New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-26
TURKEY NOT TO TROT
AT JUNIOR COT|LLON
Fifth Avenue will Call Halt on
Dances That Have Caused
Criticism.
MILD PACE FOR COUNTRY
Patronesses of Big Affair Rec
ognize Danger of Setting Ex-
ample for Hoi Polloi--No
Objection to Ragtime.

The turkey VIII not be trotted at the
Junior Cotillons this year, whatever tne
BuIgars and the Thanksgiving hatcnets
may do to the poor creature. Inc youhG
and fair and strenuous of New York So
ciety have forsworn the turkey and al
his kind.
Mrs. Arthur Murray Dodge, manager Oh
the Juniors, announced yesterday that
she had the cooperation OF several groups
of young people. who had pledged them
selves to do everything in their power 70
eliminate Objectionable features from the
dances OF the coming season. meeting
Of the patronesses OF the Junior CotiilonH
was held at Mrs. Dodges home yesterday
afternoon to decide upon the plans Tor
the first dance, which will be given on De-
cember 3.
THE turkey trot itself" Mrs. Dodge
said, rs not the thing at all now. IL Is eH-
tremely passe, but when we speak OF tur
key trot we mean the whole class OF
dances which have become popular lately
and In which the Objectionable thing is
the position Of the dancers. Any OF. THESE
dances is perfectly unobJectionable In IT.
self II danced In the proper way Ihey
are not at all ike the original turkey
trot, which was invented and USED oy
drunken negroes and sailors In the dives
OF New Orleans and San Francisco. The
one-step dances may all be innocent JUST
as the old ones: even the Chaste ana
stately mlnuet might be made objection
,bIo - the dancerG chose
Raatime Not Objectionable.
I'VE don't object TO ragtime music. we
arc perfectly willing the young folks
should romp. We don't want them TO be
prim and proper and not have good
time. We object TO the clutch and the
strangle-thats all. We are putting all
our emphasis on the position OF the
dancers. Two OF the most prominent
dancing school teachers Of the city, MISS
owen and Miss ELEPHANT. were here this
afternoon and promised to use their In
nuence with the younger sets, 80 tfat
when they come out In year or two We
hope they will have learned TO dance
properly and will have no more trouble.
Everybody agreed that the nationwide
movement 10 make the public dance halls
more decent and respectable could not
possibly succeed while the style In oojec-
tIonabIe dances was set in Fifth avenue.
| know that the settlement workers and
such people az Mrs. Charles Israeis feel
very strongly about this. They can do
nothing until Fifth avenue mends It's
ways.
II believe there II a reaction already
however. We are not half 80 bad as we
are painted a year ago ! could not
have expected the cooperation or the
young folks themselves. Now, however,
after the extravagances OF the summer
and the criticism they have aroused all
over the country because OF their In
nuence. even the young and needless are
beginning TO think seriously about IT, ]
believe the worst IF over and n reaction
Is setting In. Whatever New York does
will be followed by the rest OF the coun-
try
NO, there viii he no rules laid down
for the cotilon. We are relying on the
good sense OF the young people them
selves. The patronesses will make every
effort AT these dances. az we'll as at any
they give themselves. to see that nothing
extreme Is done"
Patronesses for Cotillon.
The patronesses for the cotiIlon, most
Of whom were present at Mrs Dodge's
conference yesterday. include the follow
ing: