The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
DANC|NG'S FINE AID.
PittSburg Woman Describes the
Value of Beautiful Thoughts.
SAYS SOUL MUST BE REACHED

Miss Margaret Thuma Tells National
Dance Experts Why Lofty Ideas Are
Pillars of Exquisite Daneing-Quips
of Skeptie From ST. Joseph, Mo.
Beautiful thoughts! These are the
pillars of exquisite dancing. One must
possess them before one can properly
Merry Widow" waltz or even buck
and wing. This sweet truth was gray
en- the other day In the minds of the
delegates to the third session of the
tWenty-ffth annual convention Of the
National Association of Dancing Mas
tiers which was held in Chicago. Miss
Margaret Thuma u dancing instructor
well known in Pittsburg, was the lee
turer She soon proved that the city
of smoke is the core of things aesthet-
tc, She drilled her fellows in ways of
dancing instruction that few ever
dreamed of before. Miss Thuma main
tanned first and foremost that one must
entertain beautiful thoughts before one
can do beautiful dances. Then she told
them how to have ornate ideas.
Miss Thuma, arrayed in becoming
and close fitting black, stood before
her auditors In a position statuesque.
Her arms slowly and majeStically were
lifted upward until the limp fingers
touched above her pompadour. She
calls 1t mental circle" Her eyelids
closed dreamily, and in musical ac-
cents she delivered her tenet from
Pittsburg.
ITO dance in way that is lovely
and harmonious one must reach the
SOUL" she said. THE soul responds
with its flow of personal magnetism.
and IT is then registered at the brain.
which is. as you must understand. the
seat of all intelligence"
How truer murmured several fem
mime hearers.
Then the mind, or as l might say,
the mental force, gives out this soul
feeling" continued Miss Thuma in
softer tones. when this has been
done we will have completed the true
harmony of the soul"
isn't 1t lOvely?" whispered a slender
Great said the man. who repre-
sented st. Joseph, Mo.
Miss Thuma, as If in heavenly ran
ture, went on:
Force generates different elements
In man. Mental force is related to the
mind. All spiritual force is related to
the heart. But remember. life force
Is the inner atmosphere of ourselves.
When we have fully cultivated the
soul we multiply personal magnetism.
although l prefer to call it soul mag
netism."
ut must be a help in barn dance"
muttered the man from st. Joseph Mo.
Il have one line of thought which
call a Vision In a Garden Fair" said
Miss Thuma. all Obvious. "One NAV
imagine one is meeting Apollo in a
garden of Eden or one may picture the
tete-a-tete of Romeo and Juliet She
Is In balcony. we may coniure. and
he calls to her. She is appraised of his
presence here. Then 1t is his heart to
hers and finally his lips to hers"
Il wonder if Missouri would stand
for It," said the man from st. Joseph.
Il have still other modes of thought
which must be absorbed bv the
dancer" said Miss Thuma. There is
the Vision Of the Accursed,' in which
the reviled one is cropping onward, on
ward In Stygian darkness. Then there
is the Vision of the Graces a kaleido-
scope Of fitting blending goddesses.
with garlands intwined. All this, nv
friends. will tend to give you complete
control of the centers mental, physical
and emotional, and finally you will
attained the true grace of mind"
ter, refined and delicate pat.