Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-04
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Had a Pleasant Smell.
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Roderick.
"S5ive us an intaduction, RoddyT"
Roddy being either reluctant or I'M
able to perform the rite, Fanchon took
matters into her own hands and was
presently favorably impressed with
Maurice, receiving the information that
his tie had been brought to him by
his papa from Skoone's, whereupon
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 a few minutes later, and SO catholic
was her taste that a ring Of boys quite
encircled her before the musicians In
the yard struck up their thrilling march,
and Mrs. Schotield brought Penrod to
escort the lady from out Of town to
the dancing pavilion.
Headed by this pair, the children
sought partners and paraded solemnly
out of the front door and round a cor
ner OF the house. There they found
the gay marquee, the small orchestra
seated on the lawn at one side Of 1t
and a punch bowl OF lemonade invit-
ing attention under a tree. Decorous-
" the small couples stepped upon the
platform, n after another, and began
to dance.
IFS not much like a children's party
In our day" Mrs. Williams said to
Penrod's mother. Wed have been
playing Quaker meeting, clap in, clap.
out or going to Jerusalem, I suppose
Yes, or postofice and drop the hand
k%erchief,n said Mrs. Schofeid. Things
change so quickly. Imagine asking lit
tie Fanchon Gelbraith to play London
bridge! Penrod seems to be having a
difficult time with her. poor boy. He
wasn't q shining light in the dancing
class
However, Periods difficulty was not
precisely Of the kind his mother sup
posed.
Fanchon was o showing him a
new step, which she taught her next
partner in turn, continuing instruc-
tons during the dancing. The children
crowded the floor, and In the kaleido-
scopic tumble OF bobbing heads and In
termingling figures her extremely diff
ferent style of motion was unobserved
by the older people, who looked on.
nodding time ~beneYolently.
Fanchon fascinated girls as well as
boys. Many OF the former eagerly
sought her acquaintance and thronged
about her between the dances, when.
accepting the Difference due a cosmo-
politan and an oracle of the mode, she
gave demonstrations of the new step
to succeeding groups, protesting as
constituent to find it unknown. 1t had
been aall the go" she explained, at
the Long Shore Casino for fully two
seasons.
She pronounced very ..slow" a fan
cy dance" executed during an In
PERMISSION by Baby R%ennsdale and
George Bassett, giving 1t as her opin-
ion that Miss Rennsdale and Mr.. Bas-
sett were dead ones" and she ex-
pressed surprise that the punch bowl
contained lemonade and not cham
payne.
The dancing continued, the new step
gaining instantly in popularity, fresh
couples adyenturing with every num-
Der. The word sstep'' is somewhat
misleading, nothing done with the feet
being vital to the evolutions intro
duced by Fanchon. Fanchon's dance
came from the orient by a roundabout
way.
Pausing In old Spain, taking on a
Gallo %frankness in gallantry at the
Bal Butler In Paris, combining with a
relative from the south seas encoun-
tered In San Francisco, flavoring itself
with a care free negroid abandon In
New Orleans and accommodating. too,
something in~expressible from Mexico
and South America. 1t kept throughout
its travels to the underworld or to cir.
cles where nature is extremely frank
and rank. until at last 1t reached the
dives OF New York. when 1t Immediate
IL broke out In what is called civilized
society.
Thereafter It soon spread In vari.
ously modified forms-some Of them
dlsinfected-to watering places md
thence, carried by hundreds of older
male and female Fanchons ver the
country. being eagerly adopted every,
where and made wholly pure and re-
snectable be- the snnreme moral axiom