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Show COMMUNICATION Objects to Pigeon Walk. Salt Lake. Jan. 7. Editor Ti ihune Never before in the history of dancing In Ptah has the line between proper and improper 1a rtcins been so clearly drawn as now, and, if one dances at all, he will he forced to line up on either one side or the other. Tne first, the quiet, modest and graceful grace-ful style of the true la civ and gentleman. gentle-man. The second, the immodest style of the. vulgarian, a sample of whitdi is the pigeon walk, a silly little step from Bur-nary Bur-nary coast, San Franrisco, typical of the low life of the dark alleys of larpe cities. This common little step. done, not danced, to all kinds of music, whether rhythmically correct or not, thoush coming- from the slums, has infected the Salt Lake dancing public like a plague. "Such labored nothings in so strange 1 a style. ; Amaze th t lie unlearned and rnaketh I the learned smile." ' So far as I can. team, this little piece ! of folly la danced onlv in California and Utah. How different are the new dances, standardized by the various associations of masters of dances of America and taught by recognized teachers from coast to coast. These new dances are the one -step, fox trot, waltz modern and the three-step, three-step, all beautiful and refined, diversified, diversi-fied, yet not intricate or bard to learn. Each dance comprises four well-defined and consistent figures, built to music. Neither the ruffian nor the degenerate will ever dance them; they are not their style, but ladies and gentlemen will, in time. SUBSCRIBER. |