New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

own lessons Gin lunch hour, / suppose; they
certainly had no other time). That one over
there, for misunderstanding her hand toward
a verv scrawny maiden with pink hair or
picturesque Italian gentleman IN cuols'e
shirt: couldn't tell which-has been teaching
dancing for fifteen years and, like you-again
che beaned at me-'came here to polish Qh.
She's been here six weeks now-our course Is
eight weeks--and, 70 say truth, we've been
irving TO find out ever since she came Just
what she's been teaching during those fifteen
wears and we haven't found out YETI Believe
me. she'll be teaching the aspiring turrets OF
Pnktown something when she goes back this
time. if she gets the town calling to the birds
and the bees with the same abandon that she
was giving it at that moment.
Mrs Principal went on: Some OF our pu-
nils come TO stay a day or a week but they
usually end by staying the whole course and
getting diploma signed by Mr.. Castle him
selF-think of that for Pnktownl Take that
brunette in the corner. for instance. She came
here two months ago from some town way
down in the Southwest, with the idea that she
was going TO be a second Pavlowa in a week.
But she simply can't get a diploma; she hasn't
worked enough yet. Mr.. Castle says so, and
he is the law. She's got to work She can
do it. No one knows better than that any old
carthorse can be taught to dance'-Mrs Prin-
cipal sighed here a long, fat sigh-'but she's
got to get over the idea that this is a society
tea ard realize it's a serious dancing college;
that's all
u interrupted here and asked her, since she
seemed so informing. whether the demand for
teachers was IS great as ever or whether the
decline Of the dancing craze WASN'T affecting
the school. She assured me that it didn't in
the least, that the only difference was that
better teachers were being demanded; that the
time had eore by when any little Wisp OF pref
tiness could bob her hair and charge SIS
lesson FOR looking as bored as Mrs. Castle.
Nowadays, quoth the lady "a teacher
must be able 70 teach, and this is where we
each said teachers to teach. They come to
rs, usually after having tried and generally
tailed At every other business under the civil
lied sun. From every part Of the globe they
fock to Castle House-California. Oregon,
MdiUC anu C@lldld. llcy -OlNN NidilfDl4iS ~
be taught 10 teach their home towns to fox
trot. They think its going to be a perfectly
simple thing to 10, just question Of dancing
around once or twice with Mr. Castle; but
they soon change their minds. Then we have
a good many exhibition dancers. That girl
over there, for instance, is dancing at some
beach every night, and that ore there at a
cafe We have quite number like that
dancing at night the dances they learn in the
daytime
THE Neutrality-suspicious. DAY
Can you imagine" Clarssa cried vehement
ly, "pirouetting on one toe all morning, tango
ing all afternoon and fox trotting and doing
gymnasium stunts in between; then taking
a trolley car, l suppose. or a jitney to some
scrubby pleasure park and dancing for gaping
crowd all night? Ny idea of no way to earn
a living But that's nothing il you've a soul
for art and the highest and best in terpsichore.
lust then the poetica teacher came out of
her trance and stopped the class, who were
all by that time simply brooks Of running per
spiration. 1t must take lot of imagination