HIE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, - PORTLAND, SUNDAY EORNING, SEPTEMBER' 6. 1905
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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
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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
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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,-.