A return to grace, and cha-cha-cha
It’s about time kids started learning manners– especially around here. Don’t get me started on the little punks that leave their trash on the tables at restaurants. How about the kids that whine everytime mommy doesn’t buy them what they want? How about the ones that think it’s “cool” to start fights everywhere they go?
At the Belmont Country Club in Ashburn, 90 such couples waltzed like bumper cars Wednesday night and showcased their newly acquired skills of pinning boutonnieres and making small talk at the second annual winter ball for the Belmont chapter of the National League of Junior Cotillions, a program set up to teach ballroom dancing and etiquette to the nation’s rising teenagers.
This program is about teaching young people “to treat others with honor, dignity and respect,” said Anne Colvin Winters, who co-founded the National League of Junior Cotillions in 1978.
Chivalry needs to make a come back.
“There’s nothing old-fashioned about being kind and considerate,” Winters said.
No one ever loses anything when they learn manners, but I know from personal experience that it’s the little details that set gentlemen apart– full-windsor knots, cufflinks, well made suits, charm, grace… the list goes on and on.
And ladies, man oh man. There is nothing more beautiful than a lady that knows how to carry herself. Thanks, Sukhi.
Charles Kingsley once said:
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on this earth, or a man or woman left to say, I will redress that wrong, or spend my life in the attempt.
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