The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-27

Do you dance?
 beg your pardon.
 Of course you do
 Unless
 You happen to be minus perfectly good pair of -er-er-legs!
 Or
 Stranded on one of the Eff Islands.
 And,
 Even then, you'd probably be doing a wild, weird pas soul
 For
 Life has resolved itself everywhere, it seems. into just one beautiful dance after anotheri
 We are in the grip of the choreographic (nice word that isn't it?) are, and it lookc as if we would never emerge.
 It actually appears as ~svery blessed creature that stalks taa face of the earth was becoming ihsoued with the divine af- fatus of ,dhe terpsichorean fantasy to sgch an extent that we will rival the Greeks of old Patos day sooner or later.
 Oh,
 That's all right for you old fogies who sit snug and sequestered in your comfy old carpet slippers and think as you read this that I'm exaggerating or-er-er-- telling one of those weenyy, teen-y white ones," but I want to tell you
 I'm not!
 Some swirling dervish disease is cpl demic over the land, and its as contagious as the smallpox or the measles.
 Mexico may be perturbed, the baseball f,,u Mr. velt's hat may be in the ring, and the Wilson girls may stin be a-marrying, but these are nothing to the dance delrium that possesses us.
 In the drawing room, in the clubs, in the theatres, in the cafes-everybody' dancing!
 Dancing what?
 Why
 Anything under the shining sum- from the "Arizona Sammy to the Texas Peek aboo,'
 To be a veritable king of the tango, v like MT. Castle or MT. Jarrott, or MT. Hu- bert Kinney, our Birmingham boy of whom everybody is so proud since his successful premiere on the stage and his still more successful subsequent appear ances. ought to be enough glory to sat isfy anybody's ambition! For As I've said.
 Everybody who is anybody dances these days whenever the band strikes up 2 ''ragtime' tune! And fa at all if is a most deliciously pleasant sensation tc realize that you dance well! | Not only is dancing the most graceful of all amusement, but it is the healthiest the wholesomest (when done properly) the happiest and the most enchanting!
 It's real social tonic. i It's a delightful state of mental relaxa- | tion. If there is any doubt in your mind about all that I've said tand you know there are always a lot of people who are from Missouri, just drop into that beautiful attractive playhouse, ''rhe Lyric" this week and see your townsman, Al K. Kin ney, and his chick, graceful little partner, Miss Helene Clarke, in the latest ball. room dances and be convinced! 1 1 went, | 1 saw, And l was conquered completely by the mod ern dance craze, and MT. Kinney and Miss 1 Clarke. l It is really most delightful experience | Of course, I'd seen MT. Kinney dance | time and again at the Country club and al the various social functions in Birming ham, and l always thought he was 8 I dandy, good dancer. l But | As stood in the'wings yesterday (walt l ing for an interview, and l saw thi: clever artistic young gentleman bow tt | his partner and assume the graceful post
 .....................,.... dren yesterday at her home in Wylam the occasion being her birthday. l A large vase of red rambler roses | graced the center of the table and ths | guests were Mrs. William Muir, Mrs | sam Brodie. Mrs. William Gilmore, Mrs Evans Philpot Mrs. Dave Kelso, Mrs E. Haylar, Mrs. Ed Flynn, Mrs. James -aIc pro lev Mrs Drllm