Show DA DANCING CING FOUTY FORY YEARS AGO Somebody the other day dar dug up a n dance program of forty years ago Here is the way it reads Lancers waltz toe heel-and-toe polka quadrille Newport ParisIan Parisian Paris Paris- ian varieties waltz racquet caledonia cale- cale doula donia polka waltz waltz prince imperial waltz medle medley This would be a Chinese puzzle to the modern young person He may have heard of or some of ot these names just as he has heard of the plesiosaurus These same words however meant a lot o of joy to some who are arenow arenow i inow now or old There was wasa a sort of at comradeship in the old dances that some people are Inclined to think is missing to to- to day Anyone has missed something who has not known the pleasure of ofa a long ride in a hay rack or a bobsled bobsled bobsled bob bob- sled to a big farmhouse out In the Hie country countr where to the music of at a wheezy fiddle the lancers and waltz and quadrille were danced until the midnight luncheon hour The e ne new dances ances ma may be e more sc- sc ana and the tue new music more perfectly perfectly per per- rendered But the dance cannot cannot cannot can can- not mean more to the present generation generation generation gener gener- than did dd these stately old square and round dances to many who can now recall those other days with a thrill I |