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Besides it cost the lads £60." What this reverend complainer would have thought of the multitudinous exhibitions of masculine collegiate skirt-dancing of the present day is impossible to fathom. There were circuses also in Connecticut. "Mr. Pool The first American Equestrian has erected a Menage at considerable Expence with seats Convenient. Mr.
Are there not other women of an inferior breed specially fashioned by Providence for the doing of such slavish tasks? They have no more bothers of any kind. They are free to lead the higher life. What I am waiting for is a glimpse of the higher life. One of them, it is true, has taken up the violin. Another of them is devoting her emancipation to poker work. A third is learning skirt-dancing.
"Together with the latest skirt-dancing girl, and the last female society-detective, with the blushing honours of the witness-box thick upon her," suggested Jack Meredith. "Yes," muttered Guy. He turned with a sort of simple wonder, and looked at Meredith curiously. He had never been understood so quickly before.
Aldous declared he didn't dance, and she wouldn't have a word of it. And presently she got to all her tricks, skirt-dancing and the rest of it and of course the evening went like smoke." Marcella's eyes, unusually wide open, were somewhat intently fixed on the speaker. "And Mr. Raeburn liked it?" she asked in a tone that sounded incredulous. "Didn't he just?
Though to me the question is made easy, for Sir Jasper would never hear of cricket for his daughters, scarcely of hunting, and we have taken away Valetta and Primrose from the dancing-classes since skirt-dancing has come in; but I fear Val thinks it hard." "Such things puzzle my sisters at Vale Leston.
"D'yer remember 'er dancing?" "I have seen her flinging her petticoats about outside the shop, when the copper wasn't by, if that's what you mean," I says. "That's what I mean," he answers. "That's all the rage now, 'skirt-dancing' they calls it. She's a-coming out at the Oxford to-morrow. It's 'er I'm waiting for. She's a-coming on, I tell you she is," he says.
A brutal suggestion. It sounds brutal, but perhaps woman was not intended to live free from all bothers. Perhaps even the higher life the skirt-dancing and the poker work has its bothers. Perhaps woman was intended to take her share of the world's work of the world's bothers. Why I hate Heroes. When I was younger, reading the popular novel used to make me sad. I find it vexes others also.
You can do this kind of work apparently even when you are bothered with a home. It is the skirt-dancing and the poker work that cannot brook rivalry. The modern woman has begun to find children a nuisance; they interfere with her development.
Our own step-dancing remains popular, and for a while the hybrid skirt-dancing triumphed, chiefly because of the genius of Kate Vaughan and talent of her successors, one of whom, Katie Seymour, worked out a clever individual compound of styles.
Din! they pressed their foreheads to the ground with a shout of Bou! and suddenly rose and decamped. Other nights other services, and the hysterical worship sometimes embraces a sort of serpentine skirt-dancing with frenzied twirling. There was no blood from the chief's wounds, but the performance does not seem to me to be jugglery. It seems rather akin to hypnotism.
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