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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
181
An
English
writer,
in
a
recent
work
published
on
etiquette,
speaks
of
waltzing
thus:--
"It
is
perhaps
useless
to
recommend
flat-foot
waltzing
in
this
country,
where
ladies
allow
themselves
to
be
almost
hugged
by
their
partners,
and
where
men
think
it
necessary
to
lift
a
lady
almost
off
the
ground,
but
I
am
persuaded
that
if
it
were
introduced,
the
outcry
against
the
impropriety
of
waltzing
would
soon
cease.
Nothing
can
be
more
delicate
than
the
way
in
which
a
German
holds
his
partner.
It
is
impossible
to
dance
on
the
flat
foot
unless
the
lady
and
gentleman
are
quite
free
of
one
another.
His
hand,
therefore,
goes
no
further
round
her
waist
than
to
the
hooks
and
eyes
of
her
dress,
hers,
no
higher
than
to
his
elbow.
Thus
danced,
the
waltz
is
smooth,
graceful,
and
delicate,
and
we
could
never
in
Germany
complain
of
our
daughter's
languishing
on
a
young
man's
shoulder.
On
the
other
hand,
nothing
is
more
graceless
and
absurd,
than
to
see
a
man
waltzing
on
the
tips
of
his
toes,
lifting
his
partner
off
the
ground,
or
twirling
round
and
round
with
her
like
the
figures
on
a
street
organ.
The
test
of
waltzing
in
time,
is
to
be
able
to
stamp
the
time
with
the
left
foot.
The
waltz
is
of
German
origin,
but
where
it
is
still
danced
in
Germany
in
the
original
manner,
(as,
for
instance,
among
the
peasants
of
the
Tyrol,)
it
is
a
very
different
dance.
It
is
there
very
slow
and
graceful;
the
feet
are
thrown
out
in
a
single
long
step,
which
Turveydrop,
I
presume,
would
call
a
jete.
After
a
few
turns,
the
partners
waltz
alone
in
the
same
step,
the
man
keeping
the
time
by
striking
together
his
iron-shod
heels,
until
with
a
shout
and
clapping
of
hands
he
again
clasps
his
partner
and
continues
in
the
same
slow
measure
with
her."
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