The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-21
Turkey Trot, Tango, Bunny Hug and
Others Are Too Naughty to
be Allowed
In Paris.
REGINA BADET THINKS
She Had Been Arrested Several Times
for Her Dancing but 10 Hor-
ror Stricken at
Ours.
[By William Philip simms, Paris cor
respondent of the United Press.]

[By William Philip Simms, Paris cor
respondent of the United Press
PARIS. July 21.--Oh mercy! Now
will you behave? Regina Badet, the
naughtiest dancer in Paris, whose
steps have been investigated by the
police more than once and which have
caused Senator Berenger, the Anth-
ony Comstock of France, no end OF
trouble. says the American adapta-
ton of the tango, the bunny hug,
grizzly bear and other Yankee terp-
sichorean contrivances, are wicked
and should not be permitted.
II came about. Ike this:
America is having all sorts OF influ-
ence on the life of the old world, and
her vices more than her virtues are
quickly tried out over here. The
dances now popular in the United
States have been imported and So
Getty matrons are doing their best 70
staye off invasion of their drawing
rooms. They protest AGAINST these
exhibitions as they call them and
declare they should be left to the in
mates of dives who originated them
So the controversy so long waged
Everybody who is anybody has spok-
en- his or her mind on the subject and
newspapers have conducted contests
based upon 1t.
Nine. Cecile Sorel. famous beauty
and actress OF the Ccmedie- Franchise.
has pronounced against the new.
tangled dances: the Count de Pradere
savs It is delightful IL done right
but few people are able to do it;
Miguel Hamacois, the poet and play
wright, SAYS he should worry so
long as mothers and fathers let their
own children indulge: Henry Bern
stein. another playwright, thinks so
little Of the steps that he refuses to
make public his opinion: ]. f. Raj
faelli, the painter, SAYS the dances
are all right for cabaret but for the
rome, never! And so on and so
forth.
But Mile. Regina Badet, whose
dancing An La Femme ct lie Fantin''
made the eyes Of Paris bulge like
saucers and the sale OF opera glasses
onadruple overnight, just comes right
out and says they ought to be forbid.
den. They're too naughty.
Why are they too naughty" the
beautiful dancer was asked
There was a moment OF silence as
thought thes artist couldn't get over
being surprised at the question. Then
she replied
You know well enough why.
What's the good of my telling your"
Race suicide isn't doing the country
nearly so much harm as bad milk,
declared DR.. Ok, specialist in infant
diseases, known all over Europe.
Every year. in France, he says, over
$4,000 babies die of digestive all
ments. dirty milk, tricked milk. tuber-
calosis milk and unfit milk generally,
heing the principal cause
Every male child dying before the
age Of 81 means soldier lost to the
French army. so the areument Is
being advanced that IL the govern
ment wishes a bigger army one way
TO get 1t is to pass laws which will
provide for milk to be carefully watch,
ed from cows udder to baby's tummy
and kept perfectly pure, the precau-
ton having been taken to begin with
TO see that the cow was In good
health.
The same rule as to bad milk, says
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