The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-18

from the hips. The nearer the dane
ers bring themselves to the peculiar
flop of Charlie, the nearer they are to
getting the correct finish on the new
dance.
A little ancient history on this dance
is not uninteresting. The one-step and
the Castle-Walk were made over into
the Chaplin walk, just as some more
ancient dances were made over into
the one-step and the Castle walk. The
characteristic movement of this dance
is the drawing back of the head and
the launching of the shoulders.
They tell US that in the dance halls
of the Barbary Coast, Seattle. or Alas
kan mining camps that movement orig
mated. There money was free and
drinks were too. The movement of
the head and shoulders in those days
was performed only by the woman,
and was an invitation to the waiting
dancer that he might have the next
dance. That dance was the old, ia
mous-or infamous-totelo, called by
some the Spanish totelo, though its
origin was far from Spain.
Now this totelo had its origin, not
in a dance hall at all, but in the cotton
fields of the south before the war
When the negro women carried their
burdens on their heads, they crooned
to themselves n song which ran like
this: Tote along. tote a-l-o-n-g" as
That phrase developed the name tote
10, and also the motion of the head
that went with it. The trot grew out
of the totelo, the oEe-step out of the
trot, and the Chaplin walk out of the
one-step.
At the masGue dance last week, one
of the men danced it all evening. 1t
killed his disguise in an instant. 1t Is
not cultivated art with him. and he
probably didn't know he was dancing
the very newest step; for he does it
by nature. and he did it long before
the dance was ever invented
Professor and Mrs. Z. D. Schon-
berger will entertain at the annual
party tonight for the members of the
Phi Kappa Delta fraternity, at their
home, 1909 College avenue. The or
ganization is an honorary forensic fra
ternity with a chapter in Washburn
college. About fifty guests will at
tend the party.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Crosman will
leave next week for Lansing, Mich, to
make their home.
Capt. and Mrs. A. B. Deutsch will
leave Thursday to spend six or seven
weeks in San Antonio, Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guilford Dudley will
go to Kansas City to see Grumpy" at
the Schubert theater this week.
Mrs. w. H. Rutter and Mrs. George
Hoyes left Monday for Pawnee, Okla,
called by the illness of their brother,
Mr.. Lee Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs W. H. McKirahan and
their family, of La Junta. Colo, have
returned to their home, after spending
the past two months with Mrs. Eliza
beth Wilson.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Eng
lish Lutheran church will be enter
tanned Wednesday afternoon at $50
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Amos
Rabe, 1927 Polk street.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the First Methodist church
will meet Wednesday afternoon at 8
o'clock with Mrs. c. E. Bascom, 1900
Harrison street.
Mrs. 1. H. Mahin, of Smith Center,
is ill in Topeka. She underwent an
operation at Christ's hospital. Senator
Mahin is in Topeka to be with her.
Miss Besse Donuhue has returned
to Denver Colo. She has been visiting
Mrs. I. F. Felix.
Mrs. A. ]. Cole is recovering from
an injury she received in a fall last
week She broke one of the bones of
her hand.
Mrs. ]. E. Thompson. who is in Cali
fornia with her daughter, Mrs. J. C.
Gafford, is improving after an illness
in Pasadena Mrs Gafford is in Los
Angeles and she and her mother will
remain in the west a few weeks longer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Creary and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Brant have returned
from Wamego, where they were called
by the death of Mr.. Joseph Tauer, the
father of Mrs. Creary and Mrs. Brant.