Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-11-28


the other for graduates of the Wash
ington Irving high school at Irvington,
IN. Y. Considerable enthusiasm is
aroused among the students by the in
PRODUCTION of the English game, lawn
hockey. Miss Constance AppIebee of
England is organizing teams and
coaching them. AS yet no regular
ground has been laid out, but the ath-
Iletic association hopes soon to have a
field of close turf, such as is really
needed, if the game is played to best
advantage.
The college orchestra seems to
promise excellent work this year. 1t
has now the full number OF strings;
there are eight violins, six second v'o-
/ Inns, two viOlas, two 'cellos, one double
bass, two flutes, one clarinet One or
| two other wind instruments may be
added, and since the interest in the
orchestra seems to be great, Prof
Cow hopes in time to obtain the full
complement Of instruments for a
small orchestra. The orchestra is
now studying Mozart's G. minor SYM
phony, and expects later in the year
to take up the Schubert Unfinished"
/ in Egypt.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, who returned
the first of September from over a
years travel in Europe, Egypt and
Palestine, was much and sadly inn
pressed by the low state, mentally,
morally and physically, in which she
found the Egyptian women. The filth
in which they lived, apparently know
ing no better, the slayish subsection
spent in Egypt, and from having had
but little interest in foreign missions,
Mrs. Stanford now feels that mission
aries alone can help these women to
raise themselves, and she has returned
converted to foreign missions, hav.
ing viewed the work done for the ma
tiveS. She also much admired the
work done by the government schools
and the interest felt in America on the
part Of the pupils, and was astonished
to find how much they knew about it,
Progress in Bulgaria.
Bulgarian women have just held
their first national congress, q soCi
eties being represented at the meeting
at Sofia, when they organized d feder.
ation for the intellectual and moral
Education Of women and the improve
ment of their condition" Among sub.
jects brought up for debate were the
industrial condition of Bulgarian wo
men, their education and their atti
tude toward the international move
m@nt for peace Resolutions were
adopted asking that women be ad
mitted to the special high schools OF
Bulgaria. that a professional school
for women be founded and supported
by government, that public schools for
girls shall be conducted as those for
boys are, with the same studies, etc
that women be admitted to examina
lions in pharmacy and be made eligi
bic as assistant chemists in drug
stores; petitiOned the municipal coun
Gil of Sofia chat the brOthel now
building be changed TO reformatory,
and voted that the wOman's rights fed
GRAFTON of Bulgaria should show its
sympathy with the international peace
movement by showing courtesy to the
women delegates during the festival
of the international peace league, to
be held in May, 1902.
American Women Can Dance.
AS was to be expected, the invidious
remarks on American dancing by Eng
lish dancing masters and their bust
ness journals have been met by plump
! contradictions and scornful counter
criticism. American women, being
questioned at watering places by inter
ested reporters, declare one and all
| that, as every one knows, English wo-
men as rule are more clumsy with
both feet and hands; that as a general
thing they are not sent to dancing
school as young as Americans are;
that they DO not carry themselves
gracefully as a rule; that they do not
enter society as early as the Ameri-
cans do, and therefore are not as easy
in their manners, One Narragansett
belle is credited with saying
'The American girl is undoubtedly a
better dancer than her English or CON
tinental sister. The English girl
never reverses; she is clumsy, and
her arms are held up in such a way
as to accentuate her natural angular
ity, the usual opinion of the English
wOman's plumpness Notwithstanding
The English woman is at her best
when she is a matron, and then she Is
leo old and stiff to make a pleasing
figure on the ballroom floor. Contrast
the 1.-the. supple, graceful New York
or southern girl who lends her mind
and body to the delicious poetry Of
motion. 1t would be perhaps unwo-
rlanly to dwell at length on the rela-
tive size Of feet, but the American We
man who daintily picks up her fluffy
train and steps upon the floor is never
about her pedal extremi.
ties"
The professional dancers and dane |
ing masters all tell the same story |
What seems to have been the most fr- |
ritating in the English animadversions |
is the accusation of hopping" To /
be told that either the American man |
or woman hops" obnoxious wordD |
is not to be borne. The American wo- |
man glides through the waltz, she /
would no sooner hop than romp
through it. Poetry OF motion is what
she studies and what she usually
achieves. William Pitt Rivers,
prominent member of the dancing
masters association in this country !
saws. ssrTbprp ora rnoro faooborS ~ !