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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2080, 4 January 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

Two Gorman foreman ami ono I miilrod and ton Chinese minors have boon killed by an explosion ;n ihe Fangtse mino in Cbina. There are plenty of people n lie 00111plain that the ball pmgr ammo of today show* no variety of daneem and efforts are made oaoli year by the jirineipal daneing instructors in London to introduces now steps and movements, but they all have given up hope of ever reviving the minuet or other stately dances. It is slid that the muscular young woman of the period is incapable of performing the dignified steps with grace, while the masculine evening dress, as we know it. is unite forbidding. The minuet demands powder and patches, brocade and high-heeled shoes, and these are quite out of the question when black suits and two-buttoned gloves, usually a size too largo or too small, are the only masculine evening wear. When the minuet was the fashionable dance, deportment was studied by both men and women : hut nowadays men and women do not deport themselves. but hurry and shuffle along. A London professor of dancing thinks that if hostesses took the matter in bind the art of real dancing would he revived. Hi' says that a good dancing master should ho quite capable of inventing round or square dunces, and they could bo named after the organiser of the entertainment at which they first appear, as in the days of reels and strathspeys. Mit+lmril.r cnivtt t.IlU.f U’llftll