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Show Modern Dancer Needt Supply of Calories IIofcU)iiag should lay In a houvy supply sup-ply of refreshments when they expect to entertain guests who like to display dis-play their Charleston proficiency, says the Kansas City Star. An account of an exhaustive survey of the energy consumed in dancing made by a group of Scandinavian scientists at the physiological phys-iological institute of the University of Helslngfors, has Just been received at Washington which aeta down in precise pre-cise figures the number of calorie used in different kinds of dance. The waits went to the bottom of the lint with 8.99 calories used per hour per kilogram of body weight The schottlsehe, beloved of grandfather grand-father and grandmother, scored .02 of a point below the mo'dern foxtrot, os-lng os-lng 4.70 calorie while the latter required re-quired 4.T8. Th polka.' another institution in-stitution of grandmother's day, need-ad need-ad 7.66 calories an hour, while the maiurka, evidently the fastest dance the learned Scandlnavtana could gt anyone to practice for them, took 10.87 calories, er almost twice the amount of energy consumed by th stonecutter plying hla trade. |