The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-19

other six alcuths the most deNzh1ful
featuEe. - the Writers -ataty. II cones
from the luueE circles Of s0rue II the fash
s1Dab}e Cities q the East that the waltz
s. u ~ placed on TIRE ntie ard thst
anyone Rao cares Ia take X down Ars8
pat II - music commits an uznard0us5la
society sin For Jhzt and otheT reasons.
sensible society ={lI hkely allow ,ne waltz
% continue r. vogue. There is no good
reason for abandoning t. unIess il Pc that
4 great many people wbo s1nd themselves
members u Four Hundreds know
nothing about dancing H. People who
dance the waltz viii ~ s}ow 20 SUFFER-
der g. simply because the miserable tad
dtsts have said Il must ~ surrendered.
bat they Will vote for any urvr3tten lax
that Will prevent those Who think they
know and "A 40 don't knoE anything about
she waltz from appearing on the floor.
while waltz music Is being played.
But such a law wlI never he popular.
Il would b. an insult 70 many guests.
and IL strictly enforced. the dancing floor
would BE- deserted too oftrss The Amer
can Society of Professors # Dancing
recognize THIS fact. and announce Enat the
waltz must 60. Taey SAY the waltz i
rauap. undiguified. improper aat con
dueive 80 Precipitation. There S no doubi
that the professors speak tha trGEa. and
Incidentally ig may be mentioned that tats
-8At& EttS- EfssfAa ~fif-A - NAAatAsAFs -"ff
thase learned professors who are sap
posed 20 teach the young Idea hoT 10 do
the waltz shoot ore professor insisted
that there are many people who get the
waltz inFo their head but never into their
feet.
1T II certain" says a society writer in
ihe East that Il these people 50 afflicted.
wattzed On their heads their movense2 MS
"a boat the door would be just IS graceful
IS AZ present and would attract no more
attention than they do Row Il would b
an 0dd&ty for time bat before long
those Who know how 10 waltz would ind
IL more preferable 70 collide Rith one head
than a whirlwind mixture OF feet, body
neck ard sharp elbows
The American professors say that the
Boston dip finds favor with them. and
thar they viii teach IT, For a time they
believe Il VIII meet with disfayor. but ~
the end they hop 20 force X into the
heads and have Il drop into the feet ~
The dancing class. Bat the American pro-
fessnrs do not represent the dancing
world and IL viii b. long
time before they drive the waltz cut =
existence and force in SIS piace the Dip.
which has about as much music and ro-
nance an IL IS Grover Cleveland mes
SAGE II Is not likely that society viii ac-
cept the dip.
after years % hard work they have
educated themselves" says this same 30
r3etv writer. ito accept the punishment
melted out 20 them by the people wha can
not waltz. but who appear on The dancing
floor with marvellous regularity. AZ this
late day they refuse 20 have the mode OF
punishment changed
The two-step has been popular ia this
clty for several years. Society gets a
great deal II pleasure ia dancing II.
Bur they enjoy the waltz. ard the pro-
grarurra as II now stands. waltz. tVo-step.
waltz. two-ssep. WI nu8 favor for years
- come L may he that the fwo-step Is
the favorite. but il Il certain that the
s. aItE VIII not cease 20 exist. the American
Society % Professors 81 Dancing ard
Fathers 81 the UnmusleaI p5p. notWith-
standing
Young society proposes 70 usher in the
fan dancing season on the evening az Oct.
with = dance ar the Queen Anne club
house. II viii - an affair AL worth at
tending Young society Is inclined 20 the
belief thar the coming ySinfer shouts nor
DE allowed - pass without an honest fffur;
am i,s p7rr n resolve other day~. when
there vas sufficient enterrs Inuant to sat-
isfy every body. Tha coming dance wfU
mark the beginning Of = series u fine
daucss.
- ovdlnE 20 the view York correspond
ent cf the FoSt-TntelHgercer Papa
Cobb Of EloGdike fame IS being wired
and al0s3 hack Ia tre ris metropolis. his
OH Fl-rssr3 friends are saoWerinE hiu
/ WITH 1li SORTS ~ h9uors. FohH according
to the cs-ree pendent. gets no vest hut IS
Kept constantly en- the e. Cobb arrived
in $ew YORK ahoge fw9 weeks ago an'
registered az the S1urtsvaHt house- Ir
less tb2u two hours he vas The ureF 81
g ha.f-a0zts newspaper men and the next
day hs sass himself ia an SORTS 81 ness
narev cartoons Harvard men and others
with tne college ring thotlt them besieEesl
him Tor inform atiou Ard bis visitors
we're nor cordna3 So the male population
az NeR YORK Foolish young women. with
"a streak ~ romance pernestlng their sys-
TENS paid cobb cabs. wanted him % en-
n,ox them and take fren back WITH hiEn
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