The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-24
The Difference.

winter you will see IL at all the nice en-
terta inments.
The Difference.
I have wondered, in my work, how
many people know the difference between
dancing master and teacher of dane
ing. Let me tell you just here what tho
difference IS. So many people continually
confound them that the public should
have an explanation here and now. When
you have learned to dance any dance, say
the Com animation Polka Ouadrille for ex-
ample, you are master of dancing SO
far as that one dance is concerned. Now,
if you can teach what you have learned
you become dancing teacher, but If, as
is generally the case, you can only dance
it without being able to teach others how
TO do it, then you are just dancing
master. Do you see the differencei
The Berlin will be popular dance
along with the other dances mentioned,
and the waltz is ever and perennially
favorite. 1t may be hoped, it may be
slid, it may be dipped or it may be muir
dered outright, yet it continues to live,
than the hardest cat that you ever at
tempted to drown.
why 1t Lives.
Why does the waltz live. Because it
is beautiful, and even the worst dancer
cannot make it really vulgar.
There is a suggestiveness about the
military and even more than suggestive
ness about the racquette, but the waltz
is refined, and if it is made otherwise by
the deep dip or the long slide it is be-
cause the dancer chooses to make it so.
1t is going to be fashionable next win
ter for people to gather together in the
afternoon or evening for dancing lessons,
which will include entering the room in
proper manner, handing chair po-
litely, sitting and rising gracefully, and
bowling for street use
One day each week in my home in St.
Louis / teach poor children these things.
Six or seven hundred often come in a
single day, and their ages vary from two
to twenty years. The poor need TO know
how to dance as we'll as the rich: indeed,
if anything it is even more desirable
that they should learn to amuse them
selves inexpensively and harmlessly than
for the rich who have everything within
their reach.
1t is not often that a fad begins among
the poor and then travels upward along
the social scale, but in this case it is really
going to be so.
iat- hn hay or IN,
these charity schools of mine have become
impressed with the necessity as well as
the beauty and dignity of graceful walk
ing and dancing, and so next winter l
shall organize classes for young men who
wish to know how to hand chair prop
erly to their ''lady love-" and perhaps
another class for the lady loves them
selves who are DESTROYS of learning how
such courtesies should be accepted.
The Rye.
A round dance which will be so popular
that it must not be ignored now is the
Rye This is best described by saying
that it is combination between the
Esmeralda and the pointing of the toe. 1t
is danced to schottishe and polka time.
None of the new dances are vulgar or
suggestive, but are graceful, pretty and
are executed to rather slow music. In all
my twenty-six years experience, and |
have been teaching dancing since | was
nine years old / have never known
season to start out so propitiously as re-
CARDS the pretty dances.
You can sit and watch the figures of
the round dances and quadrilles by the
hour, sdmiring each one every moment
more than you did last. They grow upon
you too, for they are catchy" even
though stately.
OF course, you believe in dancing. 1t
IS such an innocent, harmless amusement
that you cannot fail to look upon it with
favor if you are a sensible person. Dane
ing is chosen by fairy lore as the amuse-
ment of the nymphs II is famed in
poetry and sung in song Children dance
by instinct. Il seems az Il it were the
way in which nature expresses its happi-
ness.
And yet there Is a minister who SAYS
that "a person must be crazy or drunk TO
dance - JAcoP MAILER