London Dancing

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 6, 24 June 1884, Page 3

London Dancing

.What a wild scamper is the last " u J hew yalae. . ihe various coupes dash and tear through it, aad after two or -••■■"■three rounds conie to n breathless, stop, scarlet and gasping- for bieath. There are . b.ut few who can dance a ' '(juick valse with truegrace : and those tew do not always succeed in findina: B '. ' congenial partners, ibe consequenee . .js a scene- of wild confusion that, to 1 'au uninitiated onlooker, must savor of • bedlam. A- few couples still practice tbe " chandelier crawl," circiipg slowly round aud round beneath a ~ "group ot lights with a languid , y rhythm, and getting heartily detested by the rushing couples in whose way they get. Apropos of the French wofd, I may mention that it is now highly unfashionable in London to . epeak or write the word in its Englii-h __ Form, "waltz." The cotillion reijrns, 'especially, in the houses of those hostesses who like to find themselves ■a me .modicum of fame by the beauty and costliness of their cotillion gifts. .'■; Such a height has this sort.of an adver- .-. - tisemfcnt of one's wealth and generosity now reached that an unwritten law ha« poaia m ( ; force. in the best ' 'circles, by wbich it i:; enacted thai only flowers n»ay be given in tbe condition,, and that costly gifts shall ' - comeunder the csteg-ory of " vulgar shQw/'-r-New Y'ork "Star.