Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1914 — GRANDMAS HELD THE FLOOR [ARTICLE]

GRANDMAS HELD THE FLOOR

Occasion Proved That Youth by No Means Had a Monopoly of Joys of the Tango.

Danee-mad sixteen is comprehensible, but dance-mad sixty-six—well, that’s a different thing altogether. The one is patural, the other—-isn’t. A New York paper describes the recent opening of “the newest dancing place in the city, the Castle House,” as a scene o/ many remarkable features.

The older the men and women the wilder the dancing! Gray-haired women had partners who still had their first vote to cast, while the pink tea variety of bald men took debutante partners in mastering the steps of the Argentina, Hesitation and other dips and trots and tangoes. The older the women, the more adaptable their costumes for tangoing. The gowns were all' short, of course, with a split in front or back, and many of the snowy-head ed women long past sixty had theirs split clear to thej knee. - The plan was to have a place where young girls could go unchaperoned in the afternoon, but most of the young folk who arrived *fter five had to enjoy the sport from the side lines. Their mammas, aunts and grandmothers had the center of the, floor and all the available young men by that time.

Lottery Romances. Lottery tickets, such as that which has just won a Staffordshire miner a prize of £46,000, have always brought romance. A few years since the drawing of the annual Christmas lottery at Madrid brought a poor mechanlo £20,000, and on the same occasion a crossing sweeper won £B,OOO with a ticket given him by an old lady for assisting her across a busy thoroughfare. Equally romantic was the experience of a poor shopkeeper, a widow, in a Berlin suburb. One day a shabbily-dressed man entered her shop and, begging permission to light his pipe, at the gas Jet, produced a piece of paper, which he used as a spill and then threw, half charred, on, the floor. When sweeping the shopt the widow, picking up the spill, found! It to be a lottery ticket. A few weeks after It won her £lo,ooo.—London, Chronicle. , Dog Ghost Revealed Secret. The most extraordinary of dog ghosts was the Dog o’ Manse. It was a ; dog ghost, but not the ghost of at dog. According to the account given; to Bishop Rattray by William Soutar. the Perthshire man who saw it ini 1728-30. it first appeared vaguely aa something like a screeching fox, whlchi dogs refused to chase. Next time it| was a big. dark gray dog, which, touched him on the hip, and the hipt remained painful all night After several such appearances the phantom; dog took to Bpe&king, and confessed! itself to be David Soutar, who had! killed a man 35 years before and nowi appeared as a dog because • dog had| been with him when he did it. Human, hopes were found buried under a hush at a spot Indicated by the ghost-* London Chronicle. '