Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-07-06


formed into rhymless and formless
romps. In those days only the very
young both in body and spirit dane
ed.
Then came the dark ages of dane
ing Presentable youth declined to
dance, pretended they had forgotten
all the steps laboriously calculated
nto them; evaded parties where they
weer expected to dance; or drop
ing in" for the sake of the supper
or of a girl or two whom they cared
to meet, loked ironically upon the
ranked, "wal flowers" who lacked
partners or upon the disheartened
hostess vainly seeking them.
They All Dance Now
Now, everyone dances and dances
gladly--and most of al, the present
able youth who&u to affect tired
voices and tired eyes when their hos
tess suggested partner to them
Now, rather, must she seek out the
danseuse, lest the youth in their utrn
become "wallflowers"-n prep to
ennui and to the caricaturist. The
hostess is popular and success
full according as she transforms her
entertainments into dances in the
quickest possible order and assures
partners to the waiting and eager
men. According also-and yet
more importantly-as she chooses he1
dances. London society no longer
waltzes any more than it 'polks." The
Kitchen dancers have presumably
receded into the kitchen whence they
came. London Bostons; London
turkey trots,' and London 'tangoes'
and great is it's joy thereof.
AS vet London does all three only
in private parties. At subscription and
very formal balls it still waltzes-
the revereless, monotonous British
waltz that would try the nerves OF the
marionette. Bad dancers have al
WAYS preferred it, since it lay within
their power. Austere matrons, whose
parties are always failures, encourage
It. setting their somewhat heavy jaws
and broad bosoms against the new
dances. as denominations" to British
..decenjylG 'rhey are of the endless
brod OF Canute's daughters. He
could as soon stay the sea as they
the vogue of the new dances. Before
long. some restaurant keeper, with
adjoining bathrooms, will be scrutlnlz-
in gthc regulations of the county
council to discover whether he may
now propagate the Boston, the tuf'
KEEP trot and the tango after the
manner of New York. Some months
ago. in the theatres and the music
halls. London caught the mania Of
ra gtime Now, up and down the social
scale. it is catching the mania fol
turkey troting whereupon all Lon
don "goes dancing again.
"Negroid'' the Matrons Say.
Consequently all social London thai
dances. that bears it's daughters te
dances. that gives parties or thai
merely looks on at them is divided
into two factions. One, the party ma
tronal. so to say, abhors them. IN ex-
cited conversation it calls them ne
grold,' word that has suddenly anu
amusingly enriched the somewhat
limited vocabulary of the socla'ly
elect Applied to dances, it is fast ac-
quiring the same usage as un-
American" enjoys at home as label
for something the speaker or writer
happens to dislike. But "negrold' is
sonorous word in garrulous contro-
versy over the new dances. Proper
ly shot off an indignant matrons
tongue, it can make innocent young
girls color and the presentable young
wonder what mysteries it. enfolds.
"Negrold' also looks imposing in the
large type of letter to the Times
with peerless" in still larger type for
the signature.
The casual reader may even sus-
pect that 1.-The English home" is
somehow endangered. 1t usually is, If
one happens to dislike anything. Such
Of the indignant as happen also to be
learned trace the tango through the
music halls of Paris and then by a
long leap into the purlieus of Buenos
Ayres, refer the turkey trot to New
York which, of course, is enough,
and hesitate over the Boston. The
hardening Bostonian confidently ex-
poets, as the dispute wakes, to hear
that innocent dance-which some say
was invented in Faris-labeled me
grold," because Boston was once the
seat OF anti-slavery propaganda.
Meanwhile the maidens and the pre-
sentable youth know only that they
learned these dances in the ordinary