News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-09-29
those eyes glow with that light always

your hair Is pretty, Holdy. Dont
forget vhat you said yesterday!
Roderick likewise blushed.
Maurice Levy, captivated by the new
fomers appearance, pressed close TO
lloderick.
"Give us an intaduction, IsoddyE
Roddy being either reluctant or I'M
.ble to perform the rite, Eanchon 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 Skoones, whereupQn
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, ana so catholic
was her taste that Il ring of boys quite
encircled her before the musicians In
the yard struck up their thrilling march,
md Mrs. SchOfield 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 cor
her of the house. There they found
the gay marquee, the small orchestra
seated on the lawn at one side of 1t
ind a punch bowl Of lemonade inv1t-
Ing attention under tree. Decorous-
ly the small couples stepped upon the
platform, one after another, and began
to dance.
"It's not much like u children's party
in our day." Mrs. Williams said to
Periods mother. WED have been
playing Quaker meeting, clap ill., clap
out or going to Jerusalem, suppose"
Eyes, or postotfice and drop the hand
kerchief," said Mrs. Schofeld. 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 shining light in the dancing
class"
However, Periods difficulty was not
precisely of the kind his mother sup
posed.
FanchOn was soon showing him a
new step, which she taught her next
partner in turn, continuing instruc-
lions 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 benevolently.
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 "all the CO." 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 Rennsdale and
. George Bassett, giving it 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 adventuring with every mum
ber The word "step" 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 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
Giles 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 ant
thence, carried by hundreds of Older
male and female Fanchons over the
country, being eagerly adopted every
where and made wholly pure and re
spectacle by the supreme moral axiom
that anything is all right If enough
people do it.
Everybody was doing it.
Not quite everybody. 1t was per
haps some test of this dance thai
earth could furnish no more grotesqut
sight than that of children doing it.
Earth, assisted by Fanchon, was fur
nishing this sight at Periods party
BY the time ice cream and cake arriv
ed about half the guests had ethel
been initiated into the mysteries by
Fanchon or were learning by imita
ton, and the education of the othel
| half was resumed with the dancing