Show THE EASTERN DANCE it Is a product of physical endurance begun in early youth one of the most attractive features of the recent exposition in paris was the eastern dancing girls in half a dozen or more booths or tents scattered about the grounds these strangers of another world and civilization held their unique receptions the spectacle to Vc stem eyes is so entirely new and unprecedented that the first effect of it is mere astonishment after further experience its strangeness begins to resolve itself into beauty we can discriminate between the comparative merits of dancers and dispense applause judiciously writes julian hawthorne in dress A narrow stage occupies one end of the room which may be thirty six feet square on the stage in a semicircle semi circle sit the dancers and the musicians the latter produce a concert chiefly with a sort of drums and pipes that emit a noise not unlike the scream of a bagpipe it is a bewildering exciting noise which after awhile begins to heat the brain and hurry the pulse in the midst of it a young woman rises swathed about in silks and mullins muslins mus lins and with bangles and necklaces jingling and sparkling at every movement her body sways easily between her haunches and her air is partly indolent and partly suggestive of latent vigor As she faces the audience undulations pass through her body and these undulations are not only lateral but vertical any one who has observed the belly of a snake in motion has seen the counterpart of this movement while the undulations are going 0 the girl is in other respects performing a slow graceful and languid dance tier arms rise and fall and wave about her head she turns her face from side to side and occasionally as if in a voluptuous dream her feet shifting rhythmically and without haste and ever and anon she turns completely round but always slowly and deliberately the marvel and singularity of the performance lies in the undulations of the front of the body it is impossible for a european to produce even the germ of such a movement the girls have been trained from early childhood in the use of groups of muscles of the very existence of which we are ignorant their control of them is absolute the extent and power of the contractions is astonishing in a european it would be almost revolting vol ting but in these oriental damsels the effect is different we recognize that the dance is natural to them that it belongs to their race and genius and that it has come down to them from an epoch as ancient as the sides of the pyramids and the infancy of buddha it is not to be criticized criticised by our crude contemporary standards of convention fashion or morality it is to be accepted wondered at cpr what it is and has been since the east was the east care for diphtheria A peasant physician named bieger of glogau in silesia announces a cure for diphtheria which an agent of the emperor has examined and reported very favorably upon it is thought to be a mixture of extracts from two or three common weeds and an oil the salve resulting from the mixture is liquefied and applied with a brush to the interior of the throat the remedy was discovered by s father a shepherd it was applied by liim only to external wounds once when young whole herd was dying of diphtheria he in despair of all other means began treating their throats with the salve the favorable effect was apparent almost immediately and in a few days every licad of cattle was well again shortly afterward diphtheria became epidemic in the village eicher was invariably called to give his remedy in the most severe cases and almost without exception it was followed by recovery gradually its fame spread till today to day he is receiving calls to cure persons of diphtheria all over germany the cures that have contributed most to his reputation were effected a few weeks ago in the family of the freiherr Freih crr von in berlin the ministry of education in russia has issued a circular forbidding all persons of high standing in the mann cement of schools and colleges to allow authors to dedicate their works to them works of a very indifferent and and in some instances even of an objectionable nature if they are dedicated to persons of in the educational circles necessarily enjoy the patronage of those persons and find more readers than is desirable |