, 1921-12-30
Dance Styles Dire Things

The rnai stenwandins. triple
rivstsd. steel-sacketcd. ail-Americsn
big bertha has been BANNED right
into tho midst Of the iast-ditch stand
OF those exotic. s~tarryeycd feminine
representative u our younger gener-
sticn-ths flappers. The genealogical
processes Responsible for the word,
flapper. r as hazy as the morning.
after memory OF the oiden days. but
the word has been predicated into n
best society. The fapper has been
mhiigned IN many instances b has
been put through her PAGES like a pet
pony by q number Of irresponsible
Iyoung novelists. who have sought TO
capitalize upon their own petting ex-
perienees by feeding the public n little
clean dirt. She has been mnds to
whiri q senseiess and thoughtiess track
through III slaxed pages OF magazines
with cardinal covers She has flicked
the gray ashes from the tip OF her lit
tie cigarette. shaken her little Dutch
'mpudentiy and lifted her laughing
Ups for the deliberate kiss with a
recklesznens donated her by the writer
who was responsible for her creation.
And shoulder blade By some OF u
more up-front folks al a result. In
moro instances than not she has not
merited the frigid reception.
Dance Changes.
But this Is no defense OF the little
lady. Perhaps she has not meritod
the air she has been given. but how
ever that may be. she Is slated for
the skids now with a vengeance
Noted authorities and observers IN the
realm OF personal oscillatlon-the mod
ern dance-have sounded the death
kn4ii. Word comes from the highest
1mong them that the shimmy. the
toddle. the Chicago and all the crawl
steps have finally md completely
checked out, and here. the browning
wallop, that dancing is now decidedly
conversational.
And, kind mastersy( when they put
conversation as one OF the prerequi-
sites Of the paraffined floor and the
bnying trombone. h flapper Is MS
done as a pile OF last nights cigar
ashes. II usually falls out that tha
representative fiapper isn't sure
whether Hawthorne r. a brand OF
Goldfish or tho name OF a stop on q
pipe organ. Her chief contribution
TO conversation, as such, is usually
am toll tho cock-eyed world I'm
say So and BE sure to call me up
some time and according TO the ten
cts of the latest controversial snari
In the terpsiehorean saturnaha she'd
have about ms much chance Of keeping
her head above tho CONSEQUENTIAL winter
level as n duck with tho stringhalt
and a leaky fueelagc.
The dance has had a long and iurid
history. There are certain PECULIAR
ties traceabio from the first glad leap
of the first 1.-THE wood uymph. The
first dances wer, OF h solo variety
According TO the best preserved data
they were executed by smooth, white
.undresscd young women. who wore
leaves and flowers snrlanded about
the brows and NOT much else. They
were usually watched by strange per-
nag with human torsos and cloven
hoofs, who parted their mustachios
about h reod OF n Lutte and trilied
~staccato arpeggios into the sunbeams
that siIvered through the foliage round
about the sylvan counterpart of the
modern lodgeroom danca hall.
Evolution of Dance.
Conversation was as missing as di.
gestion in middle life ut these par
tics. but when the curtain WAS rum
down on tho party all hands, including
the. funny flute player. gathered at
the trough OF some ripping, singing
rlvuiet. to take a drink-a habit that
has persisted 10 the present, with GER
tain notifications.
; AS the years hurtied by. and peo-
pic discovered that dancing naked
in the cool morning air brings on