Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 244, 21 August 1913 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1913 PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME PAGE

MARRIED LIFE SECOND YEAR,

THE DA NCES OF TOD A Y

By Evelyn Nesbit Thaw

By MABEL HERBERT URN ER

FTER all Helen did not have the family for New Year's dinner. Warren's father was taken ill the day

after Christmas, and the whole family was so concerned that any kind 01 a dinner or celebration was not thought of. And Helen was glad secretly, wickedly glad. She told herself that, of course, she was sorry Mr. Curtis was sick, but it was only acute indigestion from eating too much Christmas dinner, she could not be seriously alarmed. So she and Warren and the baby had a quir,fc and restful New Year's at home. It was several evenings afterwards that Warren went over to see his father and came back frowning fiercely"Why, what's the matter?" Helen asked anxiously. "Is your father worse?" "No," curtly. "He's sitting up." "What is it then something has happened." "Carrie was there." "Well?" THE CUT GLASS PITCHER. "She told me about the cut glass pitcher you pent her Christmas." "Well?" "It was damaged a piece nicked out of the edge." "Oh, I'm so sorry they must have done it in the delivery." "No!" he stormed. "You bought it that way!" "Yes," fairly roaring at her. "It came with the piece wrapped separately." There was a moment's silence. Then Helen said quietly. "Very well. Now that you know 'Fll listen." "Listen to what?" "To all that you are going to say about my deception and trickery. Now this was disconcerting. It la hard to rage at a person who admits she is willing to be raged at. Warren had prepared a seething lecture as he fumed angrily on the way home. But it was difficult to deliver when she had already anticipated it and wai setting there waiting her hands meekly folded. However, this made him only the more angry. CLEVERNES AND DECEIT. "Oh, that's your method is it? You're clever all right, you're a darned sight too clever! I only hope the baby won't inherit your particular form of cleverness and deceit! I hope when

she is old enough to send Christmas presents she'll be honest enough to send cheap ones if she can't afford anything better! And not get some expensive thing that's damaged and count on everyone thinking it was broken in delivery! If they hadn't wrapped the piece separately that's what Carrie would have thought and you, I suppose would have been happy in the success of your scheme!" He paused. Helen was waiting very apparently waiting for him to go on. This only further incensed him. He certainly expected apologies and stammered excuses and tears. To be sure tears always enraged him but this calm, unruffled composure enraged him more! "So," he fumed, "you are trying to brazen out to act as though it was a perfectly plausible commendable thing!" "No," she answered quietly, "it was not a commendable thing." Neither was it commendable in you to put all the burden of the Christmas shopping upon me and not give me half enough money to do it with. "I told you how I wore myself out searching the shops for suitable presents for your people, with the small amount I lrad to spend. You know how you went on when 1 asked you for more money- said we couldn't afford to send 'diamond tiaras' to everyone we knew. So 1 was driven to all sorts of subterfuges. I sent many of the presents I received last year and gave away all the handkerchiefs Cousin Alice brought me from 'Paris. I said nothing about any of this to you, because you could not understand why the few dollars you had given me should not buy presents for all your family and mine!" "And above all, I dreaded Carrie's present she is so critical and hard to please. So when I saw that cut glass pitcher reduced to less than half its value because of the tiny piece chipped from the edge I bought it. And I sent it, believing she would think it was chipped in the delivery. "Of course, it never occurred to me then that they would wrap the piece separately Now that they did and you all know well, I don't think I really care! Your family have never approved of me one more cause for their disapproval won't much matter. And since lately, you too, have done nothing but criticize me you might as well criticize me for this as for everything else." And without giving him time to answer, she quietly left the room.

"The tango," says Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, "is, when properly danced, graceful, modest and pretty." The illustrations to Mrs. Thaw's article show her dancing the tango with her dancing partner, Jack Clifford, and she believes that they bear out what she says. At the left, in the upper picture, is shown the beginning of the dance, as Mrs. Thaw and Mr. Clifford dance it. The partners face forward and are sufficiently apart to retain the grace and individuality that each should display.

REVERENCE FOR ROYAL TITLES

By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. A REVERENCE for titles is born in the English blood and it permeates the mentality of that nation. At the same time the English people demand more of a man and woman of tide before admitting them to their favor than do our American society circles! We have many cases of bogus lords and dukes, counts and barons, who have become social lions, and even married women of good family before they were unmasked. Such an occurrence is unknown in England, for they have their literature of caste, and no man would dare assume a title there without facts to substantiate the claim. The pretenders come toAmerica where they know they can find an entree to our "best society" in many parts of the land merely through our craze for the titles which we pretend to despise. In England a Title Wins a Reverence All Its Own. But in England when a man or wornnd bears a title, especially a title which has descended from father to eon for several generations, or centuries, he is sure to receive a peculiar abeisance from the "commoner," which no amount of money or intellect could obtain for him without the title. A very enterprising and progressive Englishman expressed concern at the unorthodox religious tendencies of a friend. This friend, an American, is a Theosophist, and the kindly hearted Englishman, being devoted to the Church of England and being most conservative by nature, begged his friend to be careful about expressing her pagan ideas, lest she make herself unpopular. Then one day she unfolded to him a surprising fact an English lady bearing an honored name, granddaughter of an earl, daughter of an earl and sister of an earl, was an avowed Theosophist, and she had asked the American lady to lunch because of her pa

gan ideas. Whereupon the nice, kindly hearted Englishman ceased to be anxious, for though he might not accept the pagan ideas for himself, he felt they gained a certain dignity from being accepted by the distinguished descendant of two earls. Lady Emily Lutyens (pronounced Lutchens), national representative of the Order of the Star in the East, in England, is the daughter of Owen Meredith, second Earl of Lytton, and granddaughter of the first Lord Lytton, who contributed great works of art to English literature in "The Last Days of Pompeii," and many other notable novels. She. is the wife of an eminent architect and artist, one to whom the large work of fitting Delhi, India, architecturally for the seat of government has been accorded by royal decree. Lytton's Granddaughter and How She Rears Her Children.

Lady Lutyens is the mother of four : splendid children, all under the age of fourteen, and their education is taking place under her personal su-! pervision. Some years ago Lady Lutyens heard 1 the words "Reincarnation" and "Kar- i ma" spoken. She asked their meaning, j and having an inquiring mind, she be- i ban to study the philosophy they rep-' resent, the philosophy which is has-' ed on right thoughts, right words, ; right actions, and which makes every soul its own Savior and every mind ; its own architect for heavens on earth j and after death. And the result was that the brilliant daughter of Owen ; Meredith became an earnesgt, devout and serious Theosophist. j Every day she reads a litle and 1 talks a little to her young children : talks a little to her young children of : the four young minds has received the underlying facts and principles as a basis for building the beautiful Tower of Faith later and as a Radiant Centre from which to receive Power and Purpose from the Universe. i Lady Lutyens is editor of The Dav-

The picture above, at the left, showing another position in the dance, Mrs. Thaw considers one of the best defenses possible of the modem school of the art and she adds that there are many steps equally graceful, pretty and modest. At the right Mrs. Thaw appears in a little exercise preliminary to the dance itself, which she considers wisdom to practise, since it makes for suppleness and grace. BY EVELYN NESBIT THAW. in its own place. There is stage dancTS the modern style of dancing J ing, which permits of far greater freereally dancing or vulgarity and dom than ballroom dancing should acrobatics set to music? dream of taking. Stage dancing may

side, with implied criticism of turkey j even a bit of contortion

These pictures were especially posed for this page.

who considered it vulgar, indpcrnf and well-night impossible to allow in respectable places the poor. dear, conservative little waltz thnt is allowed by all the people who would scarcely dare to look at a turkey-trot today! But the turkey-trot is in its in'nnry

and here be it said that it is a very

combine athletics and acrobatics, and

all duly min-

trotting and tangoing in every sylla- ; gled with the poetry of motion. Ballble of the questions. j room dancing should be far more con-

Modern dancing is really dancing j servative should be, and sometimes j hale and hearty infant, and v, hen proband I propose to speak in its defense j is not. ! erly brought up and educated will but I shall divide dancing into two Now. years ago. when the waltz first j grow into a very chaining youth, classes, and each class must be kept came into vogue, it had many enemies' I have given time and interest to

spring, the organ of the Theosophical society known as the order of the Star in the East. This order has been founded to draw together those who, whether inside or outside the T. S., believe in the near coming of a great spiritual teacher for the helpir.e of the world. It is thought that its members may, on he physical plane, do something to pre-

an instrument of service ready for His use. The Declaration of Principles, acceptance of which is all that is necessary for admission to the order, is as follows: 1. We believe that a great Teacher will soon appear in the world, and we wish so to live now that we may be worthy to know Him when He

comes.

pare public opinion for His coming , 2. We shall try. therefore, to keep and to create an atmosphere of wel- i Him in our minds always and to do

come and reverence; and. on the in His name, and therefore to the i that we try to do for Him and in His higher planes, may unite in forming ; best of our ability all the work which ' name.

comes to us in our daily occupation. 3. As far as our ordinary dutic.-? allow, we .-hall endeavor to devote a portion of our time each day to sr.mc definite work which may hr-lp to prepare for His coming. 4. We shall seek to make devotion, steadfastness and gentlnf-.s prominent characteristics of our daily life. 5. We shall try to l.tgin and end each day with a short period devotrd to the asking of Hi.s blessing upon all

Clever Hostess. A German band happened to play under the windows of a bouse in a fashionable neighborhood the other afternoon, when Mrs B was "at hone" They were a fair specimen of their kind blaring and r.oiey, yet correct in their time and altogether in movement from long practice. The butler started out to drive them a ay, for they interrupted the music w ithin. but Mrs B. ercered him to invite them in. A happy thought struck her. "Ladies and gentlemen," she jaid, five minutes later, "a party of our friends have consented to give an imitation of a street hnd. I now have the pleasure of introducing them." Then the six members of the organization fled awkwardly into place and played a p ece. The audience teli:htedly declared that the mimicry vis perfect, especially the make-up of th plajfrs, ufco were recalled half a doten times "Would you take them for anything but genuine street t-tragglers?" was asked of a belle. "Indeed. es." she confidently replied; "they're clever m their mimicry, but one can always tell gentlemen, no matter hew difguised. I'm dying to find out who they are." and the place is not the "Dansunt" or "Tauso Tea." The Tango Tea is a menace to young girls. Parents who take the proper

'interest in their children can keep them at home and out of dance halls (spelled with the second vowel if jou prefer) at nijsht. But of course young , girls have to be allowed a certain I amount of freedom in the day and many a sixteen -yt-ar-old child drifts

out of the pure air into the driak-and-danger atmosphere of the Tango Tea. at five in the afternoon. Apart from stage dancing, which U meant "for to admire and for to see." there is modern dancing for every one. The place is the home or the private ballroom and the time is an evening of pleasant relaxation and healthy exercise. The first thing to consider in ballroom dancing, as I am going to call it, is position. The turkey trot and tango should be danced with the partners a foot apart. These dances must allow for freedom of motion aart individual exprension, and to be graceful as well as modest they demand room for each partner to move about easily. First, then, stand a foot apart, with the man's open right palm firmly held

at the center of the girl's waist in back. The girl's left hand is Just below the man's light shoulder, with her arm parallel to his; and the girl's right arm is loosely held over the man's left forearm, which is held tense from the bent elbow. This position allows for free motion and careful guidance that mill make for unity of motion without any jerks or jolts. And is not the position modest, even more modest than the now generally accepted and allowed waltz position? The next great rule for the turkey trotter is: Keep your feet on the floor Glide all the time; don't bounce or bob, wriggle or sway in the objectionable fashion of people who do not understand the modern school of dancing, but dance at it. Keep your feet on the floor and do not shrug your shoulders: just glide along in a near-walking step your feet on the floor and your body in a continuous line, with shoulders held even. Follow the rule as to position, gliding feet and unshrugged shoulders, and at once the objectionable features of the new dance that has swept the country and has given every one the stimulus of enjoyable exercise will t? eliminated. But the .modern dance Is far more than elimination it is careful selection, and from day to day I am going to show you carefully s. lected and posed figures and to tell

the study of the modern dance, and you just how to practise them, so that through these columns I hope to bring you may dance with the procession about a better knowledge and under- and be a turkey trot and tango exstanding of the beautiful steps and pert. postures, the enjoyable motion and: Today I am redwing you a little gliding that are so much misunder- stretching exercise that it wilf be stood and that are maligned as are all wise for you to practice, of suppleness misunderstood things. ; and grace, before you start doing tha The turkey trot and the tango and steps which Mr. Clifford and I will p!cthe better variations of both are beau- ture for you. tiful dances in their time and place.; Next consider the tango step, daneHut the time is not 5 in the afternoon, ed for stage purposes only. The step ! itself is pretty and simple, partners , . M '. facing forward, man's right and girl's We regard it as our special duty Mt foo fiHphv hn c,oge to try to recognize and reverence ; mbncim- portion must change for greatness in whomsoever shown and j baJIroora UPage. to strive to co-operate, so far as we The thrd picture Ia the de. can with those whom we feel to be UnBe , know for the modrn Mhool of spiritually our superiors. j dancing. It is not graceful, modest and Anna Resant's Views of the Or-'pretty? I hope soon to teach all of you der of the Star in the East. ! many 8teps that be,OD in jU8t tht Anna Bcsant says of this order: 1 fam category with this step and 1 "When the Snnrem T.rh hcPe that a11 m' long-diStnce pupils

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v.-as unprepared for His coming; only (Continued on Page Nine.)

will be able to do steps and whole aan-

, ces that take their place in the same ! class with this graceful little neari minuet dip-step.

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