DANCING

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 998, 12 November 1881, Page 3

DANCING

Dancing cannot yet be considered as an exact science, nor is it (to judge from the styles in vogue at public balls) governed by laws, which, like those of the Medes and Persians, never change. Take for instance the various methods employed by those who indulge in the giddy yet facinating waltz. In one case the gentleman contents himself by touching the tips of the ladys’ fingers and a solitary button on the back of her dress. This, we suppose, may be termed the correct esthetic idea. In another instance, where, perhaps, the parties understand one another a little better, the male of the species places his hands firmly on the female’s back, and both go round the room with a look of ineffable contentment. Yet another mode, and this where the performers understand one another ever more amicably, the gentleman takes the lady’s six-and-a-quarter gloved hand in his own larger paw, aud comfortably deposits both on the left shoulder. This fashion is greatly in vogue. Last of all comes what may be described as the true lover’s knot. Each partner affectionately clasps the other’s waist, and, “ the W'orld forgetting ” but certainly not “by the world forgot,” sail round the room to the admiration of some beholders and the envy of others. Variety is so charming that we should be sorry io see the day when any one of these styles of waltzing is made compulsory.—Wanganui Het aid.