Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-30
Do YOU SILT?
IT'S new DANCE
Rival of Fox Trot and Heslta-
ton Found in the Wilds
of China.

Chicago. Ill. Jan. S0.-A new rival
of the fox trot. hesitation and one-step
was introduced to Chicago yesterday,
II came across the Pacific ocean in
motion pictures, which will be shown
all over the country in few weeks,
and is known as the Chinese silt
dance" That's the way it is done, too
ON stills about three feet high.
! The movies" depicting the dance
( are among those taken by Professor
( George a. Dorsey, head of the Field
Museum and professor of anthropol-
/ ogy of the University of Chicago. He
| is venturiag into all sorts of out-of-
/ the-way places in Japan, China, India
and the South Seas, his purpose being
to obtain data for the university. curl
osities for the museum and movies"
for the United Photo Play company
The first 10000 feet of film he Sc
cured arrived in Chicago this week and
was shown for the first time yesterday
morning at a private exhibition given
by the motion picture concern. One of
the most interesting features is the
portrayal of the "stilt dance filmed
in an interior province of China far
away from the beaten track of the
tourist.
II is danced something like this:
Enter a Chinese girl on stills,
waving a silken cloth in each hand
and swaying her body to the beat
ing of tom-toms. She proceeds to
the center of the floor, whereupon
there enters a young man, also on
stills He walks about her in a
circle several times, she swaying
from one silt to the other the
while. Then both exit together.
Some of the spectators observed
that, following the public exhibition OF
the pictures, sitting parties" may
usurp the place of the dances of Chi
cago and other cities. DO you stilt?''
may be a question oft repeated on the
dancing floor. while it is possible that
the solemn "poom, pOom!" of tomtoms
viii replace This is the Life and
similar tunes.
Many other interesting sights" are
shown in the films. A striking one
is the happening OF a whale by Jap !
anese fishermen. The entire capture
and killing OF the whale-from the
time he Is first sighted until he lies I
on the beach under the knives OF the I,
blubber cutters is displayed. \
unique ceremony of the process is the /
hosting of the japanese flag on the .
whales body after he comes to the /
surface dead.
Other scenes portray women pearl /
divers at work near Kikamato, Japan,
giant monoliths in Mongolia and the
life of the people of Nara, the gar
den OF Japan
At the present time Professor Dor
sey is in India. He has completed his
work in China and Japan. His re-
turn TO the United States viii be made
by way Of Borneo, Sumatra, Java,
Australia, New Guinea and Celebes.
The mulberry, "wisest of trees" as
Pliny termed it, really likes" London
and fruits profuseIy even in the
grounds of the CharterhCuse. at murky
Smichfeld LONDON mulberry trees
are mainly derived from fad OF
James 7, who wanted to found a silk
growing industry With the proverb
al folly of q pedaut, the British Solo
non introduced the black mulberry,
lisliked by silkwOrms, instead OF the
white variety. which forms their food.
The black mulberry had been planted
by Cardinal Pole at Lambeth in 1905,
md there were still older specimens
n the garden of Syon House Accord
ng to q pretty Greek legend, ali null
berries were originally white, bur
nulb- rry tree was growing beside
-Ninny's tomb" when Pyramus and
Thisbe died there, and the blood OF
he Ioveds turned the fruit to its pres
mt color.