Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1904 — Dancing Lessons Ware Popular. [ARTICLE]

Dancing Lessons Ware Popular.

Prof. Arnold dosed his fust series of dancing lessons here last Friday and Saturday. In order to dose the series he bunched the two last lessons together, on Friday and Saturday, and both at the price of one lesson. It would certainly seem that a < apable dancing instructor here must have filled a long felt want, judging from the great numbers who took his instruction either in the three classes given each Friday in the armory, or at private lessons. It is reliably stated that nearly or quite 210 persona thus received instruction in the Terpsichorean art. The fever in fact, claimed all sorts and con ditions of people. “The youth in life’s green spring, and he who goes in the full strength of years, matron and maid, and the sweet babe, and the gray-headed man” as the poet Bryant said in a considerably dissimilar connection, all left their mirth and their employment, and flocked to learn the graceful art of “tripi ing as they go, ou the light fantastic toe.” In fact the way Rensselaer people took to dancing lessons, has the traditional tendency of a duck for water, skinned entirely, as a comparison. And Prof Arnold declared it surpassed everything in his experience as an instructor.