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The Origin Of Dancing

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Day
21
Month
July
Year
1871
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Public Domain
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Egypt claims to bo the inventor of dancing, as well as the oeience of geoinctry. One of the most fainous of their dances was the Astronomical dance, round n altar, whiob was supposed to reproent the sun, whilst the priests aroimd it were the individual planets ; their movo ïents were, as befittëd the sncred occaon, solemn and stately. In later and more civilized times, the government readingthe effect of public and seltiracticed dancing upon a people natur lly much givcn to liceutiousness and iin loiality, forbade the highor classes t( earn the art, aml perraitted persons o he lowest caste to take it np a.s a regula nd rccognizcd profession. ürace of posure of moveincnt was the chief end atjiiiii'd, and they danced to the sound of he harp, lyre, guitar, pipe, and taiubourne, and in the streets to the drum. Aciinlingto Wilkinson, a primitiva form of lic modern ballet, and especially the step )f the pirouette, delightod an Egypfian arty upwards of thrco thousand fivo ïundnd year ago. Their dreé8O8 were ransparent, and sometimos they appear to have danced entirely naked. The dance was often supiil'iiniii.d by gyinnasts, and among the inferior order of erformc-rs, tended toward a species of mntomine and dumb show. i il i ■-■■' Katie Field tells of an Eastorn man who was oommending the services of a young Philadelphian to a Chicago niorchant. " Ho comes of a very good family. His grondfathex was a ory distinguiahed man," suid tho liasturner. "Was her" replied Chicago. "That's of nu account with us. There's loss daddyisin here than in any part of the United States. What'a he hiinself ?" .Miss F. tliinks "daddyigm" is an inspiration and onght to go into tho coming dictionary of Amuricanisms. In Montana, whcre ladies sit (injuries and do all sorts of raan-y things, a man and his wife liaving to executea deed, tho wife was taken aside before tho aeknowledgmei t was ibftde, by a commissiuner, who, in tho usual form, asked, "Do you exocute t'iis deed froely, and without any foar or compulsión of your hushand ?" JVSX MlSSED IT.- "I once dreamed." i said Pat, "that I called upon tho i dcut, and ho axed mo wud I drink. J tould him I didn't care if I tuk a dj-op of punch. "Could or hot?" axcd the President. "Hot, yer exceloncy," said I ; and lic Btepped down in the kitchen fot some bilin water ; and, beforp he got li:i''k, I woke strato up ; and now it's distroBïing" mo that T didn't tale t could."

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Michigan Argus