The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04

Rumors of an engagement that have
gained Roadway, until so many people
Know that it can hardly be called
news any more, concern an out-of-
town girl and Topeka man. The
engagement is not formally announc-
Cd. The young woman is Miss limo
Blokstadt of Chicago and her expected
marriage to Mr.. Tom King of Topeka
IS subject of wide interest to the
society people of town. Miss Blokstadt
Is relative of Mrs. Harry Clark and
MT clark, who lived in Topeka num-
Der of years and were members of the
country club set. She visited Mrs.
Clark last year and met a good many
people OF the circle in which MT anu
MRS. Clark moved. She is an attract
I've young woman and made many
friends here.
Mr.. King is ticket agent for the
santa Fe railway, and one of the best
known men in Topeka In dealing
with the travelling public, his courtesy
and his thorough knowledge of his
business, make him favorite in 4
business way, while socially he knows
practically everyone of consequence n
town. He is occupying apartments IN
the Baker flats, in West Eleventh
riage will take place some time this
fall.
Miss Adelaide Updegraff, of Maple
Hill, and Miss Edith Updegraff, have
gone to Wichita to be guests of Miss
Mary Churchward. They were guests
of honor at a bridge-tea this after
noon given by Miss Churchward
The days of the freak dances, we
are told, have passed, and no longer
are people to work harder than har-
vest hands to enjoy an evening at
what is supposed to be recreation. For
the past few years a dance was al
most a painful performance to watch,
much less to take part in. The part
ners watched their feet, counted re-
1 rrir yikzfx n
trembled for fear of making mistakes.
But that is over now.
Miss Hazel Howe, who has returned
from Chicago, where she spent the
summer in the study of ball room and
aeSth etc dances, says that the dances
now have become standardized in |
such u way that the difficulties have |
been eliminated, and the steps sim |
plified. THE dances for this season." |
Miss Howe says, will be reduced to |
three in number that will be recog- /
nized as good. There will be the one |
step, the fox trot and a waltz conbina-
ton. And moreover, the dances will |
be done uniformly; that is, all the /
dancers on the floor at one time will
be doing the same step. Since the
vogue of the late dances that have
been accepted in the past few years,
everyone danced his own way, and the
confusion on the ball room floor was
to watch and unpleasant to
take part in The sim plification of
more popular than it has ever been
before In the cities there has never
been so much evidence of the favor
in which dancing is to be held as there /
is this season. The ease with which
the new dances ca n be done will make /
normal conversation during the dance, T
not only possible. but agreea BILE.
In the past, conversation was the
ast thing to be thought of in connec-
ton with a dance, that is, anything
more than fitful admonitions to count
md keep in step. Dancers thought
that the higher hey jumped and the
lower they dipped, the more tango
they were doing, and if there was to
be anything but work. they must fol-
low the plan of Kiplings hero and
his fiancee. 'At No. to waltz no
more, but sit in the dusk and spoon"
Miss Howe studied ball room dan
cling with Carlos Sebastian, the noted
teacher of New York, who spent
some of the summer in Chicago, and
she had a course in aesthetic dancing
from q Chicago master who was edu-
Gated in the Russian school of dan