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Show THE DANCING GIRLS. Mile. Bonfanti and Mile. Eugenie Lupo, the beat dancers in the country command salaries of $30 a week: each. A person never makes a great dancer unless she begins when very yung. All of our beet dancersstarted when three, four or five ysars old, and then the course of training-occupies ten or twelve years. Said one of the dancers: "If we are ill for only a few weeks it's worse than an attack at-tack of the rheumatism to commence again. Why, I hayo been bo sore and stiff alter dancing at Buch a time that I felt like old Rip Van Winkle alter his twenty years' sleep. Firt it's in my knee, then it's in my elbow." "Many imitgino that dancers haAe Bteel soles in their slippers that they may stand on their tucs. Is it so?" "Oh, no, no, no! Steel soles! Impossible ! They can etaud , n their bare toes as well. I myself have danced our dances with bare feet; and then tho will comes in again. If one thinks ' It will hurt my toes,' .Bhe can never dance. But if one say's ' I will Btand on my toes,' then the thing ia done." |