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Show Ranch-House Dances Give Way to Bridge Sonora, Texas. Ranch house dances, long the most popular diversion diver-sion on the cowboy's social calendar, have given way to bridge, radio and house parties in this Isolated stock- j raising section of Texas. Gatherings at which cowhands and ' their fair friends execute odd terpsi ! chorean steps to such tunes as "Cotton-Eye Joe" are undertaken now only I as a "take-off" on days of yesteryear. I Young folks on the ranches motor to the nearest towns to seek recreation, or they spend their evenings at home listening to the radio or playing bridge. Week-end house parties, in ! which young folks from the towns I join, have become common in the new j social life of the ranch country. 1 |