The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-31
GAY SUMMER DANCERS.
How Mile. LanGuor anc New York's
Tough Girl Dance.

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New York July 30-Somehow, in the
summer time, if one stays in New Y ork,
one sees an element that isn't visible during
the few days that fashionable people call
l." the season." For instance, Mile.
Languor slowly moves through waltz at
Newport or Bar Harbor, and quietly re-
quests her partner TO reverse, because it is
so ''unpIeasantly American" But Maggie,
on the East Side, can dance, and dance no
matter how hot the night is, aud would think
very little Of a partner who couldn't reverse
her in the received fashion. 1t is a
fashion that 10 decidedly energetic But
she ia used TO it. After she has consented
30 "twirl" she Is violently seized by the
young man, clutched closely to bis bosom,
his huge red hand is spread out on her
back, while his other one, grasping hers, is
stretched out the full length of the arm and
works up and down like pump handle.
Mile. Languor might feel that she
was being held rather closely, but Maggie
never thinks of suoh thing And yet ETH
quette rules with an iron rod at any
bail on the East Side, and the gentleman or
lady who fails TO observe all its rules 10
simply, but firmly, bounced long before the
evening is over.
"INTERDUCE ME- TO SOME GIRL"
II Tommy comes into the hall and has no
''lady friend" but knows "some OF de fell
lers,n he gives one Of them a nudge under
the arm, and says, "Interduce me to some
girl" Then follows the Introduction. Tom
my Is gently but emphaticslly praucet up to
young woman whose costume is gay with
| pink streamers aud who is, as friend near
| her remark, "gettin' her wind" after pro-
l0nged waltz. Her gentleman friend says,
'Mr. Tommy rlaherty, let me interduce
you to Miss Maggie O'Hara." Maggie
| gives q smirk and bow, the streamsrs
| fly In every direction, one getting
over the neck OF her steady CONS
pany and Mr.. Flaherty shufiies on one
foot, and says. PLEASED to meet you"
You'd think there would be some converse
ton after this, but there isn't. Maggie
looks at her steady, aud then she looks at
| his friend; then she straightens all the pink
ribbons, and when the music begins she
| taps her foot impatiently on the floor.
| She hasn't come there to improve her
mind; she hasn't come there to extend her
circle of acquaintance. She has come there
| for ono thing only, aud that is 60 dance.
| Mopplng his fevered brow with handker-
chief that has pink monkeys on it's border,
Mr.. Flaherty says to the steady, Say.
Chimmy kin l give Miss Maggie a twiri"
| And Chimmy, looking with pride on his
| possession, atfably answers,
''YoU KIN TAKE HER"
Then they begin to dance, and they never
| stop until the music does. All over the hall,
no matter what is whirling and
| twirling, Maggie's pink ribbons are floating
to and fro, and MRggIes bright face shows
| how she is enjoying herself. The dance
over, Mr.. Flaherty starts to return her to
Chimmy, and the three of them
sit down and Mr.. Flaherty enter-
tsins them with a glass of so-called
| haar--that ia If Ia thraa-oua tara
foam aud one-quarGer beer. Chimmy tells
how Maggie aud he won the prize at the
last dauce, and Maggie fondly says: There
| amt no gentleman in the ward that can
| give the steps that he canl"
Soon the music begins, and to Maggie's
| surprise she is permitted to dance again
! with the stranger. She suggests to him the
she would like TO stop when the dance is
about half over, and tells him that she
wants to be taken where Chimmy is In
| her face is O combination of sorrow and
suspicion.
MAGGIE'S LABOR AGITATION.
Chimmy is soon found; he is sitting at a
| table with four other men, one OF whom is
violently Gphraiding all employers, who is
insisting that the workingman doesn't get
his due, and who is advising the rest Of the
party to go out and strike for higher
| wages. All the fight in CHIMNEY is up.
Maggie stands behind him for just a minute,
then she puts her hand on his shout
der. Startled, he sees her. Then she looks
the man who is talking right straight In the
face, aud she says; ''Chimmy will have
nothin 10 do with yous. You got no bust
ness talkin' to decent men-youre O loafer
yourself, who lets your poor wife earn your
bread and butter for you, while you're run
min round talkin' aud talkin' and dom
nothin' but talkin'. Chimmy's got a good
| place. and good employer, and he does
good work, and he gets good wages, and If
| you did the same you'd have the respect of
everybody, instead OF bein' supported by a
| sick WON m. What did your anarchist
| friends do for you when your two
children died last wInter9 Nothin'! II
was honest workmen like Chimmy who
took their money and buried them pore little
souls, and who fixed your wife SO she could
rest for a week or ten days. Don's come
around here with your nonsense about the
the workingman telng better than his en-
ployer; he's just as good aud just as indie
pendent when he does good work, but when
| he's lazy hound like YOU, he deserves Just
what he gets, and that's too good for him.
Come on Chimmy; Pa going to the floor
committee to have this man put out"
CHIMNEY looks very downcast, but there
is an expression about Maggie's mouth aud
q irmness in the way the ribbons hang that
means victory or death.
MAGGIE HAS MR. HOGAN FIRED
She goes up to one Of the floor committee,
a gentleman respondent in a waxed mus
tache and many badges, and she says: "Say,
| Mr.. Mulligan, that fool Of a Hogan, who
| does nothing but work mischief and never
! buys any beer is maxim trouble between
my CHIMNEY and me. Now, you know
! that there isn't girl that comes TO these
balls that makes them pay as well as do,
and If that Hogan amt put out at onct, me
| and my company 60, and we never comes
| back no more" Mr.. MulliZan gave his best
| bow aud said he would do anything to obIige
q lady like Miss Maggie, so, with the as
sistance Of bouncer. Mr.. Hogan Is helped
out Of the hall. Pm sure Maggie and sent
! up the same prayer, thet he might be kicked
| out OF every place where he tried to infamo
the minds OF the honest worknen because
be was a lazy cur himself.
RAINBow-C0LoRED FINERIEs.
! You look down at the ball room, and it
| suddenly strikes you that never In your life
mad YOU seen so many yards of ribbon-pink
| aud pale green seem TO be the favorite col
oTs. There are ribbons hanging from
shoulders. there are ribbons arranged as
braces, there are ribbons that hang
down in straight Independence from
/ the neck and theEe are ribbons caresanR a