14 JUNE 1913, Page 17

ON WALTZING.

"While arts improve in this aspiring age, Peers mount the coach-box, heroes tread the stage, And waltzing females with unblushing face Disdain to dance but in a man's embrace. All arts improve, but modesty is dead, And truth and virtue with our bullion fled."

These lines, written by Sheridan in 1807, express the view once held of the waltz. Nowadays we regret to see our daughters as wall-flowers, and not thus engaged.—I am,