The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-08
BY Burton X. Standish.
written for the United Press.)

written for the United Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. Wei
they're here at last, after long month
of hopeless waiting. They" are thu
tea dansants," like they have in thos
dashing cafes in Moo York, and tn,
quarter Latin" just like Paris or Der
lin and the other up-to-date continen
tai capitals.
And are they popular? To answer
that question all one has to do is to
take a little jaunt to the local scenes
of ACTIVITY. At the Shoreham hotel
where the management has inaugural
ed the afternoon fishwalk thing allied
with tea cakes and an occasional high
ball for the daring, can be found Wash
ington's society bunch. Young and
old, official and unofficial, they're all
wiggling and wagging merrily to the
strains of ragtime music, in their best
afternoon clothes.
Tile HOUSE.
Over on Eighteenth street some wise
young real estate adventurer remodel
led an old colonial house, got painter
who understood what an old English
letter in active operation meant, and
hung out a sign: Studio Hail." He
also threw in a lot of windows some
queer looking rooms and fireplaces,
and the activity was on.
Within three weeks, about every va
cant house and barn in the neighbor-
hood was being transformed into stu
dos and today, only couple of months
after the craze started, there are no
less than two dozen studios, housing
everything from painter to a teacher
of the new aesthetic and unaesthetic
dances.
Sent Out Invitations.
But the tea dansant" is the one
great stunt. The first afternoon" oc-
CURED early in the week, and the man.
agement sent out very formal invita-
tons. Net that invitations are neces-
folks, congressional folks, and the
usual mob of well dressed men who
decorate the embassies were there in
polite turkey trotting droves. Nice
little tea tables were scattered about
the edges of the ballroom, with nice
little menus for each one, at the bot
toms of which were innocent an
nouncements that dinners could be had
in the dining rooms.
Hotels Take Notice.
So successful have the first few af
ternoon been that other hotels are sit
ting up and taking notice and it is
rumored that two more will soon begin
the afternoon dance thing, with some
novel innovations. And a New York
cafe proprietor is in Washington seek |
ing a site for q carabet cafe, where |
one can dance in between courses
and the tables.
Washington seems to be entering its
most feverish season of waddle steps.
Last winter the craze appeared in a
nice little mature form, but from the
announcements of dancing artists"
who are f1ocking here, it looks as if
about every second person in town
would be teaching dancing lessons or
taking dancing lessons pretty soon.
Garrison is Cold.
An interview with Secretary of War
Garrison is just about as successful
(unless a formed, red-tape appointment J
S made) as it used to be for the white d
house reporters to interview former y
Attorney General Wickersham, when
hat worthy was leaving a cabinet
Meeting
In those days, to interview the then o
General Wickersham, a re- a
orter or staid correspondent, had to r.
ave the speed of a deer, the adroitness IL
f the kingfisher, and the snap of
aut rubber band suddenly let loose, C;
l putting questions. A streak of m
ghtniing was as a turtle to a hare in q
to Wickersham fitting CT