At a Dance.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11, 17 March 1906, Page 54

At a Dance.

THINGS TO REMEMBER IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY YOURSELF.

If you are a dancer, and going to a ball, never wear a long dress. It may be graceful and becoming but it will wind about your own feet, get round your partner’s legs, and become soiled, torn and unsightly in half.an hour. Wear a dress that just; clears the ground, and be particular about your shoes and stockings. If your dress;is white,- white; satin shoes and white silk, or open-work thread stockings look the best. It .is essential, of course, that these tit well, and are perfectly clean and fresh. It is not a difficult thing for a girl to cover her own shoes with a cutting of her dress, and if she is only patient enough to learn to do this she may be always correctly and smartly shod, wearing blue shoes with a blue dress, red with red, and green with green. The art of recovering shoes is so easily acquired that it is extraordinary that every woman who has to consider ways and means does not learn to do it. Never arrive at a dance the moment you are asked, but don’t go to the other extreme and arrive too late, or the men you want to dance with will have made engagements for the whole evening, and you will be left stranded. If a young man is going to a dance, let him go determined to be amiable, otherwise lie had far better have declined his invitation in the first instance. If a man gets very hot dancing he

ought always to carry an extra collar t* change during the evening. A man looks so ill-dressed and dissipated in a limp collar. A man should never buy cheap gloves to wear at a dance. They tit badly, split, and look horrid; and are far dearer than a more Expensive article, as they can only be worn once; and the' good ones clean and clean again. If you 'happen to find yourself at a dance where you know few people, and where you are somewhat neglected, doh’t sit with a cross, gloomy countenance. A man should never joke about one lady present to another unless the woman he is speaking to is one of his own relations, for frightful complications have often ensued from doing this thoughtlessly. If a young man is invited to a children’s party where there is to be conjuring, or a dance, let him. remember he is not asked for his own delectation, but for that of the children. And no one assisting at a children’s party ought to usurp attention, or arrange to dance with his own partner, or to pose to the gallery, by showing off how he amuses the children. If he goes, he goes for one object only, and that is to devote himself to the children. If a girl gets very hot when dancing she should provide herself with a few leaves of papier poudre. A five-minute retirement to the cloakroom to gently rub her face with one of these will immediately improve her personal appearance. It is well at the same time to make sure that dress, hair, etc., are all trim and tidy, for dancing is apt to make even the tidiest look a little dishevelled.