The sun., 1910-02-23
THE HOP.O.MY-FHUMBS DANCE
THEY'RE SPINNING TOPS roo,
BUT THAT'S BY TIE WAY.

The Real snow was the Children OF the
University Settlement Hesplmg %
Draw Penmles for the summer Home
-A-Year-tpid Sadie Lost m Her Art.
De kids were spinning tops in Eldridge
street yesterday afternoon: An illegal
ball game was being impertinently played
under the very lamps OF the police station,
but the horror OF It was somewhat miti-
gated by the fact that only bunting"
was allowed. IL you had painted up to the
very top floor Of the University Settlement
house at lsa Eldridge street you would
have realized that these signs OF spring
were infallible and that warm weather
was almost here. But the folk dancing
that was being done in the gymnasium by
the children OF the settlement was well
worth climbing for.
The dancing was part OF the bazaar
that is going on in the settlement house
for the benefit OF the mothers and chill
dren's summer home that the settlement
supports. The Faithful Workers and the
Wisdom Seekers and all the Busy Bees and
Little Woman squatted ON the floor and
watched the members OF their sister organ
izations perform. These clubs, formed by
the settlement children themselves. are
for the most part literary affairs. But
Clio, Cailiope and Melpomene were forced
to bow to Terpsichore yesterday. and the
light fantastic toe Of Lillian Kaplowitz.
one OK Essex street's prominent poeteaaes,
oondescended to trip through the mazes
OF Swedish dance for the sake of the
summer homo. Lillian, you know, is the
author Of that glowing lyric dedicated to
Justice and the Essex Market court;
How proud you stand. o stately manse.
Within your portals would tarry
Where every poor man has q chance
And Justice never docs miscarry.
Lillian has Roeettish hair aRd an un-
compromising tiptilted nose Chat makes
one expect Breen rather than Kaplowity
In answer to an ignorant query as to
her name. She was the leader OF a
plump. pigtailed line Of diminutive
] figures tho manner In which hax is reaped
| in Sweden. Then came the Platonien
settlers IN Hungarian costume. who acted
-Dornroschen. which IL the peculiar way
they pronounce Sleeping Beauty in the
There were Danish and Scotch and
Bohemian dances; and then Ruth Cohen,
| who stands about two fingers high,
pointed q fat thumb dramatically and said
a poem about % Jack k-o-Lantern" that
made the hit OF the afternoon and caused
Miss kAplowitz to writhe m jealous agony.
| When the dancers first came ON the
hoor they were scared most to deaf, but
presently as the music got into their
blood they forgot their audience and
danced with all the abandon that charac-
terixes their impromptu performances
beside hand organs on spring afternoons.
Indeed 80 excited did Sadie Hopper,
years old. become In the midst OF the
highland fling that she revealed q funny
little pink garter. to the horror OF the
young woman who taught the class and
the intense delight OF the rest OF the
audience.
After the dances were over every one
made a bee line for good natured DR..
Robbins Gilman, the settlement's head
worker, who was buried soon under q
squirming mass OF Helping Hands and
Wisdom Seekers and Piatonian Settlers.
There viii be concerts this afternoon and
| tomorrow.
The bazaar is being held under the
auspices of the woman's auxiliary OF the
settlement. Mrs. John II. Macarthur Ia
president of the auxiliary. and among
the patronesses are Mrs. George +. Shrady.
Mrs. Archer NJ. Huntington. Mrs. Edwin
r. Hewitt, Mrs. Casimir de r. Moore.
Mrs. John r. Prince, Mrs. James Speyer
and Miss Edith Kendall.