Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-29

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toned in the islands. Miss Fulmore
has also visited In the islands as well
as her brother, Mr.. Stirling Fillmore.
Surg. Cary d. Langhorne, ~ s. n,
and Mrs. Langhorne have returned to
Washington, d. c., from Osterville,
Mass, and are registered at the Graf
ton. Their friends in the islands
made during q two years sojourn
here, will be interested to hear Of
there whereabouts.
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Comdr. Chester Wells, u. 8. NJ
now al the Washington Navy Yard,
and Mrs. Wells are in New York at
the Hotel Astor for few days, hay-
ing come to meet Mrs. Seymour Eat
on, sister Of Mrs. Wells, who arrived
Saturday on the Campania. Of the
Cunard line, from Europe, where she
makes her home. Comdr. and Mrs
Wells with Mrs. Eaton Will return TO
washington. In q few days, and Mrs.
Eaton will visit them for the next
three months.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. D. Tenney were
prominent Honolulans to return on
the Wilhelmfna this week. Mrs. Ten
ney has been on the mainland i've
months or more, recuperating from g.
serious illness. She was joined two
months ago by her husband and to-
gether they were extensively enter
tanned by their many friends in the
bay cities. The Tenneys have,
brought home new machine with
them this tinea Stevens Duryea as
usual, of the very latest model.
Among those to arrive on the VIII
helmina yesterday were Mrs. E. g.
Bishop and Miss Ethel Bishop Of
Berkeley, formerly of Kauai. Mrs.
Bishop and her daughter are at the
Pleasanton where they are the reci-I
pients OF scores of visits and tele-
phone messages from their many old
friends. They will be in the islands
three months or more, during which
time they will no doubt be extensive
ly entertained This is Mrs. Bishops
first visit to the islands since her
departure in 1907, though her sdaugh-
ter has returned several times.
Miss Rose Herbert returned to Ho-
nolulu on Tuesdays boat after four
months or more spent in California.
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n1tff. n vtx, 81 r tics
sailed for the Garden Island yester-
day on the Kinau Among these
were Mr.. and Mrs Philip Rice, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Rice, Mr. and Mrs.
j. r. Myers, Mr.. and Mrs. T. v. King,
Mrs. C. H. Wilcox and child and Miss
Anne NeWbegin.
Mrs John Scott of Hawaii re-
turned from the coast on yesterday s
Wilhelmina. Another prominent
islander to arrive was Mrs. M. Sor-
enson.
Tango Between Courses
La, la, and what are We coming to
when learned savants, trailing fefmid-
able letters after their names, take to
a ponderous analysis of the present
dance craze? When venerable jour-
mails like the London Times and the
Saturday Review, croWding out SOL
emn discussions of this or that, take
to yiYisecting the tango and the other
new dances which just now seem to
have bewitcheds the leisure world OF
the two eontinents-what indeed does
it all mean? E. 2.
Sir Ray Lancaster, renowned ey-
olutionist and one of the greatest SCI
entists since Darwin, has theory that
dancing has some function to perform
in the evolution of society or it would
not survive, and his thesis occupies
column after column and has been fol- |
lowed by letters to the editor" in
which Sir Lankester's views are as
sailed or defended. These views, by
the way, cannot be given in a short, |
off-hand review like this. One would |
either have to resort to flippant COM |
edy or TO the most ponderous logic to |
even review the English savant's |
views on dancing. But this much he |
does concade - that there is subtle |
connection between the capacity to |
dance we'll and the capacity TO tri- |
umph in the struggle for existence :.
And Sir Ray has no refere nee to the
fortunes which the dancing teachers
are accommodating these days.
He argues that the races that have |
possessed the gift OF rhythmic move
ment, in large numbers. have survived |
these which lacked this gift, and adj
mits that for large numbers of men
h 1n1a lSNNk
and rhythmically is evidence of a.
high socialized state of society. The /
French are the best dancers in the I
world, and the most politely civilized.
London and Paris society, papers