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THE

HONGKONGR

TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, JANUARY

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32.

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(4, 5 & 6.

AP-DANCING, once considered beyond the scope of all but the professional, can now be enjoyed by anybody who is willing to practice regularly.

Before attempting any of the actual steps, however, it is most important to make oneself absolutely familiar with the rhythm, and the exercises sketched above and described on the right help the "tapper" to acquire this sense..

Practise these movements for a day or so and then go on to the other lessons which will be given in this page.

Cut out each lesson as it appears and keep it by you' for reference.

O

YOUR FAMILY

TREE

----

SMITH

IN THE

stone

NCE Britain was all

ice and no Smiths lived in it. The first men preferred what are now scorchingly hot spots like the Sahara in Africa, and the Gobi in Asia, and Meso- potamia, in those days tree- clad and equable places.

By 5000 B.C. Britain was Let's becoming habitable.

take a walk in it 2,000 years -later, in-3000.B.C.-

It is raining, as it nearly always was then. There is no place to move In comfort except along the tops of the hills. The valleys are thick forests full of wild animals, or else ywum.pe.

our

Suddenly we came on a band of ancestors-very unpleasant- looking Smiths with long hair caked with mud, low foreheads, squashed noses, beeiling brows, and dressed in skins.

บ

These are the Old Stone Age Men. They have discovered the use impicments und can sharpen flints. With these they kill small animals or cut up the dead mest loft by animals stronger than themselves.

Sometimes they cook the meat, more often they crom it raw into their mouths.

They have bad dreams after these meals, and so starts the bellef in the supernatural. They have no settled hoines. They are roving hunters.

PY ubout 2500 B.C.

Interesting more

people arrive from France and Denmark and settled in Sussex, Hampshire and Dorset, and in East Anglia.

A strange fellow with strange habits-your ancestor

Smith.

You'll find it entertaining

to know more about him, his work, his hobbies, the way he lived and how his family tree greie.

You'll understand better

why you are what you are, Article here tells you about the earliest. Smiths of all.

dangerous animals out from forests below.

INSIDE the village has

age

The bronze Is made into OXCS, knives, and agricultural implements. From Ireland, too, come gold ornaments. We are in the Bronze Age.

Smith is wearing bright wayen cloths and ornaments instead of skins. Village life

the is much same, but the people are certainly looking more elegant.

Another thing: they probably believe in the existence of the soul. The New Stone Age people burled their dead unburned in long "bar- -row," but the Bronze Age people burn their dead and bury them in small round mounds with a few instruments that will be useful to them after death an axe, some pottery, and ornaments..

Clearly they think there is an after life, and the physical body plays no purt in it.

These circular mounds are some- times posts. The circle has some magic meaning. Villages are built in circles

meeting-places, and

Avebury, near a. large circle with a modern (that is 10 say, mediaeval villagè inside It, is the

circle in biggest prehistoric world.

WHILE

Bronze

the

Age Smith

was living in Britain some new and even cleverer men came to the south coast of England.

The villages were still on the tops. of hills and the valleys still fill of thick foresis and dangerous swamps. It was, hot a long walk along the hillstifter landing from the Channel to come to a settlement..

There

was not much fighting and the new visitors kept on coming in increasing numbers from about 800

They brought with them iron im- the plements and are known as the Iron Age Men, But they also brought the idea of chieftains and village government. They actually had enclosures

street, the entrance gate is

a bush, and the houses are just bits

towns inside the ranged as streets,

They were able to grow grain and of tree with a skin thrown over the hamlets of huts, existed in the fields, do a bit of simple farming. But their top for a roof.

The enclosure does not consist only tain from the neighbouring hamlets

implements were sull stone, so they

no with wooden huts

More fields spread outside the vill- and smaller communities,

Men went for justice to the chlet-

and did their shopping by exchange ere known as the New Stone Age of skin-clad people of small stature in the town which Itself was visited There are also sheep and pigs and

very by merchants. even dogs. They have cows, The Smiths of the New Stone small ones,

milic.

These Iron Age people are also The Age lived in communities.and they

like garden city called women,

Celts. They crossed the built the fret villages. Not the dwellers to-day, are keen on pottery Channel from Asia Minor by way of comfortable places of to-day nest- and make round pols decorated with France. And now we come into the ling under hills and clustered round finger-nnil marks and string lines. time of recorded history.

Men.

for

a church among the eims. There is They are also useful at digging in hardly a square mile of upland in the fields. Britain where you will not find the traces stili,

:

these The strangest thing about peaceful peoplo is the way they bury

their dead. They build a long stone JULIUS CAESAR

landed in

and

Mr. Smith on his Saturday off passage and push dead bodies into

Britain in 64 B.C takes Mrs. Smith and the Uttle it until it is full, and then cover it about eleven years later the Romans Smiths for a picnic on, the downs, with a mound of earth.

settled down for the next 350 years. and' while they snooze under the So the long "barrows" that you The Iron Age Men were pleased lark charmed bright fresh air the sometimes and marked on the one to see them for various reasons. Utile Smiths play bide-and-seck inch man are the first cemeteries of First, they had been bothered by among the Bitle rabbit-favoured Great Britain. hills. Those flattened hillocks are

all fiat are left of the ramparts be

hind. which sheltered Stone Age

Smith Came

The first villages were naturally

sorae unattractive toughs called Belgae, who Janded in Kent and plainted themselves blue with-woad.-

Next, they liked nothing better THEN" one day along the the forming and making designs

frequented truck leading in the chalk and weaving them.

in pottery and cutting out figures in The Romans let them go on doing

In this only habitable land-the tops over the hills from village to village cloths.

of hillà. They werd circular spaces come men with bronze (which was

surrounded by a huge ditch, dug out made by the Fastern Mediterraneans these things In fact dicir legis of the chalk of the downs, to keep in about 2000 B.C.).

1937.

Tap- dancing

In twelve easy- to-follow lessons

lesson...one

1. Put on a fox-trot record of steady tempo. Now listen until you can distinctly hear the four bents which make up each bar of music.

2. Clay your hands once to each beat of the music--1, 2, 3, 4; 1, 2, 3, 4—and con- tinue to do this until, the rhythm is

· absolutely familiar.

3. Tap your right foot to each beat-1, 2.

3, 4; 1, 2, 3, 4. Now your left-1, 2, |

3, 4; 1, 2, 3, 4. Do you notice how you instinctively mark ONE, two, three, four?

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sprang up alongside the old towns, the north people had never as at St. Albans and Colchester.

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*

Tow it looks as though this is n history of all Britain,

heard

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