Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-10
DANCERS IN PARADE
To Be a Feature of Suffrage
Pageant March 3.
BOYS RAID MICE MARKET
Threat to Turn Rodents Loose on
Paraders No Joke-Women
Call for Dogs.

| The turkey trot.' the grizzly bear
and similar modern dances were today
| dubbed the folk dances of a large part
| of the American people by Florence
| Fleming Noyes famed as classic dancer
in this country and abroad. who is to
take the part of Victory in the woman
suffrage pageant here March 3. Mrs
Noyes. who came here from New York
| to plan rehearsals for the pageant. said
that these new dances gave food for seri-
| Gus consideration, since they showed the
tendencies Of the people Of many classes
in American society today. She pointed
out that history shows the moral de-
| cadence of nations has always been her
aided by the kind of dances adopted by
the doomed people.
Mrs. Moves herself is the head of a new
school of dancing in this country, a
school which is attempting to bring the
people back to nature In their interpreta-
ton of music and of the beautiful. The
Greeks, she said interpreted In their
dancing the real beauties OF nature.
Present System All Wrong.
The present system of dancing is all
wrong, according to Mrs. Moves. and the
people must unlearn what they have
de Medici, when the principles that gov
ern the ballet were laid down. Instead
of these fixed principles. she says. the
dancers should rely upon the sympa athletic
system of the body to express and in
terpert the music. Her system is to he
used by settlement workers in London to
help teach the poor children to under
stand and feel the beautiful things in ma
ture.
AS Winged Victory in the suffrage pag-
cant. Mrs. Moves will wear flowing GRIM
son draperies with golden wings attached
to her shoulders. She will dance a dance
of triumph. Her attendants, twenty in
number have not yet all been selected.
but among them will he Miss Elsie HILL.
daughter of Representative Hill of Con-
necticut. One of Mrs Noyes' pupils in
New York. Miss Mildred Anderson. is to
impersonate Hope" in the pageant, and
she. too. will dance. The suffragists Sc
lected Miss Anderson for the part because
she would be able to receive the coaching
of Mrs. Moves for the dance.
Mice Plot No Joke.
The demand for rats and mice. which
college boys in Washington plan to set
loose when the suffragists march up
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. is no joke. it was
learned today. Edward S. Schmid, who
deals In pet animals of all kinds, said
from Young men for rats and mice to be
used March -.
''Of course. we only keep white mice
and rats. and black mice, said Mr.
Schmid. and do not keep the common
gray rats and mice.
Mr. Schmid said that he had received
a telephone call from suffrage head
quarters asking whether he could supply
some good rat dogs which the women
might sick on the rats and mice il the
rodents are 1pose1 during the parade.
Congressman to March.
Carried captive behind a banner in
scribed Women helped elect these men.
members Of Congress from those states
having suffrage will march in the suf-
fragist parade March 3. 1t was announced
at national suffragist headquarters today
that at least forty senator's and repre-
sentatives would be in the procession. All
who desire to take part. however, were
invited to do so in letter OF invitation
sent them today by the suffraSstS.
1t was announced that Dawn Mist,
daughter of Chief Three Bears OF the
ella der National Park lndpns. wQuid
ride beside Miss Inc: Miiholland Of New
York. the leader Of the parade, as rep
resentative of the original American
suffragtsts.
Mrs. Albert Sydney Burleson, wife of
the representative from Texas, has writ
ten play entitled THE UnWeicome
Partner for the woman suffragists. 1t
was intended at first to have the play
produced in New York, but there is talk
now about bringing 1T out here at the
time of the big demonstration by the
women. 1t deals with the philosophy of
the woman suffrage movement
Rehearses Her Dances.
Shortly after O'Clock last night Flor
the classical dancer
who arrived from New York yesterday
to take the part of Liberty in the Treas
ury steps suffrage tableaux, with Mrs.
Glenna Smith Tinnin and Miss Hazen
MacKaye went out on the Treasury steps
and was soon weaving the maZes OF
strange oriental dances in a rehearsal
The anti-suffrag ists do not mean to
leave the field entirely to their opponents
In Washington at this time. and an eX-
tensive campaign has been planned
against votes for women The ants
will hold Il number of meetings here to
show that thousands of women In this
country do not want the ballot, and that
it would be an evil thing for the country
TO give the women the vote. The ''antis'
will hold a big meeting February % In
the Belasco Theater.
The suffragists will hold a big meeting
Sunday March . the day before their
parade in the Columbia Theater, and the
speakers will be Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait Miss IneZ MilhOlland and Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch-
Hefiin Scores Suffrage.
Woman suffrage was vigorously crlti-
cised by Representative Hefflin Of Ala
bama yesterday in a speech at the Bap-
tist Church in Falls Church. Va. He de-
clared that suffrage would prove a ruina-
ton OF homes. and advised all Virginia
women to stay out of the parade
Place in her hands the ballot. induce
her to occupy the place of men. and you
will destroy all that is feminine in her.
he said Woman is loved for her femi-
ninity Make her a man. with man g
homes and a mans ambitions and you
blot from her character all that Is beauti-
full The man who builds the home and
furnishes II will do the voting for both.
The suffrage leaders said last night that
they hoped more persons would make the
same kind Of argument against suffrage,
because they believed II would strengthen
their cause.
With the evidence open to all that suf-
fraCe in nine states has not broken up
any homes and has not destroyed the
femininitv of women. such words sound
foolish they said
COMPANION FOR THEIR BOY.