AMERICAN WALTZING.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 43, 18 July 1877, Page 2

AMERICAN WALTZING.

People may say that a waltz; is a waltz (comments an American contemporary), but it is a mistake— as much as to say a dog is a dog ; for there, are dogs, and dogs and waltzes and waltzes.. With ono person a waltz is a poetry of motion ; with, another person it is about as aw.kwarfi, a performance as putting yourself at full speed and going the motion of running. <> upstairs would be. A Kentucky girl TB f a natural waltzer, and she does it with IP 9 , , : charming chic and abandon. An, Ohio g^ girl's dancing is easy, graceful, and " melodious." If the girl happens to, come from Cincinnati, and across the. Chine, she swings dreamily round and round in the endless '! !Putch. Waltz,"If she comes from Chicago, she throws her hair back, jumps up and cracks her. heels together, and carries off her astonish* ed partner as though a stmooa had struck him, and knocks over all intervening obstacles in her mad career r<ound 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, aud wajtzes, away with ecstasy as the witching strains of the " Blue Danube. sw;eep 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 iv a touch of the double-shuffle, or a tit of pigeon wins, with the waltz step. And if she comes from Arkansas, she throws both arms around his neck, rolls up. her eyes as she floats away and is heard to murmur, "Oh, hug me, John !' ?