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Tho letter from "A Peers" in The Times denouncing in the strongest terms the favourite dances of the modern ball- room, such as the "Tango," the Turkey Trot" and the Boston, marks the ex- plosion of a storm which has long been impending, and which has been fore shadowed by many allocutions at dancing- school displays and many anathemas in dancing periodicals. These now American dances, if their opponents are so bo believed, are not only devoid of beauty. they even smack of impropriety.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 17mm, 1918.

This is not by any means the first time that such things have been said about ballri novelties. "A Peoress" her- soit tells us of the shocks her grandmother felt at the first sight of the polka, which in its unbridled beginninga was a folk: annce of Bohemia, just as the "Tango is a folk-dance of Spanish America. Io 1944, when the polka first came to Londen and inspired a craze which neither the "Boston"-vor the Turkey Trot" is likely to rival, the Illustrated London Feus felt it necessary to warn thom who wished to dances it that there should be no stamping of heels or toes, or kicking of legs in sharp angles forward.

"This may do very well." it declared, at the threshold of a Bohemian auberge, but in inadmissible in the salons of London or Paris."

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The waltz, too, which a contributor to the correspondence on this subject now describes as "a stolid procession circling slowly round a room,' was on its appari- tion in 1818 at Almack's famous dancingİ rooms stigmatized us a licentious scandal'; and it is doubtful whether it. would have boon accepted at 11 in polite circles but for the social autocracy of the Tsar of all the Russias, who was then in England, and who gave it the support of his per sonal example. This led Byron in some famous verses to deplore that in the "voluptuous waltz "...

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80 perhaps this Audacity, nothing worse is to be feared from the fashion of clasping one's partner vis-à-vis which has been brought in by the Turkey Trot." It would be difficult, as a matter of fact, to find any period when suspicions of this kind were not expressed about fresh developments of dancing, for even Tabourot, writing in the 18th cen- tury of the volte, which was the ancestor of our waltz, asks indignantly "whether it be decorong for a young girl thus to tride, and whether in the etraddle and

health bo not volte honour and

There appears to be no hazarded noed, then, take top violent alarm when once again our own day the cry of decadence in ball-room fashions is raised; for, as has been seen, most of the dances we now regard as decorous to the pitch assailed as the height of lioened.

to dance for fun and not for display is The view that the general style of our normal nad incradicable, and for the dancing is deteriorating is, however, moment at any rate it is too strong to be plausible enough to

consideration, resisted. H-frolic-sometimes degenerates Dancing always reflects the manners of into rowdiness, this is mainly due to the the age.

The age of Marguerite de abolition of the Master of Ceremonies Valois, when Tabouret wrote, combined at public balls. What is needed in oor- rare magnificence of dress with rare free-tain quarters is a modern Beau Nash to dom of behaviour; it is not surprising, discipline twentieth-century therefore, that the worthy Canon was effectually as the King of Bath" did distressed at what he saw in its ball his turbulent west-country squires. This rooms. Later, when le grand siècle" would at least put a stop to horse-play, in France and the "Augustan age in But for a more sedate and gracious school England had made an elaborate science of dancing we must wait until we haye of etiquette, the dance underwent a trans- formation and the dignified intricacies & more fastidious care for manners; the is hardly to be attained without the of the minuet replaced the rollicking other. branler and gaillardes of earlier periods. No time spent on the study of dancing and deportment was reckmed as wasted, and, as late as the days of Turvey-drop, was still the crown of when eleganca' female perfection, each pupil of the dancing-master was expected to be a Taglioni, and to learn the five positions as carefully as a première danseuse.

Such a state of things is inconceivable in our age, which Mr. Max Beerbohm bas dubbed that of the decline of the Graces." Whether we regret it. or not

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Teased into it, Jones had gone with his wife on an excursion to the realm of bargains, and in the great building, with its many departments (says the Festern Mail), he had become separated from his better half. For an hour at least he remained lounging impatiently at the junction of many ways, where lifts, stairs, and passengers met, and then, tired and angry, he approached the shop

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Sir," he said to the frock-conted and suave attendant in tones of righteous indignation, "I've lost my wife."

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ENGLISH AS SHE 18 SPOKE "English as she is spoke" on the other side of the Channel has called forth the ire of a Frenchman, who insists that the noties put up at the Louvre on closed days for the benefit of English tourists—viz.; "Way in not allowed." should be replaced by No Admittance." This critical Gaul has evidently never seen the placard at another of the Paris Museums bearing the cryptic words "Enter to not," which apparently intend to convey the same

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Per Luchow, from Shanghai, Mr. and Mrs. Ferrier, Mrs. Seth, Mrs. Stafford, Mr. Brown, Mr. Oshoran and Mr. Ashoan, Per Atlantique,_for_Hongkong, from Marseilles, Mr. R. P. Leanint; from Colombo, Mr R. F. P. Beyls; from Singapore, Mr. W. H. T. Beanas. Mr.

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of association up to date, it was proposed restrict the directors horrowing powers, which were at present unlimited. to two-thirds of the nominal amount of the capital. Provision was also made for the appointment and payment of com- mittees of the directors and for the hold- ing of annual instead of half-yearly. Clarke; from Saigon, Mr. Mayete and general meetings. He concluded by

Per Paul Lecat, for Hongkong, from proposing a resolution for the adoption of the report and accounts and the Yokohama, Mr. M. Potell, Mr. J. payment of the dividend and bonus Baptisto: from Kobe, Mr. Dubuffet. Mr. Ebrahalyniec, Mr. Nassan, Mr. Saka- mentioned.

guchi, Mr. and Mrs. Nashizuma-Oki- Matsubara, Mr. Suzuchi, Mr. and Mrs. The Chairman, in reply to a question, Tsuy-Miyamati, Mr. and Mrs. Izuni. stated as regarded the construction of their Tayura, Mr. Yazumoto, Mr. Izumi, Mr. now cables, it would be very nawise to let and MTB. Muire-Hishiyuchi-Doi; from their traffic fall back for the want of Shanghai, Mme. de Silva, Mr. Ritter and proper cable facilitics, and they could buy, Mr. Babond and hoy, Mr. B. Israel, not stand still and await the develop Mr. Tyler and boy, Capt.: Pidsey_and ment of wireless telegraphy, which might

Mr. Francis A. Bevan seconded the motion.

world's traffic. Bo far as he was aware, nothing had occurred in the past year in connection with wireless telegraphy to The motion was carried unanimously: affect the company's income. and resolutions were afterwarde passed re-electing the retiring directors and auditors and approving the proposed new regulations of the company.

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or might not compete with them for the boy, Mr. Jebsen and boy, Miss Wood, } THE Motor-ship

Miss Adamson, Mr. A. Hansen, Mr. W.THE Ehrenstein, Mr. Mohkirsen, Mr. A Marcel, Mr. Olléger. Miss Tommava, Mr. baying arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby Eynard, Mrs. R. Connoly and infant, informed that their Goode, with the exception of Mme. Gibort and infant, Mr. Jensen, Mr. Oplura, Treasure, and Valitables, are being lauded Craisson, Mme Duplessis and 3 infants, and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or Mme. Delante, Mr. Bouguri, Mr. Boutier, extra bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Per Tengo Maru, for Hongkong, from Kowloos, und West Point todowns, whence Mr. Jenn Cousse and Mr. D. M. Eynard. Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., San Francisco, etc., Mr. A. S. Anderson, delivery may be obtained. is impossible to expect her to return in

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· MARK TWAIN'S FIRST EARNINGS. The Chairman stated that the gross modern young man. It. is with his full

A friend of Mark Twain (says Tit Bits) Clarke, Mr. John English, Mr. Tomas Evangelista, Mr. G. Felices and 2 children, approhation that dancing has become revenue for the year 1912 amounted to more athletic; and it is only, it appears $747,000, showing an increase over that once asked him if he remembered the first Mr. S. Felices, Mr. H. Felices, Mr. G. W. from the present correspondence; since it for 1911 of $58,000, while the gross ex-money he earned. has done so that he has been willing to penditure for the past year was within a "Yes," he said; it was at school, and Fenolu, Miss P. Frank, Mr. P. W. Fuller, Mies Lulu Fuller, Mr. W. Greene, Mr. grace the dancing floor at all.

few hundred pounds of that for 1911. very painful recollection it is, too. It is certain that dancing will not be The net profit for the past half-year was, There was a rule in our school that any E. Randolph Hix, Mr. Norman Doyle, is every day more hostile to the care for amount brought forward, there remained or knife, would be chastised publicly Mr. M. Koomen, Mrs. P. B. Lard, 2 elaborately studied by a generation which roundly, £200,000, and after adding the boy marking bis desk, either with pencil Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Katz, Mrs. F. Kerr, fore the whole school or pay a line of children and servant, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Even if it be true that an available balance of over £262,000. appearances.

The usual quarterly interim dividends five dollars. Besides the rule there was Louder, Mr. F. Luchsingor, Mrs. Seth few

studying the young Tango," just as a few used to study of 2s. 6d. per share were paid during the a ruler; I knew it, because I had felt it; Mann, Miss D. Mann, Mre. S. Mangnera, Mr. C. Marty, Mr. Jno, A. Merrill, Mr. the Cake Walk the "Tango." is not past year, and it was now proposed to it was a darned hard one, tea.

One day I had to tell my father that 1. Ortigas, Master I Ortigus, Mr. Wm. likely any more than the cake walk to distribute a like amount, making a total survive. The days when Mme. Sacré dividend of 5 per cent, for the year. It had broken the rule, and had to pay a L. Parsons, Mr. R. W. Randolph, Mr. V. was also proposed to pay a bonus of fine or take a public whipping, and he Reyes, Mr. E. Rivera, Mrs. G. Sagusta, could make young men of fashion pass

Mr. M. Salva, Mr. C. Sievert, Mrs. Lota! hours in the study of the figuration of the per share, making a total distribution of said:-

Sam, it would be too bad to have the Smith, Miss Ethel B. Smith, Mies Callie new "Lancers quadrille are not going 7 per cent. for 1912. After making the to return. The future will more probably usual additions to the reaintenance, ships, name of Clemens disgraced before the Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Schneider, H lie with that tendency to

Mr. J. G. Schneider, Jr., Miss Dorothy which insurance, and

depreciations funds, whole school, so I'll pay the fine.

Starr, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Thompson, has replaced the graceful" Barn Dance," £100,000 of the revenue balance had been I don't want you to lose anything, so come by the elementary Two Step, and transferred to the general reserve fund, upstairs."

"A few minutes later I came down with Mr. W. A. Todd, Miss A. E. Vaughan, which finally, by the invention of the making, with the contribution for the "One Step," has reduced dancing to previous six months, a total addition a bad feeling and the five dollars, and I Miss T. Wellyoung, Mrs. and Miss R. simple prance round the room. The next to that fund for-1912 of £175,000, against decided that as I had been punished Ynchausti. stage would appear to be "Blind Man's £125,000 in 1911. On the other hand, the once, and got used to it, I would not Buff," which was, we believe, & popular general reserve fund had been debited mind getting the other licking at school. feature of Charles the Second's Court with £50,000 as a further provision on So I did, and kept the five dollars,"

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POLITICS IN THE "HOME,

1

But

Another influence which has reached making a total provision against de-

The militant suffragists and Mr. Lloyd the ball-room is the subtle permeation of preciation of £200,000, which was practi all our way of life by the American sense cally the amount of depreciation ou George between them have a great deal Since that date, hoy more to answer for than they wot of, as of the dignity of bustle. It was because December 31 lást,

had farther the following story shows (says the Daily the bands began to play so briskly that it

the depreciation ever, became necessary, if waltzes were to be increased by about £17,000. The general Dispatch), The eleven-year-old daughter danced at all, lo adopt the "Boston" reserve fund had also been debited with of a well-known novelist who, it must be step in order to keep pace with the music. £86,704, the amount expended up to the explained, disagrees most profoundly The "in choregraphic "rag end of last year in connection with the with his wife on the question of militancy time." and its devoters pronounce it manufacture and laying of the bra and politics generally, was recently asked highly exhilarating. The naive enjoy section of the new cables between Colombo, by her aunt in the way aunts have, whe be married when, ell," she replied, ment of noise and capering as cada in Penang, Singapore, and Hongkong. The ther she would like themselves which marks many depart cost of their new cables would amount to she grew up. ments of American life, and which has about £750,000, which would be charged it doesn't seem to be very nice to be Remarried. Father and mother are always borrowed many of its saltatory expres against the general reserve fund

Oh, no, dear," sions from the revels of the negro popular ferring to the more important changes quarrelling about Votes for Women and that's not quarrelling: tion, is leading to a corybantic rather embodied in the new articles of associa Mr. Lloyd George,''

It's quarrelling when than a courtly view of the function of the tion which formed the regulations of the said the autit, dance; and to it we owe the Turkey company to be submitted for the share that's arguing: Trot, the Bunny Hug, and othe holders approval, he stated that, in people lose their tempors and go out and "Yes," replied the child gyrations no more serious in fact than addition to the necessary changes to bring slam the door.

To some extent the tendencr the company's somewhat obsolete articles sadly, "that's it."

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DEPARTED.

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