The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-06
Amusement Season 10 On and People
seek Violent Exercise In Spite
Of the Hot
weather.
TANGO IS ATHLETIC
Everybody 10 Dancing Who 10 Not
Playing Golf, Lacrosse or
some othsr
Game.

Game.
[By Carlton Ten Eyck, written for
the United Press.1
NEW YORK, July 6.-This Is New
FORKS amusement season. The same
sort OF q tired business man who In
the winter time sits through musical
comedies ana eats tndigestible things
between tangoes at Broadway's cafes
until two O'Clock in the morn
ing. IL out desperately attempting to
keep amused. Naturally Coney Island
Is the nrst spot for amusements. But
there are a good many others.
To one who journeys up to Van
Cortlandt park Of . Sunday afternoon.
It looks as though the population Of
burg about tho size Of indianapolis
were out-and everybody Is striving
desperately for amusement. There
are cricket games. rugby games. ten
mis-. golf. Jumping, running, hockey,
lacrosse-and even marble games-in
full operation Usually battery or 60
Of the N. 7. N. g artillery sweeps up
and down the broad field in maneu-
vers. Everybody Is playing hard
young, old, fat, thin. rich and poor. A
crowd OF SWANS stand or sit around
and watch.
A perfectly correct team Of cricket
ers-just like pictures in the London
Sketch, with flannel blazers and neat
eton caps-is solemnly bowling along
on one bit OF ground while next to
them as similar game. with jamaican
negroes Just as eagerly playing.
The great American game IL repre-
scented by score or more Of mines.
Over on the golf course the man with
specially made clubs may trail along
behind an ex-cabbie, with his pick-ups.
It Is really remarkable. when one
comes to think 1t over, that there
should be 50 many people anxiously
pursuing athletics.
Leave Van Cortlandt park for the
nonce-the Hudson river furnishes Q
vast field for the amusement seekers.
The natural woods along its banks
on the New York or New Jersey sides
will be full Of picnickers every aft
ernoon from now on and on Sundays
they occupy almost every clearing. On
the river every sort Of craft from the
most palatial river liner to the wheel
lest motor boat plough its waters.
There are at least a dozen tent colo
mics on the Jersey shore within easy
reach Of the city.
But the outdoor amusements some
way or another do not seem to have
brought about any appreciable reduc-
ton in the number OF cafe patrons.
Broadway's gilded palaces have made
concessions to the hot weather-spe-
cial refigerating apparatus In some
instances-and the tango goes on,
1ust the same, melted collars notwith-
standing.
OF course It IL the inns that reap
the greatest harvest Of gold. There
are literally hundreds Of them scat
tered in inviting spots just outside
the city. They tempt the thirsty
motorist-and once the thirsty motor.
list gets inside, he succumbs to the
lure Of the hesitation or the onestep
or the make. Where restaurants.
cafes and inns once advertised the
fact that they permitted dancing,
nowadays it's the paltry few who still
refuse terpischore who advertise mo
dancing Everybody takes It for
granted that there is dancing, unless
there's a distinct announcement to
the contrary.
This dancing craze comes in right.
lily, after mention above OF athletics
Fat dowagers who hailed the advent
of the hesitation and the one-step be,
cause they were SO less firing than
the old dances are now rejoicing these
days-and they're not dancing the
new steps, either.
The make Is q real athletic dance,
/ The fat are Just naturally debarred
It is told, by ladies who know how to
dance 1t, that no woman can hope to
get through the correct steps unless
she wears, er-one of those new
tangled elastic corsets. Certainly It
can't be accomplished, they say, in
the long hfpped ones.
| There is a naval officer In this city
who keeps in trim by his dancing.
Like all Of Uncle Sans officers, he
must undergo a physical test each
month He must walk at least TWEEN
1 ty miles every thirty days. Until this
year, this stunt meant that he had to
take daily walk OF four or five
miles, just to keep in trim for the
| twenty-mile Jaunt-for this individual
is nearing the forties and corpulency.
| Now, however, he keeps in trim by
dancing. There's photograph in
! his house and he and his wife dance
half eozen tangoes or maxixes every
evening.
Fifteen nro~ned