The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
RAISING DANCING
 ID OAPH|LOSOPHY Widow Admits to Killing of
 ArchaeOlOgist DIR. BLUME FAMOUS His Wife Had Been Complete Anti- thesis of Himself-ka aiserins
 Eldest Sister Visiting at
 Royal Palace
By MALCOLM CLARKE

Ny MALCOLM 0LAhNG
 Berlin, October 12.-(Special.)- )-Europe is apotheosising the dance. After the mild Maud Allan, Pavlova, Wiesenthal and other dance cults, the mere art of terpsichore is being raised to philoso- phy. The wobbling of bare arms and legs Is the arcanum not only of grace, harmony and the plastic and pictorial arts, but also of metaphysics, poetry. po- litical economy, of civilization itself. If you dance like Dervish you will tram scend all poor mortal fallibilities and blend with the divine. So says tho Swiss Herr Jaques- -Dalcroze, who has opened university of bare-limbed dancing to prove his views, and to prepare young men and maids for the new evangel of humanity.
 Nellerau, where the university stands, Is a new born Garden City, an hours dance from Dresden. You approach it with the reverence of Greek approach ing Eleusis Before you rises stately, austere and pillared temple with tower ing gable. That is the new Parthenon of the dance cult. Scattered about 1t are colleges and boarding houses for the young men and maids who by twinkling their naked limbs are heralding the com ing race. Nearly 800 persons in two years have come to be regenerated. They must be over IA years old, and most of them are under 20. They learn dancing and Solfege (Which Is sight singing and ear training) and rhythmical gymnastics, harmony, anatomy, respiration, choral | singing and plastic grouping. Twenty
 seven hours a week hard work, and two years of it, before you are turned out to teach the world to dance and wobble itself into the Golden Age.
 Most attractive is the dancing and plas- tic grouping. It certainly makes you think of the Golden Age when 50 young ladies of the best families appear before you clad only in tight. short tricot of the kind which appears in Europe's less fash ionable and less prudish bathing resorts. The music is good and the effect is heightened by a skifui operator who stands at switch and flashes lights on the dancing maids.
 The mystery of the death of the ai4A- aeologist, Dr. Blume, who was ssNt through the head on the banks of the Warthe at Unterburg, near Posen, has been speedily cleared up by the confess sion of the widow. She broke down under the inquisition of the examining judge and admitted that hers was the hand that directed the bullet, but at the same tlfle hHe uecldTeQ tildl III klillIS HtT Hus- band she acted in a condition of mental disturbance brought about by the mo- mentary excitement of a quarrel. If this were so, she would, of course, under Ger man law, be guilty of manslaughter and not of murder. On the other hand. the very facts, by the knowledge of which the judge was able to extort her confess sion, point to the deed having been de- liberate for it was the evidence of shopkeeper that she had recently pur- chased from him the two revolvers, which convinced her of the futilty of ad- herring to her version of the tragedy.
 Further details of this sordid drama of passion and bloodshed have now be- come known. Fraulein Walters, 1t ap- pears. was reputed to be altogether too conscious of her charms, even as a school girl, and in the few years which have elapsed since that phase of her life she was always the capricious ob- feet of much masculine attention Event ually she beQothed herself to an engineer, but while she was still engaged to him, pr. Blume appeared on the scene as a suitor. The young savant who had the reputation of being very shy and re- served man, to whom prehistoric Ger mans were much more real and living beings than his own contemporaries, seem to have been attracted by the sheer anthitisis of her butterfly nature. The girl, 1t Is believed, did not at all recpro- cate his affection, and when she finally accepted him in place of her former fiancee, she was only yielding to the ar guments of her friends that she would be foolish to throw away the chance of unit ing her lot to that of a man destined to achieve distinction
 The Parsifal company has received from Japan the news that the airship supplied by them to that country has not been completely destroyed, as was at first re- ported. but that the injuries are of a trining nature and were caused not by a typhoon, but through the carelessness of Japanese officer
 The Kaiserins eldest sister, Duchess Friedrick Ferdinand, has been on visit to the New palace, as she nearly always Is when her majesty is alone and the royal ladies are very happy together, The Crown Princess has arrived with her little sons, and has taken up her residence for the present at the Marble palace on the Havel banks The Crown Princess of Greece is also at the New palace.
 Downright Dishonest
 Frou, the Washin gton Star