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Show MEASURES HARD WORK IN MODERN DANCES Harvard Student Wears Pedometers While Doing the Tango and the Hesitation. By International News .Service. BOSTOX, May 31. A scientific Harvard, Har-vard, student has measured the hard work in modern dances. Ho wont to a dauce aud rsLiricd along two pedometers, pedo-meters, one that he attached to his log when executing the tango and the other oth-er when dancing the hesitation. Tn dancing the tango five times, with, encores, ho covered 4. 1-4 miles. That makes an average of ovor four-; fifths of a mile per dance. Tho hesitation, hesi-tation, which was gatidwichod in between be-tween tho maxixr and tango, served as a rest cure, for in four hesitation waltzes the pedometer recorded only a little moro than a half mil e, or one-eighth one-eighth of a niilo per dance. During an evening, which Includes about CO dances, thcro are usually half that mini-I mini-I ber of t&ugws, five of six hesitations j aud the rest mnxixes. A dancing couple therrt'ore travels, roughly, over VI miles during the evening. In the course of a single maxixe the masculine part tier supports three-p:ar ters of the bodily weight of his partner about Co timc nnd making the averaeo weight of the L.'irl 1 n i pounds, it 1? eav to enl-ubite tl:nt the man lift nenrbv CO 0l po-nd.s, or a wh'-!o ton, iit:ring tl-.e course of each maxixe dnne. |