FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1922.
BALLROOM DANCING.
WALTZ, FOX-TROT, & TANGO FOR NEXT SEASON.
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The quiet and gentle authority with which Major Taylor (president of the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers) announced the other day that ballroom dancing for the coming season would
trots, and the tango probably came
room
London.
pass it on with luck to two or three hundred papile.
WAR IN THE FUTURE,
DOOM OF A DREADNOUGHT
FROM THE AIR,
水果
PERSONALITY.
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LIVELY PYTHONS.
MANDA
HEAD KEEPER ATTACKED.
DIG REPTILES FOR 200.
long respcetively. There is no other spoke in the Zoo ne big ne thees.
And they're full of life. They were taken from the steater Marella in specially constructed boxes, wrong out at the parting. They followed by the sad tears of the crew arrived at the Zon at 4 p.m., and then Mr. C. Camp, the brad keeper, learnt
BIG ARM'S SEIZURE.
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the
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Bub Inspector Macdonald asked for two Magistrates to sit on the care, and & remand was accordingly given until to-morrow.
KOTEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
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Tao O P., R.M.B. "Empress of Australis" from Hongkong on Aug 28 arrived at Pancovar s opr Russia "loft Vanusuver for Hongkong, via Japan ports, Shanghai and Manila, on Sept. 7 and is due here on or about
The C.P. R.M.S.Empress of
Sept. 28.
There were some unusually interest- What is personality? Why do some Out clear and ing scenes a few miles off the Isle individuals stand
An indigeation meeting of enakes of Wight recently, when
Hdistinguished from the
ol reat
was hurriedly called for the other M. S.Agamemnon' a pre-war
mankind, and why do we regard others night at the Sydney Zoo to discuss the with attacked by W88 Dreadnought,
as mere components of a general mass! arrival of two pythons from Johore. of 15 aircraft.
Nearly 400 bombs were dropped on asks A Woman of the World" in The meeting was not open to the press, rounds of ammunition on board the consist quite simply of valses, fox. and around her, and her deeks were the Woman's Magazine, How is it that but it ended in hisses for the python.. "Onlee." The police found the awept by machine-gun fire. The bere and there is one who follows out big Bite Drive. Jealousy baa eaten fendant claimed, while searching pas- from Jobore and a decision to start a contraband in a trank, which the de- as attack was a practice affair, and the an original course, while others always into the tails of the serpents, for the engers luggage on board the ship a relief to the small non-technical į bombs, of course, were dummies, and find their excuse for being even as all new animals are 16 feet and 10 feet early this morning.
with the exception of a slightly section of bis audience, who dreaded battered superstructure and damaged the rest in the spirit which say to bear these familiar names replaced paintwork the "Agamemnon" return "everybody's doing it," whether it by half a dozen others more remoted to port as cound as the left. But and illusive. The occasion was a conunder war conditions instead of smoke gre a of dance teachers in the ball-bombs there would be hundreds of
of the Holborn Restaurant, pounds of high exq osives, and judged meet abides when the peculiar type The idea of personality in those wo by the
results the "Agamen- Each of (be 150 or so danen teachers nau" would have been several times of beauty or the aggressive self-asser gathered there would be likely, esid blown up by bombs dropped directly tion have faded out of mind. One the president, to impart the knowledge up n her from a height which would recalls a charm of manner, a gracious something.
welcome, of right and spontaneous Ho bad always been under the im they had gained to order dance tea render aircraft virtually secure from allusion to one's own work of interests, pression that reptiles in the winter chers on returning to their native the firs of her guns. heath. Each of there in turn would The trials were carried out by the that come only from those who de time ware not quit themselves, being Royal Air Force in co-operation with not treat their flows se a mere in a state of semi consciousness. So. the navy against wireless controlled crowd. With it, to, will probably with this belief, it was with a crtain be a sprinted some detail as to dress amount of self-confidence that he put The tone of anthority used in ships. The bombs used were of a new referring to the future was probably type, weighing nine pounds, which, on or surroundings that could have be his hand into the box.
But the python had long given up not misplaced. It only remained, striking the water or deck, burst into longed to ne one clac. Therefore, to demonstrate the valse, white smoke, but are otherwise harm-
On the other hand are those who the habit of being semi-conscious in A myeterious aca voyage the fox trot, and the tango as less. The trials have been primarily seem to want to destroy anything that winter. approved and standardised by the ranged, the Air Ministry states, to would differentiate them from their and suspicions travellings in weird experts, and this was done by Major test the accuracy with which bombs follows. Theas are they who follow boxes had taught it to keep both eyes Taylor holding the centre of the floor can be dropped en moving targets any fashion adopted by the rest. No and its mouth open. So when it saw in the curious shifting erose-lights of from varying heights, ranging from matter what are their own propor- the band in the box it ebut the the large ballroom by daylight, jazz, point blank to 8,000 feet.
tions, if skirts are short they wear mouth, with Mr. Camp's thumb inside music coming discreetly from a small The practice furnished
them equally, if nature has endowed it, and kept it shut.
Outside the box Mr. Camp was in crchestra in a corner, and the vincing demonstration of the eff them with ample facial features, they circle of teachers revolving round him ciency of the modern bomber and the will put on the smallest and bardest a state of intensy excitement. He following his movements and jotting high degree of accuracy which recent of round toques, They read the rame tugged and kicked, while be revised down the gist of his cominente in sight devices have produced. The papers as the other folk in their street; his ideas about snakas being semi-Defendants in the above proceedings notebooks.
extent to which the aeris! attacks they join with their neighbours in conscious in the winter tin, and in restraining them frons further publishing and eirentinting enples of the back rutitled Personality comes into this an into could have been effectively met by grumbling at the butcher's or the when at last he got his thumb Where the Strange Trails (ie Down" by E all other fous of tracking. Major counter-measures, however was not greengrocer's prices; and avoid to the back again be feared to look at Alexander Powell, published by them in New York and London, on terms which indude. en rgatio way among other ilings, payment of the costs of Taylor's performance in its neatners, shows. The "Agamemnon" played uttermost any thinking on their own it. He made an its preci-iou, and its absciute control an entirely passive part; she was a account as to whether they agree with for the casualty room of the Zoo, the Plaintif Company of and incident to the of the situation was a perfectly calcu- battleship without a crew; and the their daily journal, or any effort as to where the wound was dressed. He proceedings and of advertising this raties, ibey desire in tender publicly to the Plaintiff lated pizca of ast. How good he was, fact that the huge vessel ascertaining whether there way be left a trail of blood along the path, ammay their sincere aualugies for the great- was clearly seen when anyone else a camed and maneuvred without a tradespeople who are offering cheaper up the steps, and all the way you and untrue statements and criti- to Mr. la Sotel's office. Luckily if the Plaintiff Company and it took over for the purpose of giving single human being on board, entirely commodities in another district.
| administration contained in Chipičm 11 and pythons are not venomous, though 111 of the book. in rreponse to wireless control.
villainous, and their bits is just a biten allel to the libels in quation ne The Defendants, having had their atten- without the poison.
safisha that there is no foundation for the defsinntory atatements complained of, which were published by them without adequate regret that these statements should have been investigation, and they express their great published in sink Ested to the public by
him a rest.
4 con-
THE PERSONAL TOUCH,
loped.
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The main features of each of the operated from the destroyer "Truant" From their standpoint, it is dances (again mercifully for the no-was not the least notable feature of " 'peculiar" or "add" to wear gowns
When they opened the door both expert) seemed to differ scarcely at all the sportacie.
or hats that are not upon the conven: pythons were looking for Biglit, so das from the dancea na practised already The Brst operation represented an tional lines of the moment. If every of the keepers threw bags (vet their by the most graceful of present-day attack upon a capital ship by one else in the cncial circle has an heads. They amused themselves for dancers The society has set its acroplanes flying beyond the effective"At home" day, it is something quite the rest of the evening trying to un- countenance very definitely against muge of guns and carrying heavy earthing to ask a few friends to supper ravel the jute mystery in which they rowdices and exaggeration. The bombr. It was launched by four Deat intervals. And it is positively en udduly found themselves enve keynote of each of the dances is dis. | Haviland. "9's," which came from reprehensible to go to the markets cretion As regards the togo, the the aerodrome at flosport, flying on and come home with bulging bags and The pythons are, now in a specially most important thing was obviously high that they could searly be de parked brakets.
Even the war has not wholly effaced/constructed reptile bous with a dead logs to sell by Public Auction, to standardise its movements. The tected until the sun glint d upon Committen has done this along slightly their planes. Dropping to 8,000 feet that curioue idea that prestige le ia enakee, but they are passing the time tree in it. They are not near the other different lines from those advocated above the "Agamemnon," steami' some way associated with carrying trying to chake the old dead tree, A SATURDAY, September 10, 1922, by M. de Rhypal the expert from at ten kruts, they discharged their parcels.
pair of bad-tempered, cantankerous Paris, who lectured in London the bombe in buzets. The first direct hit
Then one turns to the hundreds of females altogether. other day. But the difference is very was made by a bomb which fell upon novels and the hundreds of pictures slight. They postulate five steps, the foredeck. Again the aeroplanes turned out annually. They are just whereas he ad reduced it to full, swung around and launched their last reflections of what has been written The fifth, however, can be regarded bombs, and one of these made toother and painted many times.
Mrs. Winslow, Major D. L. Hard as a luxury. In both cases it is simple direct bit amidships; of the other George Eliot to Jean Ingelow is a longing, Mr. G. S. Archbath, Mr. and Mrs. to learn and is essentially gracelul many were so close that with the rp; Rosa Bonheur and Lady Butler, H. E. Goldsmith, Mr. R. A. North and attractive. Every effort is to be heavy explosives employed undrar on the other hand, have qualities of and Mr. J. F. Swindells, returned to made to popularine it, and it is to be conditions the battleship would. have strength and vigour in common. But the Coloup from Australia by tho hoped that this will be achieved.
suffered heavily,
ench had in her something to express 8.s. "Yoshino Maru." Mr. and M.s. that no one else could have recorded Trenchard Davis, of Shanghai, who either upcn paper or canvas, and for are well-known in the Colony, were that reason each makes her own also passengers on the same steamer, appeal.
The valse stays as it is-or rather as it has been for some years combination of the Boston, a hesita tion, but only a slight one, and the Blow walking step. Again the dares, as demonstrated by the pre-ident, was quiet and unexaggerated.
The fox-trot also stays, but with light modifications. It was notice able that Major Taylor danced it on his toes. A great many people dance nowadays with their heels to the ground. He made it into a long, ever gliding danco, king as the best dancris always do, very long step A note that will be of interest to actual practitioners of the dance is that the time should be (to express it as beat 1 way) "one two one" and not, as is often seen, "one one two," The accent ahould be on the last and not the frat beat.
Major Taylor added a few remarks on the ideal band combination for tangoes and fox-trots. According to
From
Later in the day the De Havilands laun had another attack which was even more surecesful. Flying at about 8 000 for they made arme six direct hits. An RA F. officer watching the To come down to less ezelted practice stated that the etios of the vocations, are there not the milliners, bits was comparable with those of a the dressmak rs, the fancy workers, battleship firing 15-jach shells at a who can take the same materials as range of fifteen or sixteen thousand others are using, and who can give yarila.
The most spectacular operation was one which represented a raid by fast macbias carrying light bombs upon enemy airesafe ca rier. The attack
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wooped down a on the battleship | Mere eclf assertiven EB until they were between two and three personality. No ameut of adver hundred feet above the decks and tisement, direct or indirect, can niaku then simply pepp red her with bombs, a man or woman other than he or she The hits in this practice were made is. When the astute Preis agent and when the aeroplanes were travelling at photographer can no longer secure a speed of 130 miles an hour. Only reclame for their subject, and another three bombs missed.
one more pushful still has come into limelight, there wilt bo complete
him a quartet of plano, violio, saxo- SL SHED WITH KNIVES. forgetfuless on the part of the public
phone, and the "drum, cymbals, and cigar-box afleir" is the best.
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WORK THAT FAILED.
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De presed through two years of un-
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TRAGEDIES IN FIJI.
TWO WIVES DEAD.
of all and any who has failed to reach the indefinable mark.
Many are barely conscious of their own powers of impressing others, or of the grace and dignity that always
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