The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

son young than all the mystical springs and mythological methods ever dreamed of by crack brained adventurers or brazeh Charletan
 Dancing has had it's voteries In every age and every cline The scrlptual al lusions to dancing are many, and all down the ages we learn that dancing was one of the taught arts. Dancing is natural exercise, and being natural is healthful. It Is as natural for the young to dance as it is for kittens to play or lambs to gambol. It imparts grace and
 beauty of carriage and gives life and ae-
 tion to those who practice 1t.
 It is long step from the stately minuet of colonial times to the turkey trot' and | Texas Tommy of the present day, the one describing to it's fullest extent the poetry of motion, the other a freak or
 rather an atrocity that we are glad
 to notice is being rapidly relegated to the 1 questionable source from whence 1t came,
 and the grace of the waltz and the dash
 of the two step are again coming back to
 their own
 1 But the mlnuet with all it's grace and
 beauty would be too slow for the present
 generation. Nothing less than "2,l0
 gait will satisfy the dancers of today and l even though at times they depart from
 the measure of the music and give a
 weird exhibition, consisting principally of
 "hippety-hop step and a strangle hold,
 they soon get back to the swing and rythm of the graceful waltz and glad
 some two step The kids simply can't
 help "ragging" 1t a little.
 ] The other night a dance was given at | one of the clubs It was attended largely l by the younger set The floor was a scene of singular brightness and beauty, and was all life and animation. The I girls were dainty little rosebuds of 16 or thereabouts, the boys on the whole manly 1 looking chaps who had Just passed the growing age.
 l Here and there would loom a bald head or bespectacled visage belonging to gay youth of 40 or more. while there was a | fair sprinkling of matrons of comfortable proportions It was a real pleasure to | witness the unadulterated pleasure of I the little debutants and gay debutanters, | and the desperate efforts of the older ones | 10 catch on The bewitching littls beau- | ties, the flashing lights, the inspiring I music and general surroundings made q | scene of joyousness that would have inl- | pressed the stern heart of Cotton Mather | had he been alive. that just as well try
 to stop the joyous thrill of the songhird | as to try and stop the yoEng folks from | dancing when 1t affords such pleasure. Dancing keeps the heart young. just as
 association with the young does, why last | Friday night the gay youths aforesaid l got gayer as the dance proceeded. IL was at It's height when the superb orches- tra struck up that soul-stirring strain l "Oh You Beautiful Doll" IL was simply l infectious. Harry Jones was present. you l know the Harry alluded to. for there Is only one Harry Jones. At the first few
 bars Harry looked up. the next moment his hat was in the ring. or rather he was | in the ring himself. and seizing a dainty little maiden floated down the floor as light of foot and as light of heart a'
 any of them
 George ward was in the balcony. George gave a most approving smile. and whal George approves of must always be taker into account. had he been a little nearer he would have taken the floor himself No one that had feet could resist thu
 seductive strains. even Ilugo-out we promised not to tell.
 1t was a delightful affair and certainly
 gave ----sure to all who was present