Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

which | saw the night before last; ana
the Dakota drag was just like the Chey-
enne clasp, which, in its turn, was COM
plete ringer for the Tennessee trudge;
that latter being precisely like the Mon
tana mash; and so on, and so on. until
we get back to the original of all OF
these NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., gyratory eX-
ercises miscailed dances, which the same
is the kind of Apache French-called
"Pash') dance that Is done by maybe
French dancers on some vaudeville stages
I'm this country. and is never done by
PEACHES in France. The turkey trot and
the grizzly come from the same source
These measley dances are now on view
every night, and nearly all of the night,
at the New York cabarets-and the New
York cabaret is as much like the Paris
cabaret as Flagstaff. Ariz. is like WASH
ingtOn. The dancers are unwholesone,
swart. spindly looking little specimens or
males and females: they look as il they
lived underground during al of the hours
of sunshine and only emerged, like rats
all that is wholesome i'm creation is
asleep.
!; x
How the New Workers do fall for this
sort of thing. They put up with any
sort of inconvenience or annoyance in
order to gaze at it open-mouthed. agape,
like a clutter of Zekes watching a shell
game outside of county fair Some of
these misnamed cabarets are small,
smoky, maIodorous holes in the wall
The ratty-iooking dancers OF the foolish
dances swing and comfort and gyrate
up and down the aisles between the
tables, necessarily butting into the tables
and the 70 ks sitting at them, often over
turning dishes and bottles because there
isn't room Tor them 10 get about in
otherwise, and the 'biase" New Workers
scroonched up at the tables laugh and
litter and giggle and enjoy themse. YES
and take-it-f. om-themselves that they
are wildous. riotous. dissipatedous people
plunged right up To the ears in Bohemia n
life plus and with the addition mark
IL is SrueSome.
Even in the larger cabarets these aisle
squirmers are nuisance and an attic
ton; one who, out of careiessness or
through accident, drops into one of these
pretentious arger ca barets to get some
thing to eat or drink must, unless he
can induce the predatory hat Doy at the
door TO give him back his top-gear sit
and watch these sinister-looking dancers
go through their performances, which
are not even relieved by anything so
mitigating as even symptom sug-
gestion of daintineSS
The writer hereof doesn't write from
the moral point of view; he simply
writes about what he sees; and these
cabaret dances are merely disgusting.
There's nothing of grace about them.
I've attended a lot of picnics i'm the Nu-
uanu Gorge, outside of Honolulu, where
there were hula-hula girls tsome of them
pretty enough to have been the priced
dancers for the late King Dave" Kala-
kaua of HawaiD with little or no cloth
ing on their bronzed persons not called
for by the Hawaiian regu atoms as to
hula-hula dancers. But the performances
of these girls We're beautiful; they ex-
pressed something: they spoke of the
poetic land in which the girls lived: their
motions We're in tune with. the text of
the performance. which was nature.
There wasn't anything that was disagree
able about such performances. These
dances were at least graceful and char
acteristic.