Programme . e a different language, costume, etc., have also their ownpeculiar local dances, which, like their wines, fine arts, relics, saints,and sausages, can only be really relished on the spots themselves. The dances of the better classes of Spaniards in private life are muchthe same as in other parts of Europe, nor is either sex particularly dis-tinguished by grace in this amusement, to which both are much ad-dicted. It is not, however, yet thought to be a proof of bon ton to danceas badly as possible, and with the greatest appearance of bore, thatappanage of the so-called gay world. The
Programme . e a different language, costume, etc., have also their ownpeculiar local dances, which, like their wines, fine arts, relics, saints,and sausages, can only be really relished on the spots themselves. The dances of the better classes of Spaniards in private life are muchthe same as in other parts of Europe, nor is either sex particularly dis-tinguished by grace in this amusement, to which both are much ad-dicted. It is not, however, yet thought to be a proof of bon ton to danceas badly as possible, and with the greatest appearance of bore, thatappanage of the so-called gay world. These dances, as everythingnational is excluded, are without a particle of interest to any one exceptthe performers. An extempore ball, which might be called a carpet- JUST ACROSS THE STREET HUBBELL & McGOWANS Back Bays Busiest Drug Store Everything that is fore-most in (irug store merchan-dise at prices that meetthe lowest competition. Copies of History of SymphonyOrchestra on sale at our newsstand, $ Block of Brunswick Hold MILLINERY SALE Many of her Models have been placed in her$ Department $ Gil dance, if there were any, forms the common conclusion of a winterstertulia, or social meetings, at which no great attention is paid eitherto music, costume, or Mr. Gunter. Here English country dances,-French quadrilles, and German waltzes are the order of the night;everything Spanish being excluded, except the plentiful want of goodfiddling, lighting, dressing, and eating, which never distresses thecompany, for the frugal, temperate, and easily pleased Spaniard enterswith school-boy heart and soul into the reality of any holiday, which,being joy sufficient of itself, lacks no artificial allurement. Dancing at all is a novelty among Spanish ladies, which was intro-duced with the Bourbons. As among the Romans and Moors, it wasbefore thought undignified. Performers were hired to amuse theinmates of the Christian harem; to mix and change hands with menwas not to be thought o
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