Connecticut western news., 1915-09-09

his papa from SNJ1ueS, Whlreupnn she privately informed him that she liked wavy hair and arranged to dance with him.
 Fanchon also thought that sandy hair was attractive. Sam Williams discover ed few minutes later. ani so catholic was her taste that ring Uf boys quite encircled her before the musicians in the yard struck up their thrilling march. and Mrs. Schoheld brought Penrod to escort the lady from out of town to the dancing pavilion.
 Headed by this pair. the children sought partners &nd paraded solemnly out of the front dJor and round Il cor her of the house. There they round the gay marquee. the small orchestra seated on the lawn at one side of i; and punch bowl of lemonade invit- ing attention under a tree. Decorous- ly the small couples stepped upon the platform. one after another, and began to dance.
 Its not much like children's party in our day" Mrs. Williams said tu penrod's mother. Wed have been lAAs HIS NshaANA a&ACN1AAA-~s NANI Ahf NahNl out or going to Jerusalem, I suppose"
 Yes, CT postoiiice and drop the hand kerchief,'' said Mrs. Schofield. Things change so quickly. Imagine asking lit tie Fanchon Gelbraith to play London bridge! Penrod seems to be having Il difficult time with her, poor boy. He wasn't a shining light in the dancing class"
 However, Penrod's difficulty was not precisely of the kind his mother SUD- posed.
 Fanchon was soon showing him Il new step. which she taught her next partner ill turn, continuing instruc tions during ihe dancing. The children crowded the floor. and in the kaleido, scopic tumble or bobbing heads and in- termingiing rgulcs her extremely diff ferent style of motion was unobseryed by the older people, who looked on, noddiug time benevolently.
 Fanchon fascinated girls as we'll as boys. Many of the former eagerly sought her acquaintance and thronged about her between the dances. when. tA% %NGBA1IAF- tue dG4GIGllNG hAE l AOSlslo- politan and an oracle of the mode, she gave demonstrations of the new step to succeeding groups. protesting as- tonishment te find it unknown. It had been 'all the go.'' she explained. at the Long Shore Casino for fully two seasons.
 She pronounced very "slow" fan cy dance" executed during an in- termission by Baby Rennsdale and Georgie Bassett. giving it as her opin- ion that Miss Rennsdale and Mir. Bas. sett were dead ones,' and she ex- pressed surprise that the punch bowl contained lemonade and not cham pagne.
 The dancing continued, the new step gaining instantly in popularity, fresh couples adventuring with every num- Der. The word 'step" is somewhat misleading. nothing done with the feet being vital to the evolutions intro came from the orient by n roundabout way.
 Pausing in old Spain. taking on Gallic frankness in gallantry at the Bal Bullier in Paris, combining with relative from the south seas encoun- tered in San Francisco. fiavoring itself with care free negroid abandon in New Orleans and accommodating. too. something inexpressible from Mexico and South America, it kept throughout its travels to the underworld or to cir cles where nature is extremely frank and rank, until at last it reached the dives of New York. when it immediate ly broke out in what is called civilized society.
 Thereafter it soon spread in vari- ously modified forms-some of them disinfected-to watering places and thence. carried by hundreds of older male and female Fanchons over the country. being eagerly adopted every where and made wholly pure and re- spectable by the supreme moral axiom that anything is all right if enough people do it.
 Everybody was doing it.
 Not quite everybody. It was per haps some test of this dance that earth could furnish no more grotesque sight than that of children doing It.
 Earth. assisted by Fanchon. was fur nishing this sight at Penrod's party. By the time ire cream and cake arriv- ed about half the guests had either been initiated klto fhe mysteries by Fanchon or were learning by imita- ton. and the education of the other half was resumed with the dancing when the attendant ladies, uncon, scious of what was happening, with drew into the house for tea and a bit of gossip.
 'That orcheatra's a dead one" Fan shon remarked to Penrod. We ought 10 liven them up little"
 She approached the musicians.
 Don't you know" she asked the leader, ''the 'Slingo Sligo Slide?'
 The leader giggled, nodded, rapped with his bow upon his violin, and Pen rod, following Fanchon back upon the dancing floor, blindly brushed with his elbow a solitary little figure standing