The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

There are many who are opposed 10 dancing. There are people in the world who would banish the very smile of childhood, the gayety of youth and bring back the gloom of fanatical intolerance. But whatever it's detractors may say, it Is delightful and harmless exercise when properly conducted, and has given great pleasure to countless thousands and thus made the world brighter, better and happier
 Nothing in the world can compare with 16 or thereabouts when permitted to at tend her first dance. She derives from il 0 three-fold pleasure, namely, anticipa- tion, realization, and reflection. The an ticipation of the suspicious event brings a sparkle to the eye. a glow to the cheek and joy to the heart of the little charmer as she looks forward to the occasion with all the eagerness and anticipation of her more tender years as Christmas ap- preached. She fairly revels in an atmos- phere of soft and silken fabrics, dainty lingerie. ribbons, laces and furbelows and other feminine embellishments from which she emerges on the night of the dance. a bewitching and bewildering little beauty that would cause even the heart of 3 petrified man to f1utter and to fall and worship at her shrine.
 At the dance her fondest dreams are realized, her beauty and grace capture every masculine heart. She Is proclaimed a queen and ardent youth and mature man vie with each other in bending before her throne to pay her homage. After il is all over she passes many a pleasant hour refecting on the happiness of the occasion and recalls with many smile the open adoration of youthful James and the silent admiration of mature John, It is a shame that the source of SC much pleasure should be perverted, and the hope Is expressed that with the ban iskmentof the freak dances, the minclne gait and funereal movements will come the return of that graceful slide and swing of the waltz and the spirit and dash of the two-step.
 At the recent society circus given al the Jefferson theatre, one of the most de-
 
 composed of six dainty debutantes and six-well, for the want of better name, there being none to apply to the young men who have just "come out" we will designate them "debutanters six debutanters who rendered very pleas ing waltz song number.
 It was of the usual "Florodora' order that is. the song itself, for no profession al sextette could ever compare with the grace and beauty of the 'rosebuds" that composed the exquisite bouquet of fem mine lovllness that graced the stage f the Jefferson theatre on that occasion. The young fellows were sprghtly chaps and dandy dancers, but they were like unto the bridegroom at a fashionable wedding a very necessary adjunct, but little noticed.
 They executed the dance with much grace and spirit; not with the "hippity hop" affected by some of the present day dancers. but with the graceful, gliding, rymthic movement of the waltz in its highest development. It was delightful to witness them as they exemplified the poetry of motion smoothly, gracefully buoyantly and evidently with keen pleas ure to themselves and certainly with the appreciation of the audience.
 The rendition of the dance by these young people elevated 1t to an art As such the dance will be maintained, for good taste and refinement will relegate the "frayed and frzzled rag" back to it's original source, and desire to preserve the beautiful will banish for ever the milder innovations.
 There is as much difference between a genuine waltz or two step and Tan