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Waltz the Viennese Way

ANCE fashions are changing again. To suit romantic frocks, romantic hats, romantic curls, the romantic dances are staging a triumphant come-back this winter.

In ballrooms and dance halls all over. the country the waltz will reign supreme, the dance that shocked all Europe when it was introduced after the Napoleonic Wars and which has never really quite disappeared.

But the younger generation stand to be cut out by their fathers and mothers this winter unless they take lessons-for the 1937 waltz is not the languid dreamy affair of a few years ago but the true Viennese waltz, with its sway and swirl. Those who stand out as good

waltzers in any ballroom at the moment either and women

are

men

over fifty 8730 Austrian and

German

tors.

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waltz came in

Lo fashion

By

Audrey

Wrangham

again in Jubilee year for the Court balls, when those attending took lessons in it.

In Coronation year it will be danced again at Buckingham Palace, no doubt. It is constantly to be seen danced beautifully on the films, and the many people who took holidays this year in Austria and Germany saw it danced everywhere to the ex- clusion of the foxtrot.

Young people who are planning winter sport parties after Christinas in Austria and in Switzer-

it, for land need quickly to learn

they will be completely out of things otherwise.

OUR

the one essential step in the Rumba, slow, quick, slow, and the more than essential rhythm.

The apart position is again the correct one in this dance both popular dancos this win- ter get right away from the cheek-to-cheek

atyle of dancing.

ATIN dances are be- Lcoming more popular with English people, and in the opinion of Mr. Richardson, editor of

the Times the Dancing Paso Doblo may become as popu- lar as the waltz by next summer. So much nonsense has been writ- ten about the tango, which is, of woman course, a solo dance for

in Spain. The Argentine tango is a dance for two people, and it can perfectly well be danced by English that they are dancers providing Laught the right rhythm and master the atmosphere of the dnnice. The are Big Four points in all lessons Balance, Position, Hold and Rhythm, Once they have been learned the essentials of any dance have been learned, too,

E set dance is back

TH again in the English

ballroom. Reeks are to be seen throughout the winter, and re- quests for lessons in reel dancing have been pouring in to Madame Vacani.

Young men who are shy and there are still some like thatike reel dancing because it has a more sociable atmosphere than the dance "deux."

Men and girls dance together who have not been formally introduced. Reels break the ice Bike Paul Jones or the old Lancers and none of the steps is difficult. In fact, not more than a single lesson is needed by the average dancer.

new set dance, to appear during being now Coronation month, is planned by Madame Vacani to be daneed in sets of six rather than the usual eight, and the steps will be taken from old typically English folk-dances.

Gone are the blues, the slow fox- trot. The Lancers is not back yet and the Veleta has not a very general appeal. It is the romantic waltz that is stirring dancers again, to the enchanting gaiety of Strauss music.

Dr. Mary Anthony writes about

The quickstep and the waltz are the foundations of ballroom dancing! this winter in the opinion of Gen

UR five special senses of Mouflet, who is persuading people

seeing, hearing, smell, that the Viennese waltz can be and should be danced on the space of a taste and touch, are infinitely postage stamp.

precious and make life whole English dancers are apt to try and and complete. But of the five, dance it like an English waltz and travel up the room, but German and probably the most precious is the Austrian dancers rotate in a minute gift of sight. space. For the second half of the

And the eyes are a good index of gentleman's turn, for instance, one foot must brush past the other foot, an individual's character and health, revolving in a tiny circle. The hesi- The clear, sclerotics or whites, the lation step between turns should be bright coloured iris brown or blue or hazel, the sensitive pupil, all com- done forwards and backwards und

pose a wonderful.work. not sideways.

ntif.

ness.

BABY'S

EYES

next

SQUINT

worse. The eyes. should be retested from time to time, as the vision may improve or there may be alteration In the strength of the eye muscles,

more obvious

In the latter case both mother bedtime and followed the

bathe with Warn and baby are usually removed to morning by hospital. There intensive treatment boracle lotion. This lotion consists

thon

is short sight, but is given to the baby whilst its simply of one teaspoonful of boracic

powder to one pint of boiling water, very frequently I can be cured com-. This should be well stirred and pletely. natural feeding can be continued,

OF late years there has placed in a clean bottle when cool. Bables may be born with a squint

been a marked decreuse in serious eye trouble occurring in infants.

muscle

disease

the

It often hastens matters if a grey which sometimes disappears and powder is given once or twice. The sometimes persists. Again a squint dose varies from one quarter grain

En cye Behind the pupil is the transparent This is mostly due to increased for an infant to one grain for the may fellow convulsions after teeth-

ing. Paralysis of About three lessons will teach girls

after some fever or brain sand their partners the correct swing, glass-like lens and the sensitive ante-natal care. The mother comes two-year-old.

which receives impressions under skilled supervision and If she

The powder, which is in the form may produce squint. suffering from some serious disease foot movements and hold. This reling

like # photographic plate. The inediate and continued treatment of a hard tablet, is usually crushed

БСУСЕС In

inflammation of should be upright, but not

alle brain or its membrane, there may leaning rather away from each other chamber of the eye contains a clear is given. The infant may by this up and put on the tongue. It is People erroneously imagine that this fluid which keeps up an even pres- incans escape the dreadful heritage, then washed down with

but too often there is congenial mal water. A child, of course, may be severe squinting of both eyes, formation of the eye, so that the swallow the tablet whole or it can Fortunately this condition passes off apart position takes up

a greater sure.

he administered by crushing and amount of room in n hullroom, but

sight is seriously impaired.

neally concealing it in a spoonful of as the patient recovers, normal jam. this is, of course, a fallacy.

For the healthy

Mothers may be deceived by an baby a little weak boracle

WHEN the whites of the WH lotion is good. A piece of clean

ayes ure inflamed and appearance of squint due either to cotton wool is soaked in this and red the child should use only his short sight or to a broadening of the This form of skin on the nose which seems to the eyelids gently wiped. A separ- own soap, towel, etc. ate plece should be used for cach conjunctivitis is catching and is fre- cover the inner angle of the eye. eye to prevent the spread of infec- quently seen among schoolchildren tion from one to the other.

in the spring and late outuma.

THE

NATURALLY, the care of

the eyey should take first place in our scheme for children's THE other dance that is welfare.

bound to be popular all The eyelids should be clean and this winter is the Rumba, not to free from discharge and the lashes be confused with the Carioca, soft and thick. which has died a natural death.

After a few weeks this need not be continued if there is no sign of any stickiness of the lids. signs

Older babies and children some.

If, however, the squint is constant, the mother should try to ascertain Reading is a fair test of eyesight. Toys and other objects which are which eye is affected. By covering large and have a definite outline do one eye the other will be seen to not put much strain on vision. But squint if both eyes are weak. If only to see a picture.or a word in a book one eye is weak the good one will

At birth the nurse bathes the The former is a South American infant's eyes with a mild antiseptic dance that was always intended to solution in order to remove be danced in a small space-making contamination. If there are it essentially practical for English of much inflammation or of a pro- times have a "stye" on the eyes, requires some degree of focussing, not squint when the bad one is dance halls with knees bent and to-fuse discharge within the next 21 If the eyelash round which it has and it is at this stage that defective covered.

be plucked out, 50 eyesight becomes apparent. gether, shoulders and head well days the health authorities are noli- formed can

much the better. But as this is a

No time should be Jost in the The child screws up his eyes or back, heels appearing never to touch Дed,

Job requiring some little skill it is frowns hard, at the same time hold- treatment of squint as the child is, the floor, and feet apart.

The trouble may be just a simple safest, left untouched,

ing the bock very close up.

using the wrong muscles for vinion. Pupils of the expert are given an infection or it may be more serious5

The application of a little diluted The use of suitable glasses will Next week I will write on the Cintment" is very correct this weakness and will pre- modern methods for master with the risk of permanent blind- Golden Eye exercise to enable them to

helpful. This should be applied at vent the trouble from growing 'squint.

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