Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-16
THE ANXIOUS HOSTESS.
The Society Young Man and His Love
for Posing.

Inc society 1OunE MAN and HIS Love
for Posing.
From the Gentlewoman.
Hostesses are beginning to complain with
bitterness Of the difficulty of finding men
willing to dance. The complaint is, Of
course, not a new one. For several sea-
| sons past men have shown an increasing
| disinclinatton to exert themselves in the
giddy valse or in the rather grim quad
| rifle. The lancers have found them inert
and the polka has merely set them yawn-
| ing. Yet girls continue to love the ball.
as dearly as the young person in Mack
worth Pracd's poem. What can be the
reason? Probably the boredom of the men
is to considerable extent mere affecta-
tion Young men are, as rule, more self
conscious more childishly affected than
| young women. They are very nearly as
| vain, sometimes far more So and a good
zeal more foolish. The consequence is that
| they are perpetually posing and there are
fashions IN poses as there are fashions in
everything else. AT present it is the fash
| ION to pose as a non-dancer. The whole
| thing is TOO much trouble for the gilded
| youth. He is Worn to thread with intel
| iectual exertion. Dancing is a friyolfty
beneath his notice. He can gamble enthu-
| siastically enough. He can eat supper and
swallow champagne until the marvel Is
| that he still lives. He can get up early TO
go racing. and sit up late drinking in
| Vulnerable WHISTLES and sodas. He can run
after popular actresses and ride in steeple-
| chases but dancing is altogether beyond
him-at present.
But depend upon 1t, the tide will turn
and the fashion will change. Dancing is
not a pastime that will ever entirely die
| out. 1t has lasted too long in various
forms, and the poses of silly young men
cannot kill it. They will never yawn it into
the limbo of things forgotten, and, If they
did they would probably be the first to
| regret it. For balls have attractions for
| them. and they go to them, though often
| not to dance They go to sup. and occa-
sionally to hirt, for sitting OUT is a very
| their cards with the names of partners
| pledged to sit out with them and to do
! nothing else. In quiet hooks and corners
of pretty house you will always find
young people ensconced, whether the band
| is playing valse or whether 1t is not
They are probably talking the merest nom
| sense. but what does that matter? They
| are enjoying themselves. and enjoyment
| is our main object In going to enter
| tainment. Only the cotilon lures them
| to the parquet, for they are far too modern
| to wish to miss the chance of q pretty
present. We are nothing nowadays If we
| are not greedy. We must have hot quails
We are no longer satisfied with ribbon.
or cracker. We want feather fans and
| bracelets and diamond pins. and If we do
not get them We grumble, and declare We
| won't play any more. Some day, per-
| haps, we shall return to simplicity. Then
| the young men will dance every dance and
the young maidenS will appear in white
| muslins, with flowers in the hair. In the
| meantime the philosopher smiles and the
| anxious hostess is in despair.
Must Bow to Etiquette.
From the Berliner Tageblatt.
| Mother-"Johnny, go down to the gro
GERS and get a pound of black tea
Johnny-'I haerd pa say he didn't like
black tea"
| Mother-''It makes no difference what
your father says, Johnny. This family is
| in mourning, now"
| Modified.
From the indianapolis Journal.
Watts-"Iid you try that hot-water cure
| for your cold?"
| Potts-"Yes. 1t is simply great, too. You
see mixed it with q little whisky and
| lemon, and never had anything slip down
|