Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-28

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that has kept this column from deigning
| to notice these so-called dances which
| are making the human race into set of
| whirling dervishes. but the time has come
! to put the column on record Coming
down on the car this morning was the
| lowest OF the low-brows. ] think he was
an escaped Carranzsta. or one of Villa 8
choicest butchers. Perhaps he was gun
man from New York. He could have
| been and no one would have been sur
prised. I heard him say to his fellow
| low-brow:
This yer feesh walk got EN- all daffy.
| amt it,
| His friend said it had.
It's some swell dance buh-leeve me-
Y'ought to see me when gotta good
pardner"
Now if burglar like that has gone
daffy over the fshwalk then it is true
| that all classes of society tine word is
| used in its proper sense-not in vanity bag
meanins) have been permeated. poisoned
| and made septic beyond all hope. When
| ever I think Of the fishwalk ! wonder II
i the elder Strauss is turning over and
! moaning in his tomb when he thinks OF
| what the divine waltz has fallen to; and
| whenever | see the fiShwalk ! am posi-
| tive that | know why real fish swims.
| Whenever I see hesitation" 7 wonder
| when it will become crime for one part
ner to say to another He who hesitates
is lost and whenever | see q little man
with downy mustache targoInS man
fully and bravefullv with d large lady |
realize what a blessing it must have
been when the Spartans killed off all un-
desirables early in their youth.
~ In large Office a few days ago there
were ten men. ranging from the slender
and youthful to the old and fat. and the
oldest and latest was teaching some of
the rest what he had learned in the hest
| tation line only few days previously. 1t
was not a beautiful sight. His knees
sagged and his figure wabbled The only
hesitancy about the hesitation he was
presenting was coupled with his feet
which had never learned the true mean
ing of team work. and instead OF having
the joyousness of the dance written in
his smile, he appeared to be suffering
under the belief that a national calamity
had fallen upon us.
Il learned that last week. said he.
and my wife learned it at the same time.
] learned from Mrs. Dancing Teacher and
my wife from Mr.. Dancing Teacher. and
then. when We had paid our money, $40
a lesson. found that my wife had
learned one system and I had learned
another and now we can't dance together
at all.
And then two other men started to show
what they knew about the tango, both
of them wearing that deep and serious
expression which is far from what / call
beautiful. One should think Of wood
nynphS and the graces of the woodland
nymphs when dancing. It's meant to be
fun-honeSt it is.
And also this column has heard of a
young man in the city who boasts of
being: taken to tea dances by allegedly
charges for tickets or refreshments.
suppose he will be carrying a white
poodle next
Anyhow. as Theodore Tilier says. it all
goes to prove the Darwinian theory con-
corning the descent of man.
Representative Dennis OLeary of New
York. quiet and shrewd, member of the
House committee on the District of Co
lumbia. is the father of this tale. He
whispered it in the ears of Representative
Mapes and myself one afternoon When
things in the District committee We're
not lively as usual. He says it hap
pened in a mining section.
1t seems that there were two miners. One
was named Daniel Aloysius % Flaherty,
whose parentage and native land may be
left to the imagination. and the other
had a name 50 full of consonants that
none but his Polak playfellows could pro-
nounce it. When they called him the
sound of his name was like a large col
lection of coal sliding down a screen.
The two men were so different in ap
pearance. nature and nationality that it
almost made any one laugh to see them
working side by side in the coal mine
One day an Irish friend of Daniel saw
him dressed up in a suit of black that
would have done for an arctic expedition
He had on a tile hat that saw Boyne