The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Ballroom Etiuueffe.

arrayed.
Accessories, be it noted, must always
be of the neatest and freshest description.
Let the ball-gocr rather elect to have new
gloves and shoes and dainty flowers than
a new dress and soiled details. The lat
ter is the very worst policy, for men, of
whom our admirers consist, always notice
nice gloves, pretty flowers and shoes and
well-dressed hair sooner than they d. the
smartness of a gown.
The economical girl should select bail
gown that will stand wear and the
knocking about inev1tab BILE to ballroom,
and yet look neat at the end of the even
ing and suitable for similar functions
afterward. For this reason she should
never purchase a diaphanous fabric, like
tule or chiffon; neither should she have
her gown made with any pretense to a
train.
Trains, happily, are out of date OIL
dresses for dancing purposes, and l
should suggest that a young bride, de-
should have the train cut off before she
wears it at ball. To my mind there is
trace of indelicacy when bride after
ward wears her wedding dress just as it
was on the eventful day itself, save. of
course, for the encircling veil.
When dressing the hair for ball, the
girl who hopes to be comfortable and tidy
when she dances should beware of a style
of hair dressing to which she is unac-
customed, and Of ornaments that are rot
safely fixed in the hair.
1t is quite a sign of the lower classes TO
dance vigorously nowadays. Rather. car
rying the matter to it's extreme liillit,
people at a fashionable ball dance as
though the whole thing was a wearisome
duty, to be got through with the least
possible expenditure of exertion. A sell
dunn.
On entering the ballroom the ladies of
Il party go first, with the gentlemen just
behind them. No longer 90 couples make
their debut arm in arm, as in earlier
times; and should there be hostess it is
correct for guests to greet her before
passing through the rooms.
A hostess generally stands at the en-
trance of a ballroom to receive her
guests. or at the top of the staircase in
| the event of the ball being held in an
upper story 1t is her DUTY to shake
| hands with all new arrivals, even though
she may not have met them previously.
| New arrivals are announced by name.
| and the lady will pass in and be greeted
| before her husband.
| Ladies should remember that it is not
etiquette to enter ballroom with any
wrap about their shoulders; those with
| delicate threats and chests should ar
range pretty high-necked bodice that
will afford sufficient protection: it must
also be mentioned that fans are never
hung from the waist now, as in former
years. as they are found to swing too
much in the way of other dancers
Authorities differ about the etiquette OF
the dance programme. it being current
| fashion both for the lady to retain it and
enter the engagement for herself. or for
the man to inscribe his name himself
Gentlemen might take note that, when a
lady seems unwilling to give up her en-
gagement card. they should not press the
point: for who knows what a pitiful tale
| of dSengagpd dances she may not hone
to conceal?
Mere beginners in the etiquette of the
| ballroom will, of cotirse, know that it is
not correct to dance too often with one
persoii.-Madame:
The Economy Of Some Women Sinful.
Poverty is a thing Of infinite variety
and human beings way of being poor
is very good index to his or her char
acter.
There is the poverty that gets new
dress every season and cannot afford t,
pay the dressmaker's bill; the poverty
that buys lace curtains and velvet car
pets, and borrows its books from the Cir
culating library; the poverty that puts
$40 worth of millinery on its head, but i:
too poor to buy ticket to a concert OF
a lecture; the poverty that wears Ola
monds, but cannot send child 10 s
kindergarten; the poverty that says te
| society, Take all | haye.' but cannO
give anything to the church: the poverty
that buys a cut-glass dish, but cannot af
| ford to take magazine; the poverty
that wears silks and sa1ins over ragged
underclothes; the poverty that rides il
it's carriage and pays starvation wages t.
the washerwoman; the poverty tina
gloats over it's bank account and canno
afford to take a vacation; the povcrt.
family provision bill in order to pay Cor it
The old saying, Poverty is no dis
grace, but it is very inconvenient,' il
only about half true, and most nf :h'
truth lies in the latter half of it. 1t il
always Every inconvenient," and it liza!
be very disgraceful. There is an honor
able poverty and dishonorable oac; ;
well-bred poverty and an ill-bred poverty
noble poverty and a mean poverty; :
an aristocratic poverty and vulgar pow
erty; wise poverty and stupid 10y
erty; a poverty that commands our 81
miration and respect and a poverty tia
temptS us to scorn and derlSion.
| We may not be able to escape Who'll!
from the thralls of poverty. but It IS en-
tirely in our power to say what form o
# we shall manifest. The meta.pl>ysl
clans tell us that poverty is disease
See that yours is not that disease OF tn
soul which clothes the body and the cut
ward life with the appearance OF wealth
while the spiritual nature is sloWi!
| stnryed: but choose rather mental ant
spiritual opulence, even though this b
associated with the eXternals OF povs,ty
In ceasing to be "disgraceful .povect.
loses most of its Inconvenience.
1t sounds paradoxical. but it is yer!
) true that economy is the cause OF ;
great deal of poverty. The economy O.
the rich is at the bottom of much o
the poverty of the poor
I do not know how economy ever so
into the list of virtues. Probably Poo
Richards Almanac, with its stingy, poor
house maxims, helped to put it there l
is very dubious sort of virtue, indeed
!: and cuts sorry figure alongside the rea
virtues, such as generosity. justice ant
charity. 1t is about as much of virtue
as is resignation. Most of the resigna
fion that parades itself before the worlt
ms Christian virtue is nothing but pur
laziness, and much of our boosted econ
omy is nothing but meanness--just plain
common meanness. Economy is a virtue
, only when practiced by people of Limited
means, or those in financial straits, ant
even such people must watch themselves
, closely. lest the virtue degenerate into ;
vice, for from economy to ayarce II j
. but q step, and d short one. ~ &.
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