The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-04

Denver Youths Mieht BE Dancing Yet
Bat For The Police.


one o. the closing events Of the social
season In Denver, Col, came near being
the closing event In the careers Of several
youths. IL was an endurance waltz and
began at 9 O'Clock on Monday. ending on
the afternoon Of Memorial day.
There were twenty young men who en-
tered this peculiar western icStlvlty with
| light hearts and feet and heads Of absO-
lutte fcatheriness There were five when
the police, with brutal disregard Of
youthful athletic zeal, terpsichOrean
grace and social pleasure, put an end to
the competition after eighteen hours and
thlrty-six minutes. Those who had fallen
by the way were exhausted and dis
heveled, but doubtless they resented the
curtallmg of their opportunity 10 win
deathless Colorado fame
Each competitor had the privilege of
dancing with six young women who re-
neVcd each other at intervals. The young
men, however, were not allowed to pause.
Ihey were obliged to keep up the move
ment TO slow waltz music without a mo-
ment's respite. If the desire for refresh
ment grew strong within them bowls of
soup were handed them, and with a part
ner in one hand and soup bowl in the
other the dancers continued theircompeti-
tive revelry If they showed any desire
10 pause for moment there were those
TO shout gaily: "On with the dance, let
JOY be uncontined;' and they had to ION"
with it or be forever branded as weak of
heart and limb.
Perforce some of them dropped out from
time to time. Vertigo, faintness and
kindred weaknesses claimed them.
The mother of one of the ambitious
youths followed her son to the scene of
revelry and begged him to desist, with
all her maternal eloquence, but as he
whirled by her in the stalwart arms of
the young woman who was taking her turn
supporting his almost inanimate form he
told her gaspingly that he would as soon
give up the waltz as young Cassabianca,
of burning deck fame, would desert the
ship. Then his mother went sadly out and
informed the police, who were more sue
cessful than she
1t is beautiful picture of western
pluck and endurance that is called before
the mind by the story of this Denver feat,
or, more definitely, of these Denver feet.
An endurance waltz is a beautifully
fitting form of social relaxation in COM
munities farfamed for the hardihood of
the rising generation. An afternoon tea
would be moekery to the strong men,
one grasp of whose hand would shatter a
teacup; reception in which there would
be no room for them to exercise their cele-
DRAFTED activity would be homogeneous, and
even dA OTuludfy Ddll, WlUn us miserable
programme of fifteen or twenty short
dances, would be pig1ny affair to such
giants. ss
But the most interesting feature of the
whole affair is the part played by the anna
zonian girls of Denver. They danced on
and did not faint No watchful mothers
for one instant dreamed of stopping their
exercises. 1t was unnecessary. The
western girl was not exhausted. She
RnIlln dance with fba c n mt c+a,,t
youth while he was fresh. revive his
spirits when they began to flag, and finally
drag him in the may waltz when he
was not quite equal to dragging himself
about. For the western woman appar-
emily is to the western man what that
starlwart being is to the puny, unener-
getic human product of the east.