Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-25

ootllIons are really very elegant balls.
and the opening one IL the formal begin
n.ng OF the season In Baltimore. speak
Ing OF dancing. II Is not generally known
that round dances were first Introduces
into fashionable American society IN Bai-
tlmore by Professor Hlasco. Polish
dancing master. previous 20 which time
the waltz was eeen only on the stag
NJ. Hlasco had been met abroad Dy
Mr.. William George Read ana MT. WIZ
kens Glenn, two Baltimore gentlemen,
who invited him TO come here. The best
people IN Baltimore aent their sons anu
daughters TO IIlasco's dancing academy.
Among his pupils were Miss Hetty Sary
(Mrs, John pegram). Misses Mamie h'us-
ley. Mamie GIL. Mary Whitridge' SAiie
Cushing. and others. Among the promi-
nent BaItmoreans who attended Hlasco
academy may be mentioned ferdinand
G. Latrobe, Charles Carroll. John hasv'
Howard. Iiolllns McKine, Henry Sarroii'
Willie Key Howard, and others.
DRIVING AND CYCLING.
According 10 the London Chronicle.
English ladies now take n special delight
in driving pair OF smart, gamy-looKlns
cobs tandem" This must make IL
dreadful for everybody else on the ROADS
for even when lady Ia driving only
the entire highway. Ward McAllister, In
a Newport letter. says: ION my FIRST
visit to the Golf Club I met one OF
Baltimore's great bellies, n young woman
with an unmlstakable aristocratic bear
ing. possessing great personal charm,
fine type OF an English high-bred beauty,
though she was born and brought up
In Maryland, coming from our very best
and oldest Colonial stock. She drove
GnA
in-hands in this country, handling the
relns with consummate skill" Every
fashionable woman now either rides
bicycle or is going 10 do so.--that Is,
In the northern cities she does. In Balti-
more they all talk about wheeling, and
some OF them go TO the bicycle school
regularly, and really seem In earnest
about the thing.
And golf! Why is nothing being done
about golf? This game has also become
society fad. and all the cities should
take up this game. for society has re-
cognlzed that exercise Is great thinS
for the complexion, and the most iash-
ionable women are now taking long ana
systematic walks at unearthly hours III
the morning They are even using dumb
bells and swinging Indian clubs. If II
keeps on the men will have TO look 10
their laurels and the size Of their Diceps.
ENGAGEMENT.
The engagement of Miss Helen Carroll.
the daughter Of Ex-Governor John Lee
Carroll. to Count Charles Won TENT XIII
chen. n lieutenant in a Bavarian cavalry
regiment. Is announced Miss Carroll mas
spent most Of her time abroad and IN
Washington. but Is well known in Balt-
more society.
Mrs. Harriet Lane-Johnston, VINO is
sDendlng the winter at her home IN
Washington, was for fifteen years one
of the most brilliant ornaments or Balu-
more society Mr.. Johnston met MISS
Lane at Bedford Springs. Pennsylvania
I'm the golden days of youth. she was
educated ut the Visitation Convent
GEORGETOWN, while her uncle James
buchanan. was Secretary of state under
the Polk Administration. and Miss Lane
spcnt every Saturday and Sunday with
him At his house she met all that was
best. brightest, and distinguished In the
nation. and acquired the ease and grace
Of manner which afterward attracted the
admiration OF the Court of England. ms
was between 1852 and 1856. when Mr..
buchanan was American Minister there.
She became a great favorite OF Queen
Victoria. and when the Prince of Wales
visited the United States In the autumn
of 1860 he was invited by President
buchanan to make his home In the White
House during his stay In Washington,
and Miss Lane contributed greatly to
make this visit agreeable TO the Prince.
This was the last time that an heir-ap-
parent TO the English throne ever visited
the Capitol of the 'ost Colonies.