The San Francisco call., 1910-07-16

mo YOU desire visible manifesto
] ton of your soul throbs? Are you
- too fat, or perchance, too thin?
Have you a suspicion that you are be-
coming muscle bound" and stiff in
your joints? Do you think you might
be more sinuously graceful and more
insinuatingly alluring? Do you want
to express with all the physical energy
of your being your appreciation OF the
spring, the summer. the seasons gen
orally, things musical from Gounod TO
ragtime, the home coming of your true
love-, your rage with existing condi-
tions-anythins. everything? Or do
you seek for a parlor trick? Do you
want to be pioneer in the latest fad =?
There can be but one answer to these
varying wants. You must dance
Not the common or garden variety
of waltz or twostep. or even the ener-
getic, hypnotic barn dance. No. but
the real thing-not of necessity classi-
cal, but more omprehensively. esthetic-
Professionals may no longer have a
monopoly of the stellar roles OF terp-
sichorean soloists Every one who is
not incapacitated physically Is going to
have a try at it. 1t will be more per-
meating than the fad for reducing flesh
| and quite as strenuous. Young women
who have not quite forgotten the
| fancy dances" of their school days are
said to be practicing vigorously in pri-
| vate in order to get in trim for the
new things to be sprung little later.
| San Francisco has done something of
| these esthetic gambolings in the dances
of the kirmess and simpler forms were
| introduced in Professor Napoleon"
but there is some little deliberation
| about going in for il vigorously here.
| New York Boston, Chicago even.
have their smart sets and other sets
practicing ''one. two. three. tum-ti. tum,
hop, turn, skip. sli-i-i-de, six, seven,
eight, turn again." but here we are
waiting. Why? Surely not from lack
| of ability, for Isadora Duncan and
| Maud Allan hail. respectively. from
North Beach and the Mission, and they
| could not have cornered all the city
| grace and inspirational expression. Lit
/
of the artist, who has never yet ap-
peared professionally, will follow In
their footsteps. 1 believe, and there are
| several girls well known socially who
/ can make the most bored OF audiences
sit up and take notice when they whir
| into the center of the stage.
But soon the glidings, gyratings
| skippings, pirouettings, graceful OF
| clumsy, pleasing or horrifying. will
begin. Two or three of San Fran
cisco's most exclusive dancing teacher:
| are in the east studying the estheticisn
i of their art and with the winter season
| will commence the real work. Thert
| are going TO be a great many awfu
results beyond doubt, but it is goins
to be amusing and every one will have
unbounded confidence in her own grace
and skill.
i declare that 1T is the most divertins
thing they have done for years. There
/ is the delight of dressing more or les:
/ sensibly and comfortably-you can no
i dance in a thoroughly modern pair o.
| stays / believe. You can give fre'
play to your muscles with the accom-
panying rhythm of music. You car
1 laugh at your own mistakes if you have
4 a sufficient sense of humor. You car
always be amused at the failure of an
other to do as we'll as you do. Youl
sluggish circulation and lazy lungs will
| be stirred up in way that will make
| you feel better, no matter how well yot
feel The exercises will make you bet
fer looking every minute, and above al