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BALL-ROOM DANCING.

YAP AND GUAM.

Japan's Grounds of Clain,

The Modern Trend. The following statement has The present era of ball-room been issued by the Japanese For-dancing may be said to have) eign Office :-

commenced in the early years of

Hays Thrown Where Wanted. There seems to be a tendency o regard the question of dazzling heul Jumps as, solely one for the notorist, whereas primarily it

"The maintenance of peace in the Twentieth Century. It was concerns the convenience and the Orient and the safeguarding not until then that dancers began safety of the general public, says of commerce and navigation into cast off the cramping influence a writer in the Des.. The the Pacific were Japan's purpose left behind by the individual driver ik quite in destroying the German fleet Victorian dancing masters and pappy with the most brilliant and occupying the former German to feel a desire to be able to give headlamps that ingenuityislands.

some little expression of their

NEW ADMINISTRATE. N PROJECTED.

"In accordanco with the

autocratic

the wonderful! dancing on the stage of Mordkin, Nijinski, Pavlova and the other ball-room Russians drew the dancer's attention to the soulless: nature of his own dances and helped to crystallise in his particular sphere the spirit of unrest which was even then eat-

can devise, and if he were alone "In conformity with Allied ad-own individuality in their move- | on the road there is no reason ministrative methods in occupied monte. The gradual passing of why he should not be left to territories, Japan introduced mi. the old valse, in which ono joy them without interference. litary administration and establi- mechanically revolved like a But there are other people on the shed garrisons in the principal teetotum, into the variation, most

pedestrians road, both

and istands but the administration unfortunately named the Boston,! drivers, to whom at the best theis military only in name, for ex-was the first outward evidence ofj glare of his lamps in a nuisance perienced civilians are performing the birth of a now spirit, states a and at most an actual danger, the actual executive work, without writer in the London Morning) because other drivers moving in interference from the military and Post. The opposite direction, being are devoting their efforts toward Undoubtedly temporarily blinded, cannot see the development of peace and the any objecte there may be on the welfare of the natives. This has road behind the dazzling lamps.

been unanimously recognized by Dazzle is rather an indefinite all visitors to the islands. terin, but it may be described as The effect prodiced on the eye by looking, directly at a brilianti source of light. If a motorist is to drive with safety to the general Supreme Council's" resolution of ing its way through the world. public, he must have the road 1919 and the terms of the mandate It must always be remembered illuminated for some distance fixed by the League of Nations that the ball-room is a part of the ahead of him, and, generally Council in December last, Japan great world and that it is im- speaking, the higher his speeds now preparing a suitable ad- mengely affected by what is going the greater that distanco should ministrative organ whose object

on outside. But the illumination at a will be to promote the moral and

The arrival of the one step was given point varies, not directly material happiness, and the social

an easy matter after this revolt Aith

from the progress of the inhabitants. The against autocracy and exactly the distanco surve of light, but inx rsely as military administration will short-

corresponds with the coming of the square of MIAE distance:ly be abolished.

the Bolshevik after the Great obviously, therefore, if the illumi- Recent rumours of the con- War. In the early one step we nation is to he reasonably bright struction of fortifications on the can traco * whole gamut of a fair distance ahead of a car, islands and of Japanese naval Trotskys, Lennins and other re- the lamps it carries must be activity there

entirely volutionaries, which were known bright and consequently dazzling unfunded; it is very regrettable in our drawing-rooms as the il lunked at directly. Any at-that newspapers should publish Bunny Hug, the Turkey Trot and tempt to soften or diffuse the such fabrications.

the Judy Walk. ligt at its source, as by using!

The exotic tango was then ex ground glass or covering the lamp "There is apparently a ten-perimented upon as an intrument with tissue paper, must reduce deney to exaggerate the economic by means of which the dancer] the distance at which a given and strategic value of the islands, hoped to translate into movement intensity of illumination is pro and to attach undue importance attle of his personality, but duced, and, apart from the futility to Japan's occupation of them. this, like every attempt to put a of creating light and the stopping but their total area is less than square pegin a round hole. failed. or destroying it, must be

an that of Rhode Island: economi- The tango is useless as a satisfying unsatisfactory remedy.

cally the islands are scarcely dance except when danced by It utterly fails, worth mentioning, while strate the Latin races. gically they

to interpret the ideas of the are unimportani because Japan, true to the spirit Anglo-Saxon, of mandatory rule, has disavowed all intention to establish military or naval bases or fortifications.

ar..

NO STRATEGIC VALUE.

Then came the War, and the men on fourteen days leave let themselves go in the newly introduced fox trot.

If, thon, e bright source of light

nevitable, the only way of avoiding its dazzling effects is to arrange it in such a way that pedestrians and drivers shall be unable to look at it directly. The needs of a driver are satisfied if

"Yap is one third the area of With the arrival of the the actual surface of the road is Guam, its harbour will lluminated, and he does not barely accommodate three small Armistice our hall rooms were crowd d to overflowing with requiro to see, say, the tops of steamers: except for the cable the trees that border the road. facilities

hundreds of young men who had Yap is worthless, Hence it will be sufficient for his barren

picked up" dancing during" sand in midacero. parposos if the lamps of his It might

be said their periodical brief leaves from as woll

the tranches or the training rar made to project beam that America secured control o

evel More than with its top edge parallel to the the Atlantic through her purchase licence camps.

given to the surface of the road, and at of the Virgin islands as thut ividual dancer to fashion his height of, say, 4ft, or 44ft above Japan has staked out an area of dances as the fancy pleased! four million square miles from him. Dips, twinkles other quaint Kamchatka to the South Pacific through the mandated islands,

i Such a beam will not strike lirectly the eyes of pedestrians (except children) or drivers of uther vehicles meeting it, and there fore will not be dazzling apart from one limiting and not very important case, when a cari and a pedestrian are just reaching the crest of a hill from opposite directions.

was

in

movements abounded, and, though our dancing was always clean, MISSIONARIES PREE TO WORK it was decidedly grotesque and

"There have been certain selfish, changes of administrative posts But, after all. truth must pre- due to climatic and communica- vail in the end, even if for a time tion considerations, but rumours madness stalks abroad, and the of strategic

preparations

are more sober dagcers began to groundless,

realise that, although they might "Foreign firms are actually cast off the authority of the danc- this result could Je readily doing business with the islands ing master, they must not alto- attained by blocking out the top and American missionaries are gether jettison technique. portion of the glass of the lamp, freely working there, despite re- A meeting of prominent teachers so as to allow only the lower part ports of Japan's interference with was held in London last year, of the beam to emerge; but, apart from other imperfections, this or prohibition of such activities, who,

and which reports are pure fabrica: situation tion."

"At first sight it might seem that

after discussing the realising the method would entail wasting

dangers of the direction in which light even more crudely than

dancing was travelling, very with the use of tissue paper. If

wisely did not attempt to dictate, half the light were stopped in this way the lamp would evidently tom of the compartment at the halt should be called, and they but merely to suggest that a have to be something like double back end; since the lens reverses left it to the innate good taste of the power to give the same the rays, this atop makes the top the dancers themselves to steer a intensity of illumination at a edge of the beam slightly rounded midway between the Scylla of statel distance, and the motorist following the camber of the road. autocracy and the Charybdis of would be obliged to provide him-The light from the upper compart. self with a correspondingly larger meat is projected forwards, and

Since that day dancing in electrical equipment.

downwards and mingling with more rational plan is to that from the lower compartment, London has improved beyond all collect as much as possible of the reinforces it some distance ahead expectation. Prolatos of the Church may, with justice, thunder total light of the lamp by optical of the car. A third but less!

aainst the dancing on the Con- means and project it where it is brilliant beam may be seen pro- tinent, but in this country to-day wanted, and this is the method jected from the lamp and falling not one word can be track fully adopted in at least one lamp, that on the road just in front of the attered against the delicacy of devi ed by Sir Howard Grubb, ear.

our own dancers.

A

grotesqueness.

the scientific adviser to the Com- The illumination in the fore- To-day the essence of good missioners of Irish Lighters. Inground is rather ungvon, and jeball-room dancing is rhythm its latest form, which is much complicated by the shadow of the and carriage. The actual stepa simpler both in design and cons electric bulb, but, on the other are few in number and very truction than the earlier model hand, it is well spread sideways, simple. They are merely the testen by the Royal Automobile enabling the driver to see people means used to move the body ro- Club, a metal cylinder, about 10in on the footpaths ad to pick out and the room in perfect sympathy long and tapering at its front end sido turnings. To an observer with the rhythm of the music, and to a diameter of4. is fixed to the standing in front of the car there it is bad form to add decorative lamp in place of the ordinary glass is no suspicion of dazzle, and the detail to these steps. Experience This cylinder is divided into lamps look much like ordinary cil has shown that this sympathy two compartments by a horizon side-lamps, whilshe gets no sensa-ban bo obtained in the fox trot, tal metal diaphragm, the upper tion that behind the car there is a the most popular of the modern surface of which is dull and non-wall of impenetrable darkness. He rhythms, with the use of at most reflecting, while the under one is realizes, however, the intensity four different steps or movements. polished and reflecting; and each of the illumination when he The dancer who uses extra- of these compartments is closed turns round and notices the ordinary steps is a back number at its front end by a lens, or, sharpness of the shadows cast by he is still in the age of Bolshev- rather, by a portion of a lens cut his legs. With electric lamps ism, and in the ball-room that age out recentrically, The greater taking 24 watts, the light is has passed away for ever. part of the light is projected sufficient for driving at moderate from the lower compartment. the speeds; whether in a county rear end of the diaphragm whore the law imposes A beingplaced

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