The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-14
LAPS QUICK TO ADOPTLATEST
 JAZZ STEPS
Official Regulation Inn minent as Western Dance Craze Hits To- kio.
By JAMES MCCAIN, International News Service Stah Cof-
 respondent.

ISSIoAASACD'
 Tolzio Nov. 1.-The long-sabred and arrogant1y inquisitive Japanese policemen have another perpEexlhs problem to solve. In Tok1o 1t IS caus- ing more trouble even then the com ica1 chase of the elusive oangeTtoue Tte,la thought" the sE&pboard of Socialism and Bolshevis1n.
 Their difficulty comes from the rapid spread of the jazz germ aooue tt, . tho capital city So ee1p P9puiIr tha IS eam leI e7 walk and all the rest of them that Western dance halls are opening in all sections of the city For the most part he shimmy is not yet danSSso.
 The police now have under consid- eration a set of laws to enable them to control the situation. If the plan goes throug there will De a htiiie aa 10 how close the man can hotd nus partner: bars will be ejected from all dance halls, the dancers will have to stop at 10 o'clock in the eVen1ng' anu dance halls will be so arranged tata' a:4 a nerson on the street cannot see int ting forms through the windows. No, TofSio is not in favcr of the blue laws but the coming of any new dlVeEsloli of the West causes immediate aldrli and fear over the morality of Japan.
 Western dancing was adopted ionS ago hy well-to-do people, part1cuiarly young married couples who nave lived abroad and who nlfngle freely with foreigners here, but the present epidemic is confined to what might be called the middle classes. The men are mostly clerks, actors, young GOV, ernmert officials, newspapermen and musicians The women are mostly girls just out .of school, with noth1ng to do and actresses. Most treQuenly Der pays a monthly membership fee. An outsider, foreigner Of Japanese visiting the club may gain all the benefits for a 50 cent one-nlght nleHl- berShip card.
 Introduction Easy.
 If the visitor is Q foreigner 1t entl- ties him to pick his partner as If they were old acquaintances. I have seen Americans darece more than one dance with a rosy-cheeked, a1mond-eyed change a single word with her. The girls like it; it seems that there is ornething romantic about foxtrotfing down the hall in the arms of an recently arrived from home the g1rls soon detect the latest steps. and be- fore the evening is over the entire gathering will be trying them out.
 If one were to describe these young girls, the American word "fapper" would be enough. In the United States or Japan they're just the same. One by one, as the latest magazines edicts of Western f1apperdlom are cop jed. Less than month ago l saw a young girl in the shopping district; she, just as many others about her, was clad in brightly colored kinono, with all the gay trimmings of summer and with cheeks slightly rouger. But there was something different; it pug zIed me. Turning into a shop behind her in order to get a second look, I discovered the difference. Her hair was bobbed. This was the shock Of sfbNcka almost too much to believe But it has come. Since then I have seen half a dozen of them; soon hobbed hair will be more comm on than their fast-increasing preference for Turkish cigarettes.