New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-13

THE TOOICHFST-A BOSTON BE ANPOT.
There is practically no salon" in America. unless
perhaps al Washington where people do meet 70 talk
more Or less In New York it is rare that an
evening entertainment is given solely for converse
t,on with only some very light refreehment In lieu o.
n supper; and vet such reunions are very pleasant
snd ENJOYABLE and people learn TO knOw each other far
better where they comfortably sit down and CON
verse than at dance. where they are liable TO con
slant interruption. stan people always hesitate TO
ask their friends IN their houses without some specific
object: Il must be either for SEINE muslc' card
marty OF some kind or "a dance. Yet nine-tenths or
these very people would rather talk with one another
than do anything else.
forged letter is generally more Or less easily de-
tected but who would suspect telegraphic message
The paper can be obtained at any Office and as the
handwriting is always unknown and the envelope Is
rarely critically scanned any deception would DC coh
paravey easy An adventure which might nave re-
suited in catastrophe but for one Of those fortu'ous
meetings that some people call chance, and others
more pously ascribe to Providence. occurred In tle
writer's own circle not many months ago. and suggests
The question whether the telegraph companies shonio
not be recommended TO keep their ohcla paper u'oi
Jock and key. giving ordinary blank sheets 10 thoSe
desiring to write message.
Not very long ago Mrs. s. received what was ap'
parety an authentic telegram from her husband VINO
had been looking at several country places along te
Sound with view to purchase The message ran as
follows: Meet at Stamford to sign papers MI
son from Office will call for you at IL ana uo
company you" Thinking tie telegram perieous
natural one under the circumstances. Mrs s. dohheu
cloak and hat and waited her husbands emisSary VINO
shortly arrived in cab. He was stranger 10 her'
but not being familiar with all the clerks in the once
She suspected nothing, and was about TO depart VIII"
him to the station when by the strange coincidence
which has been already spoken OF, her HUSBAND "iio
never left the Office til late in the afternoon was seen
walking up the street. As he told his wife siterw'rd
he had occasion TO some important paper thal ne
had left in his safe at home. As Mrs. S turned 10
him. expressing her surprise at seeing him when
she had supposed him to be in stamford the preeho'N
clerk jumped into the cab, called ont some directions
to the driver and was driven rapidly away OF conrss
the message bogus; but Mrs. SIS fine soitalres
which she constantly WORE and her costly rings were
not bogus and her excitement and fright may be I'm
agned when she found that her husband never wired
her TO meet him at stamford At all.
The small girls Of the period are not it seems, to
be allowed to grow up with the somewhat free.and-
easy manners of their elder sisters. An era OF more
elaborate drawingroom etiquette Is apparently taking
the place of the somewhat careless period which FOL
lowed natural reaction 70 the overstrained curtsc'
and genufeo tons of the polite society in tho times OF
our forefather. For although yet not exaggerated
the deep bows and graceful cursirs in" again anf
system of training and taught how to enter a
room, how to sit down, how to get up. how TO walk,
and, above ALL to make the pretty reverence IN
shaking hands with an older person. which Is so be-
coming and appropriate and which is now de rgeur
This training far from making children selfconscOu,
As has been sugGesed-by causing them TO think too
much Of themselves and Of the attention they excite
acts quite in the opposite direction, and tends to
prevent this very thing. Working together In a
class and following the directions Of their mistress
rs matter course the little 1rls the bear
ing and movements desired with straightforward and
natural simplicity and Inconsistencies that is charm
ing the most successful teachers Of department
In New York at present Is lady who In her day
q well known dancer. She il very graceful In all Of
her haute ecole Of may the expression move
ments and il is interesting 10 watch how her little
pupils copy unconscously her poses and gestures as
she teaches them not only how 10 dance but how TO
stand walk and sit.
But it is not only the children's bodies that are
being trained to be supple and graceful II seems TO
be quite fad for middle aged women to practise
all sorts Of extraordinary movements Last year the
Delsartean culture all the among society
women and this season Out tell it not in GATH
aetdancing is attempted. 1t must look rather droll
to buxom Danes who fair fat and forty, fisk
ing about in their short petticOas. which 10
the ankle TO give the woud-be danscuscs perfect
freedom Of motion. However II is probably excellent
exercise. and there is why dancing should
not be as allowable any other calisthenics.
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