Show how it started bejean by JEAN NEWTON why do we call a dancing party a ball THIS HIS Is a question which must certainly have occurred to many of us who have an inquiring turn of mind now we all know what a ball Is we have played with all manner of them from infancy up baseballs footballs oot balls tennis balls but wily why should we call a dancing party a ball the first answer that suggests itself Is ih tant t this must be a different kind of b ball all one spelled and pronounced the same but meaning and rooted in something different this however Is not the fact both words ore are identical and the allusion in the case of a dancing party Is to the early practice of combining a game of ball with the dancing derived from the game of ball played in church by the dean and choir boys of naples during tile the feast of fools 0 1932 dell ell syndicate service |