LIKE SAVAGES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2987, 16 January 1926, Page 1

LIKE SAVAGES.

HOW TO DANCE. DOCTOR’S ADVICE. LONDON, Dec. 31. “The year 1926 would be the healthiest on record if people would follow the simple rules of nature,” says an eminent doctor, who is a member of the new Health Society. “If the knowledge of diet the world possesses were applied ikul.Y in the selection of food by every family in Europe and America there would be within a generation a wonderful improvement in the bodily size, symmetry and vigour of the people. “We ought to abolish modern dances and adopt those of the savage tribes, of New Guinea and the South Sea Islands for the purpose of exercising the abdominal muscles. The tango, fox trot, waltz, and one-step have degenerated into a mere walk. Quadrilles aiid lancers would be better. Fencing, swimming, rowing and boxing are all excellent, but pat ball, tennis and golf are not complete exercises. Golfers’ abdominal muscles are generally slack.” WHERE G.B.S. FAILS. Although He regards himself as an admirable exponent of the two-step and fox-trot. Mr Bernard Shaw, the veteran dramatist, now in his 70th year, after repeated lessons, confesses that he cannot learn the French tango, which he describes as “a terpsichorean anomaly.”