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HIE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, - PORTLAND, SUNDAY EORNING, SEPTEMBER' 6. 1905 I f M0fmf r-: asaf : I I v., v.'. .4-. f V , -' sis?v ?' i "" v'C " i;: VR ;v',itc' I-.' . II! , . j-i ! .', III : i ' ' ' -' ; J i'i t II - li ,."':'.' I , 4- ';:. ll L, ,a . ...' "-.- . I . III t ; '.-. A I I ivr.'-:pf ! i: f.k -Y, I 'l t'.Kt - 1 . "-! W III' 'el V M 1 r 'If. .S4 '.' II I r -;rw'wpi jililpA ill- fv::-- ;vyvj ";,H . -?r:: - lvv'-: 1 yv- v., v - v " - I ' ( , f 4 !v - . I . j Young Men Find Popu-r larity Waiting When They Master the Inbicate Step . rriERRIBLE tangles and wiggling wig' gles of limber legs and flipping flops f flighty feet in the amazing tontor. tions of a dizzy dance of unparalleled strcn uosity. No, constant reader, this is not a bark er's announcement of a side-show exhibition of a brunette belle from Honolulu in a new Version of the can-can, but m unexaggerated and faithful characterization of the dance that is now engaging the attention of young society. , For society and this means all within the magic circle in this democratic land has gone crazy over the buck and wing dance. At least, the. young men have. The same old dance that thrilled the nerves of "ole marsh niggers" after cotton women danc on the vaudeville stars. No I Not Nevertheless, Clarence and Chauncey come home ecstatic. Their new Oance is great, says Clarence. . 1 a "uiiy, va seel saouis vuauncey. xuvivm m u (-U iu piCKin . tn me ooum fifty years agu nas swept It make8 tneir bi00d thrlll and flUghe tfieir cheeks. into favor among the elite with a biff-bing- why. ira almost as good as -hop-scotch." . ' , , n t r i i j Mamma views It with delight. Undoubtedly a' new bang Suddenness. SO the fashionable dancing danoe. Entirely lacking In the inertia of the mere masters of New York, Philadelphia and r dances. And yet what movements! What vim , ', . tit j and sest and grace! .The dancing master must be other big cities are teaching the buck ana oongratuiated. win? S-s-sh! think ff mamma knew this was one of the ' . . i . , ,. versions of the buck and wing which are so favored In their offices tn Wall street young by society! brokers are pouncing the hardwood floors werUnt with a dexterity of legs and SWing of arms aon. You can dance it faat or slow. It can be danced Ut 1,m ttair ttrrt trrit thfir t0 the tune of Yankee Doodle.' Change the tune to a that would make old stage stars grit tneir Dutch aJp Md ym wouM neyer realUe R wm th- teeth with jealousy And at SOCUll functions, dance which once so delighted the darkles. Or do . , , ,L-J, ,L-:f., UnfJ, l,m 1 o the 'Wearing of the Greenland It'll thrill avery particularly those for charity, both the men one wUh mih bod Jn tneif velng and, WOmen, bleSS yOU, jiggle the Jig and "Why do the young men. take to it? Because, for ' rr - '.i j ; l -....IJ ,l one thing, It Is better exercise than gymnastics and . swing of with a pedal pork that would make th6 norlsonU, b.n It call- Int0 pUy everr muscle of tour ecstatic darks dancer nearly die laugh- the body. And there is joy in it. oh. that's tt ingl In Philadelphia Tony Drexel, a young scion of the old Drexel family, has amazed Vanity Fair by the arc-light twinkles of his feet in the buck and wing. Ijt New York Frank Gduld took up the dance for the delec tation of the elect. Throughout the country young men have followed suit. Children take to it like ducks to water, and girls even pre fer it to pineapple sundaes in summer. Those move easiest who have learned to dance. Pop THE buck and wing the favorite dance of so ciety? you Inquire. It Is the crasa of society. "Impossible I- you exclaim. Whereat we remind you that there is biblical authority that nothing la impossible, and that If you have any doubts, all you will have to do will be to go to one'of the basaars, klrmesses, open-air parties or entertainments which society so delights in giving for the benefit of heathens in foreign lands or to buy towels for the por Jn a MacFadde'n's court But what of the other dancesT The waits remains, of course. They couldn't very well do the buck and wing on a large scale in the ballroom. But alas for the misty msses of the quad rille, the lancera and other fairy-like movements vof the feet! Tear by year they are going out of popu larity, and year by year the desire for more vigorous dancing has become apparent. "But do you man td saiT young women join the men In this dance?" you persist. "The graceful rose buds of girlhood whom a wintry breadth might blast they, do they danoe this vigorous, breathless dancer Io you mean to declare they can do the Ktoorgia Grapevine' or "Cincinnati em r ; Too bet! r M . That is what a dancing master, when asked the ether day, replied. "Tou bet they dot And It's going te be a tussle between them who U do ft the best, the men or the women." - But like anything that becomes the fad of society, the buck and wing has been Improved. It has been modified. Twisted out of shape. Gilded so you wouldn't know the metal. Worked Into mere Jntrl ' rate, wonderful and complex varletlea than a cake f putty. 8tUL It s the buck and wing. Kany demure, severely-proper and deeoreoa mam mas who send their dear little Clarences aad Cheunreys to the dancing master would be shocked ff they thought the master would teacA the dear little an gets so vulgar, so enmeeUonabU thlag as the buck and wing. - - " ,, Gradou! the very name srors of lew haua, rock lag with tohacoo smoke. Why. It's the thing those secret. Nobody can dance the buck and wing and not enjoy it. There's bully fun In it. It causes the blood to 'circulate. Tou must be nimble, alert. And It .gives you marvelous control of the legs and feet "Why shouldn't society take it up? You can dance the buck and wing to almost any tune in two-four time, It permits an infinite variety of movements. You can do the hopping dance, posing In the air, and go through fancy movements. Or you can dance the plain buck and wing, beating the floor with vigor ous steps. You can rip-roar through it If you want to. Or it can be danced delicately and gracefully by children. DANCED FROM SIX TO SIXTY "The buck and wing can be danced from six to sjxty." When Frank Gould took up the study of the dance a month or so ago he was following the example of scores of young men who had learned Its mysteries. "It's corking!" declared Mr. Gould. And it was ob served by his friends that after he was served with papers in a divorce case he seemed to find his chief source of diversion in an Eighth avenue dancing school. It didn't take Mr. Gould long to master the dance, and he went reeling through the "Palmer House Glide" and "Newport Twist" as well as any planta tion denizen ever did. One dancing master declares he teaches the buck and wing to 100 persona to every one learning a fancy dance. So popular has it become. The dance sprang into popularity about three years ago, when Walter G. Wroe taught the dance to a number of young society women of Philadelphia who were to give a big charitable function in the Belle-vue-Stratford Hotel. Well, imagine the sensation when the charming young women of Philadelphia's most exclusive and conservative society danced the buck and wing, htt It up to beat the band, and sent the bachelors away wild with enthusiasm. Of course, after that iU want ed to learn the buck and wing, and soon Mrs. Percy Madeira, Mrs. James Francis Sullivan, Miss Katiiryn Voorhees, Miss Sylvia Passett, Miss Fannie Wain, M. Edwin Fitler, 8d. and Mrs. Horace Jayne delighted and M' ODEST kaiser! Oh, delectable Wilhelml Author, artist, preacher, teacher, sol- 'dier. railor. costjmsr. composer, musi cian, actor what other role remained for him, think rout Wisest among monarch and most competent, the genial kaiser of the Fatherland has won the attention of the world in more protean roles than possibly anv -other monarch. Spectacular, indeed, has been his career. Bat who, verily, imagined there was another character for him to assume I But here you are! He proclaims himself "King of Heart." And who are his four knaves ? Verily, the old statesmen who were thorns in his young sides. f TETXBJB is no doubt that Xalaor WlTholm. Uka an groat snoa, la eeeeatrto. But be la aioo Urtnloua, Ho has wbar naasy bad act be saving grace af ' originality. - Bo whea be aWla-ned a deck of cards for himself. should not have ba deemed eurprtelag that he ahould do ormethtn; stngnlsrly ona-U-al . This royal dock of cards to probably erne f tbe twoet remarkable la axis Usee. lor It gtree a key te a groat . ' . ruler's estimation of son-is famous European diplomats and sovereigns. And incidentally enables him to assume and proclaim his now role. Tor the characters of the cards are represented by reyal persons and diplomats, and the kaiser is the King ot Hearts. This peck was fashioned some years ago. and has boon used by toe kaiser for many a jolly game, after tbe affairs of state have been disposed of. Only recently, however, wore they copied and given to the prying public When tbe emperor visited Corfu, some time ago, an enterprising; band of speculative men proposed to build a casino there. It would rival that of Monte Carlo, they declared. And. they announced, they would use cards whieh were exact duplicates of those used by his maj esty. Kaiser Wllbolm IL Somehow they had obtained replicas of the cards. And they would see them with the kaiser as the Kino of Hearts. These cards are a revelation. Many persons familiar 1h things back of the scenes In Europe knew the kaiser's regard of Bismarck was not f the highest. That the kaiser was not wholly mistaken in hts pork-y hss since boon shown. At the time, however, tbe sympathy of the world was with Bismarck. But since the great diplomat's death, did the kaiser's ostl naatioa of lro ebanseT la thtsack of cards B1msrcfc ts on of tbe knaves. The others ere-oiadstosM. Crtspi aad Waldeek-Rousaeaa. Canny kalserl CrispL of cowoe. was a thorn la thee aide of tbe kaiser. .The great ItaJiaa premier, who believed that - - ' he could establish an African empire, irked the German monarch. "I am the German war lord.'!' WUhelm said. Across the Alps csuna ringing Crispin unuttered, but feit, sentiment: "1 am the great mind of Europe!'' Anil rWrsloa naskea him. Tbe great British premier often caused tha Imperious kaiser sleepless nights. WalJeck-Kousscau, the Krench ex-premier, also caused tbo kaiser anxiety. He admired a-nd. it Is said. feard him. Once WUhelm declared to the ex-premier's wife:, "If Waldeck-Rousaeau had the opportunity afforded by the premiership in monarchical countries, ho would out shine Richelieu, Bismarck or Gladstone' beoyold of Belgium, reaping riches from the Congo, wss selected by tbe kaiser as King of Diamonds. How nttln! King Humbert of Italy figures ss Kin of Clubs, though the signiAcance la not quite clear, while the Pope Is the Kin of Spades. . Tbe Queen of Hearts his grandmother, whoa bo loyally admired: Queen Victoria, wno was Indeed queen oT the hearts ot hex people And as Queen of Dtejnonds there Is MargherU of Italy, one of the most beautiful of Knropean quoena. The empress of Austria la Queen ot Clubs, and the csarlna of Russia, Queen of Spades. . m And bJmeelf most snodest msn King of Hearts. Tbo kaiser, however, felt thst the German people dearly lovo him. as they do. and doubtless It was the same lack of twlf-conoeiouoneos which leads him to stsnd tor photo arraphs more than any other ruler, that let bias put his own picture on the cards. - , Four -fsjnous European actresses are ea tha ace card a Kalsr WUhelm Is sutd to he hirhlv pleased with his tarda, He enters few things more thaa a iet gaaso. amazed society by their . marvelous dances. ; Master It? Indeed., you should harVe seen them! Talking of grace their ' dances were ' enchanting! They simply took the buck and wing and put it through a species of alchemy of movement . . Naturally, they heard of it In New York, and It was not long before the maidens of Father Knickerbock er's town were gingerly trying It. And the men? In Philadelphia Horace Jayne, Anthony Drexel, 3d, Jack Conaway and other young men followed suit And they followed suit la New York. And while the women confined themselves te the gentler phases, the men took the buck and wing up with a whoop and hello. There were intricacies In the buck and wing dance? There were dangerous twists of legs? There were startling contortions of the arms and feet? Ha-ha, it was just what they wanted! Something difficult to learn! Something full of life! A dance to give them riimbleness on the feet, dexterity of limb I "You're learning it," twittered one of Frank Gould'a friends, "to elude yie aubpena servers." ;v 'ri "There is no doubt that It is one of the finest forms of exercise," recently declared Mr. W roe. "Athletes say it Is one of the best things for training. Z have taught Jack O'Brien to dance it Alvla Kraens leln, the champion hurdler of tha world, learned It from me. And he declared It to be great. "It certainly has found favor among men In society, and it Is because they found they were being buncoed on many other dances. The dance kseps them la health, for one thing. It stirs up the circulation. And many will dance when they will not take exer cise. There's fun in it. "Now, many society folk often like to do a "stunt at a function. What is pleasanter than a dance? Many cannot recite; they lack the proper voice- But they can do that poem in motion tho buck and wing. It is harder to learn than most dances. But when you know it you have something. A LIFETIME STUDY "How long can one study the buck and wing?-. A lifetime. You could study and, study and continue t study. Almost any one, however, can leara a pretty dance within a month. .After ten or twelve lessons a bright pupil ought to bo abla to dance before an assemblage Many young people get tired learning other dances. But every pupil who takes one or two lessons of the buck acd wing becomes enthusiastic." ' And so the young men of society are educating their feetf Beginning with the simple back a.nd Wing dance? they are pursuing the study through, twists ef leg and dexterity of movements almost beyond imagina tion. Formerly we used to pay one-fifty per to see it done before tho calcium, i here bespangled LadJes ex say ed It. There chooolato-oolorad Thoopians. tmmacj late in whit collar, silk bat aad csutes, earned it through with a hails halloo. But now wo oaa ooo it la society. It has not. s- 1 never will, supplant tho waits M balls. But at priv. . functloaa, where entertainment la not confined to t . strictly for sua!, you will And you as moo and . , going through the Jigs aad hops of tho dance, . men In the elect circles of society, of course, k that the most export dancer mutt win tne a 1 -i. , tioa of the gestlo ladles, - This, then. Is probor . t reason they try to mumte oao another m q,,,. . -and complexity ef naovoasoat. la too torrir.lo ti. of lege thst snake oao bold ones We a' 4 fr ; theVll twist taoxtiirmbly Into a knot. It Is rethlose. oxeitlag. thrllUac. And fair. Jeweled hands flash as they ciep n s; , . , well. What young man would not ta'ni.I.f And they have tumbled into the !... Newport. Narraganeett , Pier, Auint'o , have stuJIed It College boys wi, bu t:.r , Jere, doubtless, this fa. I. If a yeans r i t.-. . efnee near yee do ot bo iorrml a thumplaa thumping of feet during tne r. So, as Byron enco wrote: 0 vtlh e 4 meet lT Ve .' - yie s ee tilt wm e-.- . -,- - Te etae the glowing heere v.; a ;.,. I,-.
