Show drug store glide Is the latest in washington HE drugstore drug store glide is here during these torrid evenings with the fahrenheit T THE thermometers thermo vying with bethlehem Bethle Beth lenera nem stocks in the battle tor for a ascendancy a cen dancy the popularization of the modem dances goes upward and onward with speed of 0 a teutonic advance in the eastern theater of war with the time of the evening ball and the either past or future young washington has adopted the soda fountain cotillion which Is nothing more or less than a dance in the emporiums devoted to the disposition of confectioneries confection eries and sweet beverages mount pleasant and columbia heights led off but other sections r have been enveloped in the fad and now practically every residential section has one of these retreats where youthful couples may dance while awaiting the preparation of their tion producing prescription it has even traveled downtown all of 0 these places have either highly polished wooden or tile floors which make excellent gliding surfaces the music comes from a or it if adjoining a cafe or a hotel or exclusive apartment house the music Is furnished by the regular orchestra the formula is simply to order the drink and while the dispenser Is drawing shaking or shoveling according to what the order might be the couple glides oft off in a two step hesitation fox trot or some other gyration the drink served one half Is drunk and then comes an informal intermission sion during this hiatus another dance Is engaged glass Is drained a parting whirl Is enjoyed y v the girl politely declines a secona second drink but after ft a short walk the couple either returns to the original place or seeks out some similar establishment lish lish ment where the same courtesies are arp understood and extended some particularly shy and delaur demure maidens were rather loath to accept the invitations of the management offered through signs which simply read dancing but now it has become rather conventional and there Is little hesitancy in joining the others on the floors |