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Show THE DANCE, DANCING MUSIC AND" DANCERS. A local dancing master has asked the direct question, ""What is wjinii.mi i3gg3mum,Tjgrsm;i..'iii.iiTii.M) -.,. - - - t i i im .' r-ini iiw.ii ! Mill tho Turkey Trot or the Grizzly Bear, in what particular does either dance differ from the waltz or two-step?" We have confessed ignorance and the dancing . master has promised to enlighten us, offering to prove by 'demonstration that neither dance is harmful in itself, although two of the dances are burdened with suggestive names. Some one has said that the popular dances are not harmful but that the rag-time music, played while the movements are being executed, exe-cuted, creates bad thoughts. Perhaps, after all, the wickedness is not in the dance nor the music, but in the minds of those who but need the time and the place to bo bad in thought. If the Grizzly Bear is graceful and the rag-time is tuneful, and if tho thoughts of the dancers arc centered on the delightful rhythm and the charm of the companionship which is theirs, the dancing master may be right when he says that the waltz is not less an incentive to evil to those who are evil inclined. So we await an answer to this pertinent question : "What is the difference between the waltz and the turkey troU" |