HOW THEY WALTZ IN AMERICA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 310, 21 April 1877, Page 4

HOW THEY WALTZ IN AMERICA.

People may say that a waltz is a waltz, bat it is a mistake, as much as to say that a ; «Ing is a dog, awl waltzes are waltz« 3. Wit'i i one person it is the poetry of motion ; | with another person it is about as awkward | a performance as putting yourself at full speea and going the motion running tip stairs would be. A Kentucky girl is a natural waltsier, and does it with a charming chic and abandon. An < hio girl's waltzing is easy, graceful, and melodious. It she happens to come from Cincinnrifti and across the Rhine she swings dreamily round and round in the waltz." If she comes from Chicago, siie throws her hair back, jumps up and cracks her heek together, and carries off her astonished partner as though a Samson had struck him. and knocks him over all intervening obstacles in her mad career round the room. If she is from Indiana, she creeps clostly and timidly tip to her partner, as though she would like to get into his vest pocket, and melts away with ecstasy as the witching strains of the "Blue Danube," sweep through the hall. It she is from Missouri, she crooks her body in the iniddte like a door-hinge, takes her partner by the shoulder, and makes him miserable in trying to hop round her without treading on her jSo. 9 shoes. If she comes from Michigan, she astonishes her partner by now and then working in a to*;eh of the double shufll-*, or a bit of pigeon-wing, with the waltz step. And if she comes from Arkansas, she throws both a"ms rotmd his neck, ndb up her eves as she fiats away, and is heard to murmur. "Oh, hug me, John !"