DANCER'S BEAUTY SLEEP

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 February 1913, Page 6

DANCER'S BEAUTY SLEEP

" —+ Drastic reform (says tlio New York correspondent of the Daily Mail) is the keynote of New York's most exclusive ballrooms, where last season the younger votaries of fashion persuaded hostesses to establish tho custom of all-night dances, beginning with champagne suppers and ending at 6 o'clock in the morning with breakfasts of ham and eggs, cotl'oe and muffins. At a ball given recently by Mrs Stuyvcssant Fisk, who had taken the lead in the campaign against the "Turkish-trot" craze and all the queer and vulgar dances to which it hais given rise, such as "chicken dip, : ' "jelly roll," "crab crawl," "tortoise tangle," "angleworm wriggle," the musicians ceased playing aiul began packing their instruments as the clock climed twelve. The dancers gazed in amazement at seeing their hostess standing smiling near the door, ready t:> bid them gcod-night. "So glad yott came," was Mis Fisk's faro-.vol I to her guests. "Now go home end gc-t your I)entity sleep." Mrs Fisk, pro- ! foundly impressed by the "wildtiess and frivolity of many of our fashionable leaders," "to pjiposo terpischoroai, excesses, which' do tin! ' encourage refined styles of dancing'. Her example has been followed by the Junior Cotillion, an all-powerful* organisation of the vounger "smart sot " which has just decreed a revival of the waltz, polka-, and older dances, in conjunction with a rule that, d.incing should cease at midnight., followed immediately by supper, so that everyone could he in bed by 2 o'clock.