Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-11-30

fact, a celebrity For she was Miss
AS She rode in 1t a brisk canter in
The Superbly fitting habit which seem
ed an outer skin Of the little supple
figure and followed By the correctly
clad groom mounted ON a horse as
good as that ot his mistress, the hats
of the men flew of, and the eye
glasses Of the women went up as
their owners cooked another way
But To smiles or frownS, pleasant
words or icy stares, Fiuetta returned
the same cool, good,humored smile
and flash Of the white teeth and black
eyes,
Every now and then London has n
nj. Sometimes ii takes the shape of
hero worship, and down the mob
gueS on their knees TO some celebrity.
male or female; mt others it goes
black in the fact with hooting' and
mud,finging at some object which it
has suddenly taken into its head to
hate.
Al present ali Loudou-an fashion
able male l4ondou-waS in ats OF adj
miration for Finetta, and. strange to
say, no long ago she had been play
ing With other girls in the alely in
which her fathers small coal store
was situated, and was perfectly happy
with her skippingrope and hop scotch,
and more than perfectly happy when
the organization came around with
that popular instrument.
Her mother wanted her 10 so TO
school, or ri any rate to keep her in
The green grocer's shop, which was
run in connection With the cualstorA;
but Finetta-her name AT that time
was Sarah Ann, by the way declined
to SO to school, and confined her min.
istration in the shop to stealing
oranges and apples Her mother al.
tcnately beat her, her father dcclar-
ed with emphatic and descriptive Ian
guage that she would como 10 no
good; and Sarah Ann. taking the
Scolding and the beating and prophe-
cies of II bad end with infinite good
humor went on playing hop-scotch
and dancing round the organ quite
happy in her ragged skirt and her
lNack tangled hal and almost as
black face and hands,
But the gods, they say, delight in
surprises, and one day an individual
happened to come down that alley
who was fated to have an immense
influence on Sarah AIMS career.
He was well-llnown dancing mas
ter, a first rate one; man whose
whole life had been devoted to his art
and nothing else.
He saw the group of girls dancing
round the organ, stood and watched
them with an absent, reflective smile
and suddenly his face lighted up and
his eyes frightened. Sarah Ann had
run out of the green-grocer's shop
with an orange she had stolen, ana, as
she tore off the peel with her white
teeth, set to dancing with the rest
The dancing master drew aside a
/ little and kept his eyes ON the dark
j angular girl, whose dark orbs glanced
under the excitement of her dance
which, unlike that of her companions
was in perfect time with the music :"
and fun of grace which was natural
as young Indians,
NJ Fahcr-he was Frenchman
went up to her.
Are YOU fiona of dancing?" he ask,
ed
Am /? Amt |? she retorted,
flashing her teeth upon him. why
OF course ! am-who aint?"
SO am | /" he said. would You ike
TO learn 20 properly"
Learn? | can dance already" she
returned, with a toss of her head
All, YOU think So" he said smiling,
with kind Of gOod-natured pity. He
locked round; the alley was empty ex-
cepdng for the children, and he sign
ed TO the organ-man to 20 on playing,
and as he played the thin, dapper lit
/ tie FrenChman began to dance. We
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world has seen him and knows what
is meant when It is said that II was
NJ, Faber at his best
He seemed TO be made OF springs
India rubber springs; to be as light "a
thistledown; to tread afloat on the air
and TO possess the wind and speed Of
. deryish
The black-eyed slip of girl watched
him in breathless amazcment and
delight; and when he had finished
and came on his toe-points as If he
had just loatcd from the grimy house.
| tops she uttered a LONG sigh Of envy
aud admiration
Il couldn't do that" she said look,
ing at him sullenly but wistfully.
No; not yet" he said And why,
my child? Because YOU have not been
taught One does not know how to
dance til one learns Would YOU like
Ia learn"
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