The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-24
MARIA DANCED BEST OF ALL
IRE FEVER WADE MEN BlLD.
BUT HER FEET COULD FLY.
YEN uaaees - Chlldrens tla aSelety
Wsaldnt Have neeR Just Night e
MARIA Hadn't Danced -Iler Heavy
Heart LlEhtened BY Teachers tact.

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MARIA Hadn't Danced -lSer Heavy
Heart IAEhtened ~ rcaeheF'a TACT.
Maria Macapa was In sour h,smOr
yesterday afternoon She IL tho little
girl with the shaver head who ROes 20
tho Mott street industrial school 81 the
Childrens Aid Society. She was 10 dance
with the other girls Of all the other Chi
dFun's Aid schools In tho May festival az
tlls Italian branch on Worth street.
Yet Maria Macapa was bald. When
the Jewish children from the Fast Side
school aud the Bohemian girls from tho
Jones Memorial school saw Maria stand
ing in the schOOlroom az the other end
of the auditorium. which was used ~ q
dressing room by all the dancers u the
folk dances. they mOued at her and
snickered Some Of them whispered
Badly when Miss Sim. the teacher Of
the dances. could not hear
Maria Macnpa had the fever not very
long , She fought with IL for twenty
days in a back room % the third story
OF a tenement ON Bleocksr street Before
she had tho fever she had been one Of the
first Of all the Italian girls in the Mott
street school. FIRST in the dancing She
had practioed that Danish Shoemaker
Dance the teacher showed until her feet
tapped the hoor a. lightly a. a cats.
In anticipation Of the May festival Of thu
folk dances set for yesterday afternoon
Maria Madcapa's mother had promised
her a new white dress and black dancing
slippers
Then the fever had come and when Il
vent Marias head was like the knob on
the sugar bowl There was no white
dress, no dARcing slippers; tho medicines
had cost too much. Only little Maria
Macapa, bald. but with the tiny tWinkling
feet from which the fever had stolen none
Of their craft. Her teacher had told
Maria tO come 20 tho festival any way.
for she was the best dancer in ali the
school
Badly whispered a little Russian
kindergartner a. the class Of very small
pupils 81 the Worth street Italian school
filed into tho auditorium. where all thu
teachers and the other folks from Up
town sat. II waa the -klnderpOlka- that
these very small scholars danced merry
hop and skip sort Of a step which tho
kindergartnerr pounded out to the time
from the piano all in unison and without
a bresk
The kinderzartsners trooped back into
the big dressing room, applause follow .
ing twas time for the West Side School
and the Fast Side and TOmpkins sduArs
schools 10 show shat they could do
Out they went. ffty Of them. boys and
girls The boys wore flaming red bOws
under their chins and the girls had their
hair done 40 in red ribbons Nine-year-
old Margarita COppa, whose black hair
tumbled almost 20 her waist. bound by
that Eaudy ribbon. had been standing
consciously directly IN front u Maria
Macapa. the ahorn When MargaFita
gave her c,irls a toss and pTanCed 0ut
10 the auditorium hoor 10 take part IN the
swedish -bleking- dance Maria won't
20 a corner and at down with her face
and her shOrn head buried In a rcd cloak
She pulled the edges u the cloak up
over her outstanding ears
II was then that the teacher found her
The teacher put an arm around the buried
head and whispered for a long time in
Maria's ear Then sho got up and sent
10 another little girl whose dance did
not come until the very end 81 the pro
kramme This little giri wore n@N
white dress aud she had iilmy hood oi
pink cheeseclOth trimmed with paper
ROSES over her ciiris The teacher said
zpnethinR ~ this fortunate little EiTi.
then together they vent o. the corner
and there was nome unbuttoning The
more fortunate little girl wrapped her
hare arms and y hits bodice With beoofn
ing moiezty In the r.d cloak " hile the
ensuing transformation Of Maria Maoapa
was being accomplished
Then out went Maria Macapa. the first
~ all the Mott street school IN dancing
There we're forty and more others from
four schools besides Marias some wore
pink dresses some HOre whiie " ith sashes
u red white aud green over their shoul-
ders. some wore wreathes ~ pink paper
hJWers They all divided into five groups.
IN each group a double circle Then they
began Ia dance the ~ edish -carrOu-sl
A. they danced they sang full throatc'l
chorus
Pretty yuahisn. sues' and gay.
Jafr0uscl r. rarnng
~ uW run 900 evening
lItf'e one a nirafl uE uf9~ uNne.
Hurry ~ Get mate
Of you'H surely b. ioo late
Right out in front where William Church
Osborn. the president II the Children's
Aid Society. could So her nesi danced
Maria Macapa What though that white
dress gaped little AZ the hack and Maria
had 20 hold her head very still - thar
the glorious crown 81 cheeseclOth and
paper flowers did not topple on. she
danced a. only the first IN dancing Of all
! the Mott street school ran. Those two
I twinkling feet that had not been robbed
/ OF their craft by the fever fully redeemed
| the shaver poll.
After that came the -CsehhoEar.- a
! Hun RArian measure danced by small
I Italian citi1eneases from the West Side
| Italian school. jewish citizenesses from
/ Pike street and German and Irish dittoes
: from Tompkina Square. Twuscore oi
/ bohemian girls from tho Jones Memorial
school danced the Bohemian -Strazak.
| Norwegian. scotch and Russian dances
/ followed Al the end there was best
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