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Show surely nothing wrong with their instincts, but there surely is with their modern philosophy. They do like to see a public speaker use graceful gestures, and a graceful tennis player i;; admired. JSo perhaps per-haps soma day cur national variety var-iety of the specie male will return to the true faith. ball coaches of all time, Knute Rockne, insisted on all his foote-hall foote-hall stars to take dance training. Most all the world champion fighters and wrestlers have taken claiming to better their ability. Youth is the fashion, now as ever, and dancing brings the attractions at-tractions of youth to the. middle aged, by giving them an erect, buoyant carriage, a light step, a free walk, and a more animated manner, as well as strength, health and a special charm on the platform. plat-form. " i Perhaps American men really do admire grace in each other, but are reluctent to admit it, for fear of being thought effiminate. There is Dancing For Men And Boys ... by Michael Di Lello Why don't American men and boys it vail themselves of the benefits bene-fits of the best dancing, thus cultivating culti-vating a manly beauty and grace ? All dancing is not effiminate, as so many Americans seem to think. Certainly the highest art of dancing danc-ing is no more necessarily fem-me fem-me than is singing, nor can it ever be effiminate. When Apollo danced danc-ed with the muses he remained the manly god. There is manly as well as womanly dancing; a true man will in his performance avoid daintiness, femininity and affectation affect-ation as he would Sin itself. A man can appear more manly, and in the finest sense heroic, through the right kind of dancing, than in anv other way whatever. Neither slaughtering enemies, nor hunting hunt-ing animals, nor punching an opponent, op-ponent, nor lifting a horse, can invest in-vest him with such perfect and glorious manhood. A good dancer usually has a strong ph3'sique by nature, and then adds to his strength by exercises exer-cises to this end, especially in the muscles where power is most needed. need-ed. One of the most famous foot- |
