We are TO have no
more dancing. 1 just adore it. Don't you?"
said the girl
with some people, yes," said the young
man, but, do you know, that while am
pretty powerful fellow and am on the foot bali
team, some Of the girls dance me almost to
This young fellow spoke truth young
girl gets excited by the music, and when she
starts to dance she enjoys it so thoroughly that
she entirely forgets that her partner Is not
made of iron. He has to do the greater part of
the work He must guide her and be careful
that pobody bumps into her. She leans on his
shoulder and he has to support certain per-
csntage OF her weight She can stop when she
chooses, but he ean't-that is, not always. At
any rate, he ought not to stop until his partner
10 tired, but sometimes clever fellow stops
hrst without appearing to do So There are a
number Of ways Of doing this. all of which may
effectively be put into practice II you know
hos TO do it.
How TO END A DANCE.
The most usual way OF bringing wha: -ould
otherwise be interminable pleasure to an
end is to purposely bump into another couple,
then stop, apparently filed with anxiety to
know If your partner has sustained any dam
age, and don't offer to begin again She may
suspect, but she is powerless to do anything
unless she is an independent young lady, in
vhieh event she will propose to continue dane
ing, and then there is no help for you. You
viii have to see the thing through. This scheme
of humping in is really the best, and if it is
carefully carried out will not fail to achieve its
purpose
Another ingenious plan is to purposely slip
and then to pretend you have famed your foot.
OF course your partner is bound to stop, but
you may forget all about your little game when
she leaves You and she may observe you walk
Ing Of without the shadow Of . limp. This
scheme cannot be recommended save in ex-
treme cases.
There once q lazy man in Washington
who used to faint when he saw no prospect of a
dance ever stopping. He would suddenly stop.
psnt Tor breath and make for a seat. and there
he would call his friends and be lifted gently
Into the dressing ROOM 1t began to be sus-
peeted after while that he was shamming and
somebody asked him one day in the presence Of
Others how long he had been afflicted with cpl
iepsy Ii Is needless to say that he tainted NO
more after that III.
GOOD DANCERS ARE CHARMING.
But after ali it isn't q difficult thing for two
people who are good dancers to dance dance
through, from the first note Of the music to the
last IL there is human being on earth who
does not think that couple vsltzing well is a
bsautifui sight 1t u the disgruntled, disagree
able old ereature who vas too eIamsy ever to
have been able to dance himself. There are
plenty Of those people in the world. There are
hodearriers who sneer at brieklayers. simply
bscause they themselves never were bright
enough to learn how 10 lay bricks There are
eopyists who profess contempt for authors
Nfosf rough drafts they are paid to transcribe
aud In the same way there are sanctimonlous
people vho can't dance and who never could
dance who profess To see something wicked
and immoral in young people dancing.
Honl soit qui NAL pense- II you are snch
wretched moral wreck as to dance like 4
satyr. for heavens sake don't display your
svil-mindednsss By objecting to the amuse-
ment Of purer-minded people. Dancers are
not always good people, but dancing never
made q good person bad in the world. Even
the foreigners, with whom dancing is a yiolent
exercise that might be objected TO with some
slight reason, are uneoncious OF any evil in it
and " they are unconscious Of evil, why there
can be no evil
Put 10 down 40 not least among the virtues oil
NJ Americans that are the only people on
earth sho knog hOw ~ waltz. and the waltz Is
OF course, the most beautiful of dances. fe
u Is . strange thing that professors of dancing
IN America are nearly all foreigners or men ol
foreign extraction They teach the American
dApces exelusiyely, but they are rarely Ameri
cans themselves The reason Is found prob
ably in the fact that the average American
would consider the business Of q professor o
dancing as too frivolous a one.
FOREIGNERS DANCE BADLY.
III any one has ever been to u ball in Europ,
% 70 q ball here where there are many foreign
srs, be must have felt his breast swell with
pride because Of the superiority Of his fellow
countrymen- Foreigners like TO dance ,
vhiriigig galop called the Jeux-temps. Their,
mil Two ~ IN a..