New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-14
TURKEY TR0T IS DOOMED
Washington HOSteSSeS to Danish
Dance Unless Modified.
CIGARETTE LENDS ITS AID
American Women Determined
Not to Allow Smoking to Be
come a Custom.
From The Tribune Bureau. J

Washington April 1S.--There is a feel
ing Of resentment in social circles here
over the publicity given to some OF the
extreme dances executed at the ball given
by Mrs. Robert W. Patterson on Wednes-
day night. but 1t is generally conceded
that the turkey trot' must either go or
undergo material notifications. Wash
ington hostesses have refrained as much
as possible from putting the ban on the
new dances. but are now determined that
such exhibitions as were seen on Nednes-
day night shall not greet the sight OF
their young daughters.
Mrs. Patterson was. of course, unaware
that the new fads were to be introduced
and the music for them was not on the
programme IT was only al the urgent
request Of some of the young people that
Countess Eleanor Gizycki, daughter OF the
hostess. consented to ask the musicians
10 play for them. Mrs. Edward X
Thomas, OF New York, a frequent Visl'or
to Washington this and last winter mas
rather encouraged the extreme tone the
dance has taken on in Washington "hlch
has more than once caused the Seuate
women in society to hold up their hanos
with MY goodness shocking. ana
has even caused the club members TO eA-
claim cut it out" one couple occupied
the floor conspicuously at Mrs. Patterson
ball on Wednesday night, and evidently
the effort was 10 give the rather extreme
pbase TO the dance after watching few
NJ the dainty girls Of society do the steps
with childish grace.
II IS generally conceded that the death
blow TO the turkey trot' has been dealt
in the capital, and that all music for II
will be excluded, especially when ambas-
sailors and their wives and the more sc
date members Of society are present
1T was no more the dance than the
cigarette" urges part Of the smart set;
but how can you blame woman for
smoking, when cigarettes are passed after
almost every large and fashionable din
ner given in Washington and young girls
sit BY and watch their mothers smoke?
Many Of the women Of the diplomatic
CORPS who have lived in countries where
smoking is a custom among women DO not
hesitate 70 smoke, but IL is scarcely eX-
pected that American women will allow u
10 become a custom among their daughtels s
The stoutest protests against the turkey
trot and grizzly bear dances are that cis
arettes and highballs are the natural &C
commitment Of the dances II is fact
that many OF the best known hostessss OF
washington invite the women guests ~
their dinner parties into one smoking room:
after the dinner while ths men use anotheE.
Still other hostesses pass cigarettes with
the cigars and the women and men smoke
together.
There are occasions on which the Worla
renowned little lady who created the sen
sation at Mrs Patterson's ball with her one
cigarette walks boldly in and smokes with
her husband and other men when no othef
Mace is provided. 10 one knows just what
the father Of this national belle thinks u
the turkey trot, but they are well aware
that he knows full well all about her use
Of the festive cigarette.
II is urged, however, that even though
women may smoke after dinner, men ara
not in the abit Of smoking in the ballroom
and the suggestion is made that the combl-
nation Of an ultra-decollette gown, pecu!-