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Show AS TO DANCING. From the New York Mall and Express. When Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller saw Fannie Ellsler caper upon a Boston stage both of them liked her, but even In their admiration they were not at one. "It Is poetry, Margaret," exclaimed tho suge of Con-!cord. Con-!cord. "Wrong! Waldo," exclaimed the lady, "It Is religion." A more violent divergence Is set forth in iho several dicta of "Old Bill" Sunday, ex-ballplayer and revlvallGt, and Dr. G. Stanley Stan-ley Hall, president of Clark university. According to the former "tho waltz is a hugging match set to muBlc." According Ac-cording to the latter "It is probable that man gets nearer his lost paradise when he is dancing than at any other time." Mr. Sunday says that the waltz is damnable." "The square dance," he believes, "Is too slow for the hot blood of the twentieth century?" "you must have something that will make tho hot blood rush through your veins." Not so, says Dr. Hall "The dance cadences the soul. If a person Is under a tense strain give him a slow dance like tho minuet; for one who Is Inactive a danco of more vapid movement should be prescribed." |