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Show of dancing,, which thus sorted out the savages, mating the best with the. host, and giving the best the best chance for offspring, the best chance to beget the gayer, handsomer, hand-somer, stronger and more artist ic race who are ourselves, their descendants. de-scendants. Dancing has always been to provide a happy association associa-tion of men and women, and to further their marriage. Origin of Dancing v. By Michael Di Lello Dancing, we find, is practiced all over the world, among every tribe, even the most primitive and remote, re-mote, like the Bushmen and the Fuegians, at the far extremities of Africa and South America. Always the dance of such tribes is as rude and unelaborated as their way of life, but it is unmistakably dancing, danc-ing, rhythmic and musical with singing and fixed plan, and usually us-ually with pantomime, costuming and the presence of both sexes. Dancing is the sweetest and most perfect of human enjoyments. It would be hard to overestimate the importance of the primitive dance in the culture development of mankind. man-kind. Who shall say how much in our very being, of beauty, grace, strength and artistic sensibility we owe to those ancient festivals |