Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-05
IITOING. going, gone" will
r soon be the sad tale told of
~ the shimmy, the toddle and

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~ the shimmy, the toddle and
other fancy wiggle variations of the
terpsichorean art as practiced by the
college youth of America. according
to recent issue OF the Kansas City
Star. From all over the country
comes the news that the naughty
steps must be forgotten, and more
than that, some schools are protest.
ing vigorously against the short,
knee-length skirt, the thin silk stock
ings and even the "vile weed in
cigarets.
At Vassar the girls have gone on
strike against present fashions.
They are wearing long skirts, and
are again exposing to view the ears
hidden so many years from the curl
Gus glances of mere man. They also
wear their hair slicked back in tight
knots.
From the University of Oregon
cmerges the clarion cry, "On with
the dance, but let it be exceedingly
proper"
Drury college students have ruled
that the shoulder of the man when
dancing shall be six inches distant
from his partners and that ortho-
dox Vernon Castle dancing pro-
cedure be followed. To see that the
regulations are carried out, faculty
chaperons are appointed to censor
all dances.
At California extravagances OF the
formal dance are under fire. The
Daily Californian complains that the
expenses of Junior day, celebrated
recently.
Student dances at the University
of Michigan have been called off en-
tirely by the undergraduate senate.
Charges of cigaret smoking, whisky
drinking and general cadishness'
at "hops" were advanced to justify
this ruling.
Toddling has been forbidden at
the University of Wisconsin. A
student plan to reform the entire
campus social life has been concoct-
ed with the women students espe-
cially lined up strongly behind it.
Cheek to cheek dancing at Man
haitian has been prohibited. No long
CT will the agricultural college gal
lants be permitted to whisper fond
words in the ears of their partners
as they glide across the floor.
Chicago university gives the mod
ern fad a more scientific indictment.
At the University Of Missouri the
reform has been extended from i'm
proper manners of dancing to the
short skirt, while the Brown uni
versity Daily Herald comes out with
the statement that "it's time for the
men to act, since the girls and their
mothers won't We don't prophesy
any reform, but we do intend to re-
mind the women and the men what
decent people think of their dress
and dancing"
And at X. Z. there are the official
proclamations by the mems and wo-
mems governing bodies against the
shimmy, toddle, close dancing and
smoking at entrances to buildings on
the campus.
No note of reform comes from the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln,
perhaps for the reason that the wig
Gle variations are not greatly the
vogue. Some of the students tod
die, and there is mild sentiment
against it, but most of the dances
and dancers are. just naturally and
voluntarily circumspect, Gabby is
told.
1VERYBODY else has had his
n say about Main Street" so why
mot Gabby. who feels that she
must speak quickly or forever hold
her peace. This literary season is
over and with the books which
1921 will bring forth Main Street
will probably be among "topiques'
passe.
The book in Gabty's opinion, is
not so much an indictment of Main
Street as of superficial woman.
Carol Kennicott wanted her parties
to be noisy. Her idea of getting the
small towners out of their rut was
to shock them. As Meredith Nichol-
son so well puts it:
"The trouble with Mr.. Lewis's
Carol Kennicott was that she really
had nothing to offer Gopher Prairie
that sensible self-respecting people
anywhere would have welcomed She
was without true vision in any di-
rection. Plenty of men and women