Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1913 — Fair Students Dance Tango on Sticky Flypaper [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Fair Students Dance Tango on Sticky Flypaper

Baltimore, md.—The “tanglefoot tango” is the latest. And—whis-

per it -softly—it had its beginning in that place where hitherto the da'nce has been looked upon askance, within the walls of a Goucher college dormitory. The time was in the darkness of evening of a recent Saturday. The danseuse who gave the performance was a little, very bright, very frightened member of the freshman class at

Goucher. with her chum: Over at the Western High school, where the very little freshmen went last year, she was noted for her dainty dancing. One night a few

weeks ago she was invited, with her chum, who is not much bigger , than she, and a freshman, too, to visit two very popular-appearing sophomores in their rooms in one of the college dormitories. A number of sophomores besides their hostesses greeted the freshmen. Prom some mysterious corner a roll of paper was brought forth; “Take off your shoes,” ordered the tallest sophomore. The two timid freshmen kicked off their pumps. “And your stockings,” continued the lengthy leader of the sophomore hosts. The stockings came off, too, and the timid freshmen tried to hide their toes beneath their fresh-men-length skirts. Two long, mysterious rolls of paper were spread out upon the floor, and then came the final order: “Now, dance the tango.” And the freshmen —game representatives of their spunky class —danced. They danced with their bare feet tangled in lengths of tanglefoot fly paper, which had been laid for their dancing floor.