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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIANV PORTLATTD, OCTOBER 3, 1915. 1HT 99 encon : It a New Tciixnchotfean Conco ction fifem Chili. k C : -it I II I H 1 "V 11 XTAtM. I M"woerv s i i , c : . 3 m -k .Sk. it & ""WSJ- ?7 s. A V 1 .ah. M I Ik.'-. jr -m -v ""-T 'V - Open cross- over Hep -before" lady dancez around thet gentleman in tke fencon. .Photo b Dttbkjj AS our tango came from South America, so enters the Perlcon from south of Chili. As in the modern day when things move rapidly. Just so with the dance the enthusiastic dancer of today Is seeking and demand ing: knowledge of this new dance the Pericon which is said to be the "dance of tomorrow" in the dancing: world. There are hundreds of expert dancers who enjoy dancing: for the sake of the dance and are ever seeking- the newest tempos. The most important thins in dancing: now is not so much how many steps one takes as the style and tempo that it is done in. The most popular tempo in dancing: has always been the three-quarter, or that commonly known as the waltz time. We have had the besltatton in. the waltz tempo time, the lame duck, the new present canter, and here again is a new form of the dance used to three-quarter time, known as the Pericon." which is really a more exemplified form of the tango style. Every dance has Us own particular style. The new popular staccato ex pressed and effected in this new Peri con again repeats the simple three quarter tempo, but accents on the pri mary beat of each measure. There is a walk in the Pericon which marks the beginning: of all our modern dances, bringing the accent according: to the dance on the correct foot. Proper Position. At the present moment , the position of the dancers Is almost continually Standardized. And what is standard po NED, THE HUMAN TORPEDO NED was reading war news. The terrible loss of life and de struction of homes made him srery eorry for the European children iwhose fathers were taken from them fco cruelly. But that did not keep him from enjoying the stories of exciting battles on sea and land. He was par ticularly interested in sea fighting. "My!" he exclaimed one evening. "I'd like to be captain of one of those submarines I mean submersibles." Ned knew the difference between a Submarine and submersible as well as between a cruiser and a battleship. Jn fact, you might have thought he had spent many years as the admiral NAMING THE When "children come, no matter where. They're born with eyes and teeth and hair; With hands and legs you'd suppose And even with a tiny nose; But why on earth? and who's to blame For borning us without a name? There's not a thing in any book As sweet as our new baby's look. I've read the great big dictionary Maud! Louisa! Kate! and Mary! Genevieve! and Isabelle! But nothing seems to fit her well. i I'll" a i pvf ! 1 5 Y 'ill I sition? Why, it is the correct position the lady stands in front of her part ner about two inches, or slightly to the left, facing: him. her right hand held In the gentleman's left, her fingers in his palm, the man's fingers overlapping the back of her hand. The hands should come about 20 inches from the head: his other hand resting under the left shoulder blade of his partner and her left hand is lightly placed on the man's shoulder. A good dancer never holds his partner closer than four to six Inches. It will be found, if his position be taken correctly, that when the gen tleman steps forward with his right foot and the lady back with her left he s stepping slightly to the left of her foot, whether the step be taken with either foot, and prevents the mis fortune of stepping on the lady's toes. Mrs. Rollie Downes, who is intro ducing the Pericon in the East, offers a few suggestions about this latest terpsichorean effect. "The Pericon is commenced with a walk," said Mrs. Dowries, "and the walk is introduced whenever desired, as in the use of the walk in the tango, only more decided, or even longer steps, in a catlike manner with straight limbs and narrow action. This is the secret of grace in the modern dances. "The Pericon Is now being danced by professionals and Is being simplified for general ballroom use. There are always about four steps in every mod ern dance, but the possibilities are un limited. A new tempo always excites of a navy. But the truth is that he never so much as saw a ferryboat, much less a battlehip or submarine I mean submersible. He got most of his nautical knowledge from maga zines and from Grandpa who just then spoke up: "Ned, what would you do if you were captain of a submersible and a big battleship started to ram you?" "Why, I'd I'd send a torpedo into its hull and sink it. Then it would be sroodnight Mr. Battleship." "Suppose you had just fired your last torpedo at the ship and it started to ram you and you couldn't make the submersing device work?" "I suppose I'd say my prayers and NEW BABY She's more like blossoms in the Spring Than any other living thing. And so I got a book with flowers And studied it for many hours Clover, Pansy. Hollyhock. Buttercup and Four o'Clock! And then I said. "Oh Mother dear. I know you'll think it very queer, I've read and read and read and read To get a name into my head.' And yet of all the ones there may be The only one that suits is 'Baby!' " Pr-Ht it- - fit If Willi w : ' , .a., : F?l ' I r I W c ""til Vt I IS I liS I t i Forward position in aaltz itep before turn it taken t ' ,1 S1 V- I if tSJSSS t dance for themselves and f ir part- l'h, W 4 . ' Iff - j I nil I j .Second step in the "Pcrtcof' xcith use vj,iamp oy the foot. riioi by lMMcu. the interest of the dancing public, and since the Pericon has a new tempo in- wish I had got a Job as captain of a battleship instead of a submersible." It was not strange that when Ned went to sleep that night he dreamed about battleships and submarines. He ' found himself on a submersible, but not as captain. The captain was an old man who stood at the periscope (the mirror through which he saw the ships on the surface), and gave orders in a very gruff voice. "Here. you, Ned." he shouted. "Make ready this torpedo and send it from the port forward tube when I give the word. Double quick there!" This was a rare treat to Ned. and he felt iritghty important as he started the mechanism to going and awaited the captain's order. The whirr of the deadly missile as it slid through the tube filled him with much pleasure. "I don't care if I am not captain." he said to himself. "I'd rather fire torpedoes than look through a peri ecope." Then he heard the captain exclaim, "There, Ned! you missed it. You must have failed to start the right propeller. That ship's going to ram us if we're not careful. Get another ready for the rear port tube." Soon Ned was sending torpedo after torpedo at the enemy, but none seemed to take effect. Maybe the ship was protected by a wire netting, but the captain didn't seem to thank of that And thtu Ned discovered that not another torpedo was left! He hast ened to tell the captain. "What!"' thundered his superior. "Wasted them all and not even touched the enemy?" "Y-yes. sir," replied Ned. timidly. "Put him in irons." shouted the cap tain. Three men stepped forward and Ned found himself a prisoner. "Now, men." said the captain to the crew, "what had we better do with this fellow? Ned has always been an expert gunner, but he has proved himself a traitor and has wasted all the torpedoes. When we get ashore we will have Ned shot." Ned felt very miserable. "Haven't we any more ammunition at all. men?" the captain asked. "We have a 16-inch shell here, sir," reported one of the crew, "but of course we can't ise it " The captain scowled at Ned. "Yes, we can use it." he snapped. "Take the prisoner to the forward port tube." Ned wondered what on - earth or under the sea the captain could mean. He soon found out. "Tie the prisoner's hands above his head and lash the shell to them." When this was done the captal.i said: "Now. young man. you're a human ' torpedo. I am going to run this sub mersible close to the enemy and fire you at Its hulL Even yet you may serve our king and country. Fare well, Neci." The boy and the shell were placed -i.: - X --st mill' . -r i .w. S M k as. terest will be centered In the dance, similar to the The Pericon is in a way in the tube, and a few moments later they were shot out into the sea! Al most strangled, Ned could not cry out. He only felt himself shooting head first through the water. On and on be sped, and at last "Ug blub! Oh-h! Mamma!" He was awake and the nearest thing to a ship he saw was his bed stead. And his hands were not tied at all. "I'm glad I m not a torpedo," he said to himself, "and don't exactly care to die Just yet" At breakfast grandpa was reading the D-1S had sunk three battleships the day before. "Oh. grandpa." said Ned, . "please stop it. It's always war news noth ing but war, war, war. How did the baseball team come out yesterday?" It was grandpa's turn to be sur prised. Our Puzzle Corner BEHEADINGS. Behead what falls in Winter and leave the present time. Behead a boy's toy and leave every thing. Behead that which is rowed and leave a cereal. Behead the entire and leave a tear. Behead a testament and leave not well. Behead a part of a window and leave a Scotch maiden. Behead a piece of furniture and leave an exclamation of pain. Behead a low seat and leave a car penter s necessity. Behead a hurt and leave a part of the human body. JUMBLED QUOTATION. Own onwks ehwreth hte osdg liwl dad motowror ot het sereptn ohur. Glrivl. ANSWERS. . Beheadings: S-now. B-alL B-oat W-whole. W-ill, G-lass, C-ouch. S-tool, H-arm. Jumbled ' Quotation: Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour. VirglL Father's Baby, Willie's Lady. Judge. "But my daughter's too young to marry, young man. She's Just barely a miss." "She may seem that way to you, sir, but she's a hit with me." ' vs"r solution t Leai and Acara Fmnle. - iOpen position xchen lady dances around gentleman fox trot and tango. In a fundamental style. "One thing a dancer should always hold fast to dance in time. There are many who invariably dance chead of the music and spoil the spirit ot the FLOWERS AVE you ever seen anyone who I I would lovintrlv tend little "flow. jL-m. era" of mould? The other day we were invited inside the laboratory of a certain renowned botanist He was a "micologlst," which means that he makes researches in the dark and mys terious ways of various kinds of fungi. He has watched the mushroom In every stage of growth and his observations are quoted in learned books. He is working on a history of - fungi, but some of his leisure time is taken up with making delicate little hair line drawings of mushroom spores, his "pat- terns" looking like new designs In some quaintly-imagined wallpaper. In his laboratory you will see the humble "mould" that comes on vege tables, for instance, carefully studied. We saw one horrible looking object in a Jar. brown, with long "fingers." With disgust in our tones we cried: "What's that?" And the laughed as he answered: "Just some bean pods In water, half 'covered with mould nothing to be afraid of." A glass, box filled with river mud held something fairy-like In Its depths the thread-like, filmy waving Algae and all kinds of feathery water plants. Any boy could have one of these de lightful "surprise boxes" for bis very own, to watch and study and would find it a pastime of great interest Some one asked the professor: "Is it true that nothing poisonous grows in the Far North?" "What about the fungus, known as the Fly-Agaric (amanlta muscarla) V he questioned In his turn, and he showed us a picture of a very beautiful scarlet-orange mushroom mlecked with white, like big flakes of snow. These grow on the ground in or near the woods and some of the species are very poisonous A tribe In Kamschatka dries the mushrooms and then the men chew four or five apiece, intoxicating themselves with the poi son. They are beautiful objects In the Northern woods in Autumn, with their bright caps dotted with white. Others are pure white or of varying shades of yellow or green. Some fungi moulds and yeast ap pear to be distributed all over the earth.- Many parts of the world, bow ever, remain to be explored aa far as fungi are concerned. New specie are constantly being discovered in the United States and Northern Europe. The north temperate regions, so far. seem richest in species. Every -time wood, plants, wheat, fruit, etc. Is sent from one country to another It means the transmission of fungi; birds, too, carry these minute organisms and so do currents of air and water. What is really Jn them what are they made of? In the cells under the microscope botanists have discovered oil drops, often colored, crystals of cal' cium oxalate and resin: but the mi- dance ners. "The Pericon is danced both in the Argentine Republic and in the southern part of Chili. It is danced only by the 'Gouchos' cowboys. In Chill it is called the 'queque' or zama queque.' The name Pericon means in Knglish the 'knave of clubs' in the game of 'qulnalos'; It also means 'large fan,' but this has no relation to the dance. "The dance, like the tango and all dances as originally danced, could not be danced by the people of Europe or ourselves,, but it has wonderful possi bilities, and when modified and danced to the beautiful music written for It. with objectionable features omitted, it is a wonderfully attractive and grace ful dance. "As we have all noticed, the dances when first introduced usually use every beat for a step, but as the dance pro gresses and is smoothed out the twist OF MOULD croscope cannot see the glycogen.yeast etc.. which re-agents reveal. Chemical analysis will also show sometimes sugars, acids (acetic, citric and lichen), etheral oils and a number of powerful alkaloid poisons. You can even make ink out of mushrooms, did you know that? We saw a sample of its pen manship in the hands of our pre'es sor. And now do you ask, as we did, what is the good of all this painstaking re search, as far .as real practical results are concerned? The professor looked at us more in sorrow than In anger. Wouldn't you like to know how to keep mildew off gooseberries? Or rust from wheat? Can you translate Pas teur into dollars and cents?" Subdued in spirit and afraid of asking more foolish questions, we stole silently out of the professor's laboratory when he wasn't looking. He was watching a mould flower and be hasn't missed us yet October in History October Choate. October dre. October town. October thur. October October 1. 1799 Birth of Rufus 2. 1780 Birth of Major An 4. 1777 Battle of German- 6. 1830 Birth of Chester Ar- 6. 1821 Birth of Jenny Lind. 7, 176r First Colonial Con gress at New York. October 8, 1871 Chicago fire. October 8, 1869 Death of President Pierce. October 8. 1839 Birth of John Hay. LEAF AND This little girl has been out gather See If you can find an oak leaf an spots and fitting them together of the foot or step known as the eor tez' is introduced, so that we frequently find this used in the one-step as well, and effects a pretty turn. "In the Pericon one of the most prominent steps is the stamp step, con sisting of six stamps. "The true and original Pericon is started by the ,glrl with her back toward the cowboy, and as in all these peasantry dances the stamp of the foot and general swing done in slow, ryth mical motions." Moral Keep a Pencil Handy. Christian Herald. Thoughts come to us as strangers for the first time, jr as friends who have been present before. If we do not en tertain the stranger or the friend they will not remain. Neither will' the thoughts if we do not entertain them. The man without many friends is poor. but the man without many thoughts is doubly poor. October 12. 1492 Landing of Colum bus at San Salvador. October 14. 1644 Birth of William Penn. October 17. 1777 Burgoyne's surren- der October 18. 1831 Birth of Helen Hunt Jackson. October IS. 17S1 Surrender of Corn wallis. October 26. 1863 Red Cross Society organized. October 27. 1858 Birth of Theodore .Roosevelt October 28. 1S86 Statue of Liberty unveiled in New York harbor. October 30. 1825 Birth of Adelaide Proctor. October 30. 1735 Birth of John Adams. SHE WANTED SOME WIIITE FOLKS, "1 have had a number of strange requests made of me." said the trained nurse, "but 1 think the 'most pathetio one came from a small colored child. I was taking my training in one of the biggest hospitals in the country and was for my sins in the colored ward. I take that 'for my sins' back here and now for it is unjust As a matter of fact 1 never saw any one more grateful than the colored pa- -tients in a hospital are. for any at tention, and, moreover, if any one In the ward starts a song, or more es pecially a hymn, all of them except ' those so ill that they cannot raise their heads, join in the singing, their rich voices ringing out with much vigor. "However the little colored girl I am telling you about was only 5 years old. and was convalescent She trotted after me around the ward most of the day and seemed to be very fond of me. Finally one day she sidled up to me and took my hand. 'Missy.' said she. won't you be my white folks?1 Now if that wasn't pathetic, what was it?" ACORN Pt'MLE. ing ball leaves. d an acorri by cutting out the black