Show OLD I DANCE BACKI BACK I Ministers and nd moralists may harangue to their hearts heart content and manners and customs remain unchanged But Dut let fashion take taka a hand and presto the th deed Is done Thus with the tb dancing of ot the jungle The gyrations ration of ot the I Charleston may be ho neither grace grace- lul crace-lul tat fut nor elevating but bu but they rage rago on every ballroom floor Now fashion decrees decree that at least part ot of the time young youns oun and old may tread the graceful measures of the tho old fashioned dances dance and what the reformers urged Is I accomplished accomplished by the th vogue rogue For that boon boon the country has Henry rord Ford to thank It was surely more than a sentimental whim which inspireS Inspired Mr Ford to spend pend thousands of dollars dollars- In reviving the old dances dance It must have ha been a sound belief that these old dances meet a social need untilled unfilled by th the unsociable end two some dance I I It was wa not because Mr Ford was If 1 prude prud or a prIg prie that he sought to revive the group croup dances It must have been because he saw that the th modern dance with its lis foolish little shuffle and Its hint of jUngle savagery was not suIted to the middle aged and andI older people who only made them them- themselves themselves selves ridiculous by gyrating ceaselessly on a ballroom floor For little Mis Miss Flapper to hang on the th arm ann of a male eater cake cake and shuttle shuffle and through a modem modern dance was one thing The spec spectacle cle tIde aside from being a little risque as to suggestion Is mildly amusing Cut But tor for dowagers of mature figure and white haired white business men of rotund girth to simper and balance with Ith foolish little mUe Insinuating steps to the th a I tad which If Jf not bordering on the disgusting at least lea t takes heavy toll of the th ridiculous So now thanks thank to the tb tact fact that Mr Ford has ha organized an old old- old fashioned fashioned orchestra published an authentic book on old old fashioned dances and given civen free fre Instruction to dancing teachers all over the country the th fall season finds us with ith a new old form tonn of entertain entertain- entertainment ment meat which is highly social not selfish la jn its Hs nature a form torm of entertainment which appeals to groups rather than Individuals and which is happily suited to both young and old ole In proof of the tact fact act that has actually given Iven her stamp of approval to this delightful pastime Is the statement offered on hear hear- hearsay hearsay say rather than actual proof that the dancing teachers who were most successful last year lat were those who taught the th old fashionS td ad dances This statement it II seems cm was w 81 made at the tho th last na- na national na national meeting of ot dancing school schoolteachers schoolteachers teachers The Th reformers will hall hail this tact fact with delight because they con con- consider consider sider elder the th modern modem dances dance wicked But Dut that Is not cot exactly the point for the lh th devotees devotee ot of the modem mod mod- cm em em dance will reply with th the Ie Ie le- le legend gend of ot the order of the garter Evil be b to him who evil think think think-eth oth eth No it Is not a matter ot of good or bad It Is I a matter ot of or The old tash dance Is a democratic socIal affair In which many join and andI I which by Its It ease ear and grace crac Is I suited to young oung and old stylish and and stout flout sophisticated andun and Un- Un Unsophisticated un unsophisticated sophisticated alike Hero Here Is a form of entertainment that par par- par hall hail with delight |