WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 178, 23 April 1919, Page 5

WOMAN'S WORLD

1 (Continued from Pago 4) A CURE FOR BAD TEMPER Is dancing the secret of eternal youth? Mm. Wordsworth, who Ims been teaching dancing for over 55 years and is still teaching—and dancing—is of opinion (lial it is (states a writer in the "Daily. News." "Jyvcryono should dnnco, and go on dancing juet as long as ever they can, and there's no reason why wo all shouldn't live to he over a hundred," said Mrs. Wordsworth. "After all, there is nothing better than regulated exercise to ta-ko people, young or old, out of themselves. It lias' an extraordinary effect not only on the body, but on morals as well! Yes, that, is a fact—and I have proved it over and over again in the cases of bad-tempered and obstinate children, who, after a course of dancing and physical culture lessons, havo become absolutely reformed characters. To my mind dancing and physical culture are as im> purtant as any. other branch of cduealion." "Dancing must have changed greatly since you first began to leach ?' I queried. "It has indeed. Fashions in ballroom (Inncing are as transient as any other fashions. The pre.-'ent-day dancing is simple in the extreme j perhaps that is vhv so many older people indulge in it! j I only liko to see it done in a beautiful and graceful way. Unfortunately it is ; co often carried to extremes, and then it j becomes outre. The names of modern ; dances do not appeal to me. Fox-trot, j tickle-toe, jazz, do not to my mind in- , •Jieato beauty.' But, after all, 'a rose by j any other name ' One of the most i charming dances we havo ever lind or t wo shall'ever have is the waltz which i Queen Alexandra introduced when she first came to England. I must say, how- , ever, that dancing has made a most ex- : traordinary advance within the last fifty I years. It is no longer regarded as a ; wickedness, as it often was in tnose by- I gone days, but is now looked upon as i\ | natural "means to an end—to the attain- ; ment of health, exercise, and enjoyni'nt. ; The present generation aro far better j dancers than their mothers and grand- j mothers were. They love their dancing : classes, and they begin as young as two • years old. Of course, the children mostly : ilo step-dancing and physical culture, but tlicv learn ballroom dancing as well— and do' it most charmingly. In somo cases I am toaohing the third generation is; succession, ami. in spite of that, 1 can assure yon my interest in the art of d;iiicing is as great as ever it has been."