NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

> I low the fashions in dances have changed." writes "N". -Sonic twenty years ago a young girl never dreamed of going fa a dame withoui being Hik.-n ihe:e by a friend. relative, parents or a chaperon, and the imprint, on 'the ball ticket, reading ‘Donnie ticket lt!>: single 7>. 04.. ‘ simply meant a lady and gentleman 10s; single gentleman 7.s (id. Now. all that is digged The girl of to-day. has been emancipated. and the single ticket applies as much to her as to him. Inc.eed, it goes further -a girl may even buy a double ticket, t’-iid being so possessci will sometimes ring tip a young mm. and ask him to come along as hot wue-t —which he often does. «»at. However, is profoundly amazing to a man of an older generation is the freedom with which young men— eol.ege youths and university students—will ‘ling up’ or ask a girl if she will go to a dance (i.e.. paying her own way.). Such is the emancipation the fair sex

has undergone that- she as often as not agrees to this arrangement. I don't know whether the young lady lias been -o ‘email; mated’ as the young man. who 1 hereby e-cape- a. great deal of this expense hi- faliier was put to in making himself agreeable to bis (the young mail's) mother. In my day a dance was more or loss democratic social amenity. That, however, is all changed now. One goes to u ihmcc mid throughout tile evening keeps to the one partner. That would have liven a scandal twenty years ago. Not only i- this tin* common vogue, but young couples become their own 'dancing partners,’ a term which i- not meant to convey anything 11 mre than it says; and so u couple may dance together, almost exclusively, for an entire season without evoking anything, other than a rai-cd eye-brow. So we have it that the -caudal of one generation becomes t!u* fashion of the next. Our world keeps rolling on, heedless of time and custom. Where semi-naked eannitoils dance'! their war dances only a hundred years ago. our children jazz aluu-t continually (ala! almost 11s lightly <|ad on the one sidel. with their ‘dancing partners,' forsooth! In place of the lancers, quadrilles. d'Alhen-. polka, waltz, mazurkas and selmitisclu*. which everybody danced once upon a time, there is only the one rhvthmieal shuffle-—the jazz."