| Show A rl FlU PA PAIt It 11 I Is not easy euy to account for tor the taste of oC the upper strata of oele Tho coke cake walk adopted from Southern has barely had time to pas into IntI the domain of d fads tILlis be before I tore fore another singular freak trenk ot of reline meat ment Is In evidence New York papers tell ot of one of at the select elect ladles ladies giving on an entertainment one feature of which was a 11 Filipino dance and musicale The Tho account says ays that the great number on the program was the bride dance performed by Senorita Felipe who wore a 11 red shirt o a white that looked like an nb ab a lace face kerchief and a wreath of white ross roses Following the bride dance danco came II a Filipino fandango go danced b by a native woman who wore wore a sh short rt black satin gown spangled and a white head dress The tour four men muon In the troupe played various arioul Three were dressed In the fashionable attire of the better chars of Filipinos and ono one was thatched with straw wearing II a straw covered root roof for tor n a hat and a straw overcoat cut much on the lie lines of at the automobile coat with II a whole back Mine 18 Margaret the dusky nightingale also took part The feat Is capable of varia Irla variation tion and n as n a steD has been taken on the descending scale eale from Southern colored citizens to natives the tho pr presumption Is the direction down downnard downward ward nard will still be followed until blase society cnn can amusement only In the weird gyrations of naked savages And at this point the extremes touch for or tt It Is J that some of the shows arranged b hr members of the highest society Bodel lire are neither In decency nor ar artistic artistic beauty benub above the l level e of the orgies of untutored races race Is the ten dene of modern society Should the FIlipino danoe tad fad as popular as was the senseless cake there will be II a boom In the im or of Ino girls and who vho knows but that the they would corrupt the too of tI the pure and ond immaculate New York society Hetter chose the Doris Orts against all duk dusky II Iii andera os as against the |
