Low Standard Of Ball-room Morals

The Saratoga correspondent of tlu EvAston P'ist, describing a recent hall, says : " If there was little beauty una dorned tliere was a great deal of unadorned ugliness. Although uone of the dresses ' finished too soon ' - they nevcr do in these days of trams - quito a number ' began too late.' It lias geucrally been supposed that there a-o bounds to de colletces dresses ; but ladies of fashion do not seein to be inclined to draw the line anywhero. This stato of things may be all right and proper. It may be that thoy intend to revive the original costume of Adam and Eve. If eo, thcy must at the same uproot and destroy the tree of knowledge, otherwise the worlcl will be inclined to conderan such a want of costumo. With several ladies there was no waste of material, for economioal reasons undoubtedly, though (and what is a seeiuing contradictiou) to the oorsnge there was nothing hut waist 1 - [t is nót pleasaut to seo American women outsti'ipping tho Demi Monde. It s not oniy unpleasant but it is deciJed y sad and demoralizing. It is the eustom of society to speak slightipglv of ihe danseuse because oí hor short skirts. The pot shoukl bo careful how it calis the ketüe black, partioularly when tho kettle is not so very black. Extremes meet, and society moráis appear to bo neck or nothing ! Io this argument tho danseuse has a decided advantage - her dress is merely short,, that of the bon ton ia Jow ! Tho costume of the former is a matter of necessity, that of the latter a matter of pleasure. One is graoet'ul and the other is rZwgracoful.