Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — Cutting a Figure. [ARTICLE]

Cutting a Figure.

It is strange, for instance, what egregious asses men and women will make of themselves in dancing the figure of the german. The young people who are selected as leaders appear to cudgel their brains' to invent or discover figures that are idiotic. Here is something observed at a large and fashionable german one night recently. The

dancers were harnessed together in silken ribbons, in groups of three abreast; on one side three ladies driven by a man, and on the other, three men driven by a lady. In this form to polka music they danced from one end of the room to the other. One can imagine how utterly absurd they looked, and yet the figure was considered very ton.— Neto York Star.