Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1917 — One-Step Not New. [ARTICLE]

One-Step Not New.

If you’ve been doing the one-step un. der the impression you’re being modern, forget it and go to learning the minuet or some other reasonably upto date dance —take It on the word of James E. Cogan of Washington. Mr. Cogan, who Is here on a visit told Broadway he had danced the one-step as far back as 35 years ago—and, In fact, had invented it himself. The other night Cogan strolled down the great white way to renew memories of th© city and chance led him into a big restaurant along the Rialto, where, after a few minutes of obstlnation he was persuaded to try his hand—that is, feet, of Aurse—at a dance. What was his surprise to find he could not only do the one-step, but could do it as well as any of those on the floor. And then he discovered the one-step was really not new at all, “I danced that as far hack as forty years ago,” he declared. “In fact, I invented it.” Wherefore, Mr. Dancer, what do you mean, modernism ?—New York Correspondence Pittsburgh; Dispatch.