WOMAN’S WALTZING WAYS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 156, 3 December 1874, Page 3

WOMAN’S WALTZING WAYS.

A Put-in-Bay correspondent of the Cincinnati Times furnishes the following lively description of the style in which girls from different States and localities waltz, as shown by the hops at that pleasant resort: “ People may say that a waltz is a waltz, but it is a mistake, as much as to say that a dog is a dog, for there are dogs and dogs, and their are waltzes and waltzes. With one person it is the poetry of motion ; with another it is about as awkward a performance as putting yourself upon a level and going through the motion of running up-stairs would be. A Kentucky girl is a natural waltzcr, and she does it with a charming chic and abandon. An Ohio girl’s waltz is easy, graceful, and ‘melodious.’ If she happens to come from Cincinnati, and across the Rhine, she swings dreamily round and round in the endless ‘ Butch waltz. ’ If she comes from Chicago, she throws her hair back, jumps up and cracks her heels together, and carries off her astonished partner as though a simoom had struck him, and knocks over all intervening obstacles in her mad career around the room. If she is from Indiana, she creeps closely and timidly up to her partner, as though she would like to get into his vest pocket, and melts away with ecstacy as the witching strains of the ‘ Blue Bannbe ’ sweep through the hall. If she is from Missouri, she crooks her body in the middle like a door-hinge, takes her partner by the shoulders, and makes him miserable in trying to hop around her without treading on her No. 9 shoes. If she comes from Michigan, she astonishes her partner by now and then working in a touch of the double shuffle, or a bit of pigeon wing, with the waltz step ; and if she comes from Arkansas, she throws both arms round his neck, rolls up her eyes as she floats away, and is heard to murmur, Oh, hug me, John! ”