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DANCES Open UP
A new INDUSTRY
Students Earn Good Fees by
Serving as Partners.
ESCORTS FURNISHED, ALSO.

These Men Charge Heavily For Taking
Women to Entertainments and Dane
ing With Them-commercial Travel
ors Who Tango Get Lower Hotel
Rates In the Smaller Cities.
Brokers who seek other ways OF
making living in hard times are not
the only young men whom the dancing
craze has put on their feet. literally
and iguraiyely. Students at some Of
q the colleges and universities have
found in the feminine desire to dance
a profitable means of earning money.
at dance which takes place at
the end of the week in an uptown
hotel, says the New York Times, the
dancing men present are mainly the
husbands or relatives of the members
Of the club But these could not be
! dragged away from business for the
midweek dance, and as the women
were determined to have partners they
east about for them. One suggested
that college students might fill the bill
The experiment was tried. A score of
young men who spend most of the day
IN lecture halls uptown, but who have
become skilled dancers, were invited
to earn little spending money by be-
coming dancing partners for the mid
week gathering, and the experiment
has been successful and not expensive
II Is said that these partners receive
81 or 81 each at the end of the dance.
In Demand at Tea Dances.
Where the tea dance is conducted
by women IL has been found an ex-
cellent idea to employ one or more
adept young men to dance with the
unpartnered women, who so largely
Outnumber the men at these places and
who, II they can get a good dance or
two with an expert, are apt to come
again That is where the skilled young
college man comes in.
One of these, who dances at one OF
the most popular tea dances, gets $15
for dancing with anybody his employer
suggests during the afternoon, AS the
usual tea dance lasts only two hours and
a half, to $50 p, m. being the usual
period that is considered excellent pay. |
The student is thus enabled TO attend
FOR study in the evenings. Another
student gets $40 for such work, and
some are glad to get So. One who has
become an expert was looking for
work OF that kind the other day at
price OF $40 for three hours.
Many visitors to the White noun
talns in the past few seasons have been
New Haven who has been in the habit
of appearing everywhere with two
smart looking young men, whose ex-
penses through Yale, so goes the re-
port, she pays, with the understanding
that they shall accompany her when
over she goes to n dance and shall pay
her devoted attention She Is never a
wAllfiower
One OF the dancing schools conducts
q regular business of furnishing es-
eorts TO parties, but their services are
within the reach only OF those who
have plenty OF money. The charge for
this escort service Is $i5 for an even
ing, beginning at s or o o'clock and
lasting until l. Overtime is usually
charged for. II one OF these profes-
alopal escorts Is hired by the hour the
charge is 81,
Rebates For Dancing Drummers.
some commercial travellers say that
the dance craze has spread in the
smaller cities 10 such an extent that in
some hotels on the road a salesman
who can prove that he is good dancer
can get substantial reduction in the
price OF his room IL he will agree TO
show up at the hotel at tea time and
dance.
Some women who entertain a great
deal assert that young men have been
spoiled by the attention that has been
Bbowered upon them.
''only the other night ! invited one
to a dinner dance party" said one of
these women, "and ] paid for his
ticket. and | paid for his supper and
everything he drank Yet, do you
know, be actually ordered cigarettes
and let me pay for theDw