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Show Wo Bocomo Dignified Too A Soon. V How soon people's "daueingdnyH" m are over. Middlo age dosen't dance. r' 1 wns at a Long Branch hotel Inst I summer nnd saw an evening "hop." It watt enjoyed mostly by children. Tho elders looked on, butdidnodnnc- ing, Somooftho "eldors" werooulto 1 young. I saw among them thoso I who, eight or nino yonrs before, used to bo very active on foot in thnt samo parlor. Hut they dnnco no more. It is too puerile. They look on a lit. tlo while nnd walk about wearily. Thoy seemed to havo entered on that, phnso of lifo when everything bores moro or less. I saw ladies walking with their husbands up und down tho corridor. Somo waddled. Some wcro too fat to dance. Soino hud lost en- I tirely tlio elastic muscle of childhood, I though not forty. These, of course. 1 wero to dignified to dance. At least 1 they scorned to consider this inability I to dance ns dignity. Perhaps it is. I I saw oven young men of twenty-live, I who dnnced mightily nt eighteen, 8 among tho ranks of thoso who hud grown nbovo dnneingtJ thinkwo R enter on the heavy, dignified, sit B down phnso ot life much too soon. Prentice Mulford. |