ST TO get you into the right
JUST
is frame of mind for what
to follow I've gone to all the trouble of inventing a brand new proverb: "It's a wise woman who gets wise to her own faults."
Not brilliant, perhaps, but very important if we are to remain good friends after you've read and di- gested all the things I have to say. They are not nice, they are not flat- tering, they might-even be called unkind if you didn't happen to be in just the right mood for them. Hence the proverb!
So, bearing all this in mind, would you please hold your chin well up, for that's where you must take what's coming to you! Don't expect one word of praise for your pretty ways; all that you are going to get is a nasty, relentless, reveal
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How long is it since you were told
how divinely you dance? If it is longer than the very last dance—
read this article
To converse properly you lean back from the waist upwards. This makes your tummy stick out and quite prevents those long, smooth, backward steps which you must be able to take.
the
much nicer your evening frock will look too!
Now you may think that I have been altogether too harsh about the possible figure you cut when you're on the floor, but so far not one word have I said which might be taken as a reflection on your actual dancing. That is, I am sure, quite as good as it should be, but how long do your dancing shoes last? Way back in the days when the fox-trot was new and smart you could be considered a good dancer if, at the end of the season, the toes of your shoes were intact and there was a slight rubbing on the
insides. of the heels. I leave that piece of information with
you for your careful consideration!
Probably the most common of you easily and smoothly? Or is it dancing faults comes from the am- just possible that you and he are bition to mix dancing and con- at right angles, looking as though versation, which is possible, but your feet were straining to do some not pretty.
of those fancy cross-over steps? Not that please! It looks terrible and there are bound to be some very awkward moments when you lose your poise, dignity and reputa-
or: full tion as a dancer in a wild scramble to complete a half-right right turn somewhere about same time as your partner. It is perfectly simple to correct
Another standing mistake is to
a good dancer, and the recipe, yourself of this habit. Just give
straight, shoulders down, knees plain dancing and there you are, position makes your rear portion tricks you may have acquired since unless you happen to have the sort stick out in a perfectly hideous
straight, but supple, tummy and This may have been you went to your first dance. Their of partner who forces you into the manner! name may be legion; you may not backward bend by leaning forward all right in the time of the Veleta, seat in, feet near each other and in a straight line, a light left arm and the right position opposite himself. Then you'll have to be but it only leads to trouble in the
then long, smooth, son is in full bloom, so the time has tactful, but a few well-chosen cause of that quick, jerky dancing your partner
eweeping steps, coming right from come to see ourselves as the wall- words should straighten you both should be conspicuous by its neat-
out, to your mutual benefit.
ness. And besides, as you are sup the hip. As you step back, reach flowers see us.
posed to be dancing together, why back with your toes. This looks, not do so?
and is, graceful.
L
OOKING like a good dancer is next in importance to being
ing exposure of all the bad ballroom up acrobatics in favour of good, keep too far away from him. This which never varies, is back
have any at all, but the dancing sea-
In
Public
A
ND WHAT about your knees? They aren't on view, certain-
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The Shoulders
The next time you dance watch yourself for any of these faults, And the very first thing to do is
and if you have any, correct them. Hunched shoulders are the chief to remember that every time you ly, and more's the pity! If they cause of that quick, jerky dancing Dancing should be something take the floor you are really giving were, you'd have to keep them nice that makes dancers look like the more than knowing the right steps à públic performance. You are and straight, which is the way they little figures that used to bob about for the right tunes. It should be not getting paid for it and the should be. Not stiff and rigid, but onlookers are getting a free show, straight and supple, ready to hend on the top of street organs! If a perfect melody of movement.
*you are a shoulder-huncher, force
Remember this, and you will not Just count the yourself to drop them to a nice, only delight your partner but give so you can t on a double allow when necessary.
number of times you and your part-
chest-expanding line. So pleasure to the lookers-on. ance
on the grounds ner knock knees during one dance. that anything you get for nothing If it's more than nought you're well can't be any good!
on the way to becoming that ball- room 'menace the inveterate knee- knocker.
of critt
WORTHY CAUSE
Sale Of Flowers In City To-morrow
If there's one thing more than another which makes the "dancing man's life hideous, it is the girl who mistakes him for a leaning post. This fault isn't going to make your dancing look bad, but it definitely
The Confucian Society of Hong partners 67 won't get you good
Kong are organising a sale of flow ers in aid of their funds, to take place to-morrow, Saturday.
dance.
for the next A man has got quite enough to do to get himself suc- cessfully round the ballroom with- out dragging along the body of his Partner!
In the course of an appeal for support for their very worthy cause, the Society points out that in the You Left Him 28 years of its history, the Society has maintained 30- schools in the Colony for providing free education to the children of poor Chinese.
Spend one whole dance noticing: what you do with your left arm.
Whatever you do, don't let it put a half-Nelson on your partner. The depression and consequent Hugging him affectionately is cer- diminution of income has compelled tainly not helpful to good dancing the closure of some of the schools, and most embarrassing to your but 17 are still maintained, provid fellow-creatures. ing free education for more than Your left arm should rest slight- 2,000 poor children and involving an ly along his arm and your left hand annual outlay of some $80,000, for should lie firmly at the back of Your the provision of which the Society your partner's shoulder. depends entirely upon donations and other hand belongs in his. It is subscriptions, being without proper- only by holding properly that you
will anticipate his lead. ty or endowment funds.
The students of 16 self-supporting schools are to sell flowers in the streets to-morrow in aid of their
ND now a question. How do you stand? Straight in Donations of 35 and upwards will front of your partner and close be acknowledged in the newspapers. enough for him to be able to lead
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