The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

HHE National Dancing Masters as- \SD soeiation now ia session at the
 Hotel Brunswick. in New York city, has declared war on the exhilarating twostep. This popular dance has been stigmatized a "mongrel makeshifte by the wise terpsichorean professors and they are casting about for a suitable success sor One of the problems of the convention will be to amend the programme by in- troducing a schottiseh with new step The association will call the attention of the public to the demoralizing influence of the twostep and ask that 1t be banfsh- ed by the world of society. The waltz has also come in for some hard knocks from the dancing masters.
 Continuing the subject. the French peo- pie have discovered the reason for the popularity of the cakewalk in their coun try The walk" is French in origin. In a recent interview a famous cakewalker in Paris stated that some of the French refugees from the court of Marie Antoin- ette introduced the minuet into New Or leans about the time O. the revolution. The native imitation of the stately dance developed Into the modern cakewalk.
 The flying automobile Is one of the fads of modern life that fair woman has not yet sufficiently mastered to give her that calm. serene boise when riding in one of the vehicles, that she. so much af- fects It Is said that Miss Alice Eoose welt is a skillful automobilist and has plenty of nerve but then she has in- herited such traits from her strenuous parent Most women look as if they would prefer being almost any where else when they are seated in one of the big killers" and flying down the street with chance for a smashup every few minutes. Com menting on this subject an exchange says:
 And the automobile has come in as if to satirize, to lampoon the whole idea of women's annexation to the great speed-rush of the time. Did you ever see woman who looked at home on an au- tomobile? Did you ever see one who was not more or less distressed on one-even if she were trying hard to look radantly happy? Thousands of women are ''crazy over automobiles" Of course they are. They are crazy over anything that Is the fashion. But they are not at home and comfortable in all the fashions, and they are not at home in automobiling.
 If they are dressed In their ordinary garments, look at them as they try to hold on to their hats, and to keep their skirts from nyingl If they are dressed in automobile clothes, note the intensity of their consciousness that they are guys! And beyond the inconveniences and the sense of ugliness, there Is in them the innate sense that God did not make them to be whirled through the world at this vertiglnous rate, but meant them to be calm and quiet--a gentle pace. as we'll as an unstrenuous voice. being an excellent thing in woman"
 A few days ago the first monument ever erected to negro slaves in the United States was dedicated at Harrington. R. I. The shaft is to commemorate the negro slaves who were owned in that state when slavery was abolished. New port and Bristol were great slave marts III tne COlOnlai udyS lHe iuOHuuielil iS built of white and black marble to signify the interdependence of the white and black races.
 A certain class of philosophers are fond of decrying the wife of today for her scant knowledge of the culinary art, In great many towns there is painful ignorance among wives in the smart set of the wonderful possibilities of an egg omelette or the essential requisites of good cup of coffee. In Chicago at least this does not apply. During the strike of the cooks and walters now going on in that city the housewives are given an op- portunity to show what they are capable of The Inter-ocean says:
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