Wehman Bros.' Book on The Way to Dance

# WEHMAN BROS.' CATALOG OF INSTRUCTIONAL WORKS

This composite publication from Wehman Bros. (New York) comprises three practical instructional works priced at ten cents each: a dancing manual, a collection of parlor amusements, and a book of magic and entertainment.

The Way to Dance teaches ballroom dancing to self-instruction, beginning with an introduction on ball-room etiquette (proper conduct with partners, floor-manager protocol, conversation while dancing, and dress requirements) before progressing to five fundamental foot positions and their execution. Instruction emphasizes grace and dignified movement over mechanical precision.

Book of Fun, Magic and Mystery anthologizes parlor entertainments: twenty-one puzzles and problems; card tricks including "The Slipped Card" and various revealing methods; fortune-telling techniques (tea-cup reading, dice augury); sixty-three comic verses; fourteen flirtation methods; forty amusing chemical experiments (artificial lightning, freezing water by fire); fifty-two money-making recipes (soap, ink, polish, dye manufacture); humor pieces titled "Boy Lost" and "Female Stratagem"; seventy-one toasts; and forty-three epitaphs, including verse epitaphs for "Mary Mack" and "Micky Lynch."