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THE- OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. ' PORTLAND. SUNDAY MQRNnsi7:;Tccr33- 1913. Copyrlf bV Itis, tr tne Bttr Company. Ort Srluia iughts tmmd ILllK -. ' 1 The Ancient Greeks Had Cabarets, too, and Knew How to Bo the Turkey Trot -.j' - ... v i i it 111111. ' II ! : 'a i i u v . vy vy V7 7 - a n . " 1 " . ' , t I i A Movemeai from an Ancient Greek "Owl Dance," from a Painting at Pompeii "Note : fhe Man and Woman Storing in" Each : Other's Eye, as Modern Dancer Do, NOT excepting the Tango, the Turkey Trot the Grizzly jSear and the Bunny Hug, ' there la toothing new under the sua la the ' way of dancing. The. Greek 'ex ; hausted th subject three thousand . years ago. For proof of -which state- orient see reproductions of rare old decorative drawings on this page." The Joke Is on the Isadora Dun- ; cans and Lady Constance Richard- . sons. ' After all thelx1 studious ef forts, their demonstrations In publlo- . and the , Herculeaa feats ' of their press agents to "revive the dances of ancient Greece," they have left It to the unlettered masses to emu- . late the dancing Greeks la their freally merry moments. -. While aa exceedingly small per 'cent age of the populatloa Is follow ing the ceremoniously classlo exam- , ' pies. set by the ladles referred to, 'everybody's doln' It that is, the Tango, et cetera very much as they ?, were done by youthful Greeks thirty centuries ago In their . blithesome r moods, -' 1 : ,Not only did these festive Gr"slans copy the move ments of birds, fowls and beasts la their popular dan ces at merrymaking, but they C!atue in the British Museum cf an Ancient Greek 'Turkey Trolter" at a Moment of the DCOO-year-old "Crane Dance" pmced together in couples, a man tnd a woman, with even less regard for the feelings of the prudish of tielr day of : which r there were tone, by the: way-than Is exhibited y the , bunny-hnaglng couple at r.r Coney Island dance halL j Te t the Tango, the Turkey , Trot 1 13 eo forth have achieved vast I -pularlty without the slightest ex. t :-3 or claim for them that they f -ally Inherited part of the "glory ; 1 t vas Greece." Apparently their a tor being was Inherent la l. due to an origin la nature's : consciously rhythmlcalmovlngcrea res Just aseimllar dances of the .dent Greeks originated. ' , While;'!; primarily the , dance of Creece -was 'a form of worship and a irancn. 01 eaucauon, it aid not ' - : rcxala, stationary, and made Its V ''tit . ' ... . . ' f ' t f way from re ligion into everyday life, forming part of all merrymak ing. :. Dancing was reduced almost Assyrian Hired to a1 science . T ', - by the " Greeks, ' who classified ; their dahces somewhat as follows: Kublatlc, Including leaping and acro batic feats; 6'peristlc, rhythmical ' movements accompanying ball-throwing; orchestic, or dancing proper, aa "we onderstand It 'Cui fC A" kind of warlike dance" called gymaopaldla was performed . by two croups of children, or youths, "quite nude, singing hymns, and marching, skipping and whirling. Sometimes there were three choruses, as among the Lacedaemonians when verses ac companied the dance. -The od men eang: "We once were young and gay like you, - , '-. Valiant, bold and active, too. The young men respondeds Another Wall "Painting; Showing a "Cabaret" Feature of " Tie now our turn, and you shall see Tpu've nsty deserved it more than r " y-'' : ' .Then the boys chimed In: "The day shall come when we shall show. .,:;.;';;;. , , ' Feats that surpass all you can do." ,. The great war dance was the Pyr rhic, and by the laws of Sparta every , child over five had to learn It Heroic ; la Its character, and of course danced f : , fcy men alone, It afterward degea- ' "crated Into a mixed dance, each war- rlor having a female partner. Daeda lus is said to have Invented this . variation, teaching It to the seven youths and maidens saved from the Minotaur by Theseus. : ,- 1 , The Bormos was one of the great- ; est of Greek war dances, the xuea - taking all the fcerolo poses of war ; rlors, the maidens portraying tnod . esty, and grace in every movement -' In Sparta the girls danced with one knee bare, in honor of Diana, , Every ' one has observed how nearly that eVv feet la produced by the new costumes , silt on one side.' da the dramatlo danoes of ancient - , Greece are the germs of the Roman , and Greek pantomime and ouf mod- ; ' era ballet There were many dances ' ,too Illustrative of Joy and merriment," such as the Anthema, a flower dance : 1 chiefly sung by women la private,,. . assemblies, with the refrain; , , , '' a;' '"' -' ' . 'there's my lovely parsley, sayt , My violets, roses, where are theyT My parsley, roses, violets fair, . Where are my floweret Tell toe " ' i- where." , - They danoed, too. In Imitation of " Various animals, and copied the flap ping of birds' wings. , They bad the bear dance, Just as we have 'the Grizzly, it was la honor of Artemis danced '.-.by. girls wearlnj laffroapciKlson fheacthajota complex Dancers, from an Old . Greek Decoration. , - ' robes. They had an owl. dance, a - satirical dance, consisting la shading the eyes with, the hands or In turn-' , ..' Ing the head to and frd like aa owl . danced ' la couples : like .the .Turkey 1 But these classic dances took on a ; new, abandon and extreme se'nsuoua 'ness under the influence of the "Ionl' " ana,- who- Introduced - many rolup. tuous dances which they had brought from Syria.' The Phrygians and Ly- - dlans adopted ' all the new dances quickly and Athens' went mad over : them. ..The .' musicians ; played ..the - lute and cythara, and hed they ea ' tered a banquet hall, flowed by the band of young maidens, the entire company arose and regan to dance. It was considered the height of lm-: politeness for any guest to refuse to dance, and every one had to know; hownother Turkey Trot analogy, - ' The Symposium of the Gredks was undoubtedly the original of our ban- quets enlivened by the Introduction of entertainers, and the degeneration of the Symposia when the guests arose from the tables and Joined the dancers Is very much like the modern MY SECRETS AT I anf going to write tc-; jday will sound very much like talk from a doctor. But in my wide experience all. over Che . civilized : world I have learned many things, and no one knows bet-; ter thah X do that heafth and beauty -cannot be purchased In jars of, cold cream and bottles of lotions, .' ' The. reasons for a bad skin and a sallow complexion often He deeper than we think.' ' . When a human being Is out et or-". der the trouble Is In the Intestines more often than anywhere else.. This Is especially true, of women who are " so generally affected In this way that ; many think of it as an unavoidable ' hortcomlng, like being too short or ; too talL ' "' ' ' ' ' ', The remedy ,. for .this universal cause of sickness, headaches end bad ' bealth lies not la drugs, but In re moving the cause, ' which Is wrong - The business of the digestive o ' gang was, and, still Is, to pick out and absorb the nutritive particles and pass on the waste. Food does not proceed on Its course from our mouth by gravity, like a' "brick dropped down a welt Its course de- f.l".1 m" TTT1-" """" ... ...... I. ,,v Old Greek Festive Occasions. cabaret and "Trotteries," where the guests join the entertainers upon the floor and dance either among thenv selves or with the professionals. That the Greeks had steps like the Tango and Turkey Trot Is easy to see, for these are .the primitive, easy dances that anyone caa dance If he or she has the least sense of rhythm. The Greeks knew every possible step, but sought grace In the use of the OF BEAUTY--By .me. lJiia..Gralien9-': 'itt is iMagj. system of muscles, which force It ' down , the throat by 'the familiar process of swallowing!! ' ' ". " - In the stomach muscular force Is f necessary to drive the food through the pylorus or sentinel valve into the intestine,'- If It were not for a net work of muscles which move rhyth mically In the abdomen food would '1 stay In the Intestines until we die. .These Involuntary movements of the Intestines are called rtotaltle'acv. It Is in the intestines that the alue of fibrous matter, chaff, .'bran, eta, becomes' apparent the nutritive and the liquid parts of the food are . rapidly absorbed into the blood, leav ing only the non-dlgestlble parts. ; , If the food Is highly concentrated the remainder Is ao email that the peristaltic movements of the bowels have little or no grip on It The food instead of moving along at Its proper pace, halts and boomes dryer and harder. " Besides being toe small In bulk to fit the calibre of the intestines, con centrated food lacks the stimulating power on the Intestines which cbaSC and flbra have bran, for Instance, In the intestines tickles and excite s The 3,000-Years-Ago Tango' from a Pompeian Wall Paint , inj, Danced by a Man en a Woman, as To-day. 1 . " , - : arma and hands as much or more than by the movements of the legs and swaying of theiody. If was1 In the later development or rather de generacy of manners and morals, that the dancing was made more volup tuous, and the ancient forms of the Tango and .Turkey Trot wera Intro duced from the Ionian Islands, they ; - having learned these dances from the mainland to , the East ' .' i To the Greek the dance, stood for ' an Idea, and be tried to make plain any Idea at all. whether elevating or degrading, by the movements of the, dance. His . war dances were more like marches, with posturing and all' . of the action, vjf Attacking, feinting ; and fleeing, and soma of these were ; - evea ? adapted ; to the use of war horses, so we would hardly call them dances at alt '":::: .i-::.',,-:-'-;; . " The nearest to the Turkey , Trot that the ancient Greeks came was probably in the Geranoa or Crane Dance. This represents the lntrlca- ' cles of the Cretan ; Labyrinth from ' which Theseua was rescued by Ari adne. This dance is pictured on an ' ancient vase ehowlng the hero hold- Your Beauty Depends Largely on the lining of the bowels, and the re-, ; suit 'Is proper; activity of . their muaclea , " - y Though nobody recommends tabloid ; "meals any longer,. food faddists still , prescribe starvation diets en the mis taken idea that Kature Is economical la. her, digestive processes.-;, $ v Nature doesn't work that way. Our digestive tract demands a' large sup-' ; ply of mixed food. No matter how . much or bow. little we eat It win not,; digest It all. , To use a mining term, " , our processes can only handle "low grade ore." 'ySonoentrates" clog the machinery. ( v vt When the muscular action of the intestines is not enough to movethe . resldiiei along'' at Its proper rate, the bowels have an emergency meth od. They move things by, floating them along ' in an emergency fluid secreted by the walla of the intes tines.' ""- ' All the salts and other purgatives which All the shelves of the drug stores act in this way thpy are- rol sonoua, and by their irritation of tho mucus llixlns: they cause this watery secretion. Combat with might end main any irregularity, in habit If the lt?nuj xng the famous clue, or thread, .fol lowing, Ariadne, and the maidens danced la serpentine fashion after -him. . ' VThls dance was Introduced In the festival of Apollo at JDelos, and those who distinguished' themselves re-; celved- valuable tripods-which, they dedicated to the gods, the names of, ,the victors being proclaimed by two rheraldsi This great Dellan festival was Jield every : five ' years In the Spring. 'Artemis was first worshipped and thea Apollo. .The; maidens' of Delos, - crowned .with lowers ' and garbed la festal attire, dantfed to joyful choruses round the altars of the two deities, and ; set forth In "acred ballets the story of the birth; f Apollo and Artemis. , Nobody In ancient Greece war too filghly honored b? the naUon or per- Q & BQng of poemT EverT eonally too dignified to. dance. Not cceatuitIon of TerBe was accompa erea Socrates though .; he had la- nled J Btep m the orchesUo repre Zantippe a Jealous virago for a wife. , eeatatIons' gtep and gesture were Am X to be blamed for reducing : An Ancient Greek Vase hk the British ; Irluseum, with a Decorative Design Showing That There Were Acrobatic Dancers Then as Now. ' . . ' the corpulence of my body by a lit--tie danclngr was' the famous utter-; lance of the greatest of Greek phlloso phers, who at the age of sixty had been taught the art of .dancing by the famous scholar, ' courtesan and j-wlVAspasIa,7. So we know that the Greeks were great dancers In their time, and even -Homer describes certain dances In tme during the Trojan War,' 1,000. ' years B. C. The Fhalaklan dance, .which Homer . praises highly, was performed by youths dancing In a circle around a singer. But this was ' more of the heroic than the sensuous. What You Eat organs are lazy and do not act regu larly, this Mrregularlty may become fixed with dire effects upon beauty and character. V . Yon will attain good results always by taking early each morning, while f asting, one or two teaspoonf uls' of olive oil. , This is one of the best ures for lethargy of the intestines. - -v t : . . . I f , - A . '. - f' : ... i- !' . . f i. : . . . ? , I . . '. .'. --, ' v t ; : I ( " Cold Infusions of, wild pansy, hops,;. Enb m u M ash leaves or peppermint and ma-. . . ; ' ; I cerrfion of leaves of senna yield a"-aJBttl results. -The -Swedish.; - movements, V? eh circling. As the fingers .past massage and .infusions of cold water . downward increase the pressure, but rBn- -ik m rcomfiKr the decrease it as you come back to th trouble. ; i'y .-v ( Here are some special exercises which lean heartily recommend: ; - ' 1. Place -yourself on your back, lift . the legs slowly until they are perpen dicular to the body, Jower, them slightly. Itepeat ten times. : j ; ; 2. Standing erect both hntldan the hips, try to force the stomach', forward as far as possible by "breath ins deeply, and using the abdominal tnu' cles. Erlng it back quickly. tlnssnge of tho stomach is not par, to do yourself, but can be dona ai follows: riace yourself on your bat ':, your knefcs bent upward, foot l.:t the floor, eo as o support the Li and it, was la the sensuous dances that the Greeks revelled. They bad a repugnance to self-denial, and wera -not afraid of losing personal dlgnltJl by the liveliness of their dancing. , ' . The feelings for' the : rhythmics , the recurrence of regular, propor tional and measured beats, was high ly cultivated and enjoyed by the Greeks. The order and - proportion , observed In movement Is rhythm i la ' relation to sound . it is called bar monyr and In Greece the connection of rhythm with harmony 4 expressed ' by the word rchesls.7 4for which we have no English, equivalent. .as It means both the dance and the muslo the "married pair," as Luclan calls 'them. V; 'A:r': " 'v-' -' .'-'i'v-'" t;"".'::;' . - This union was first made by the volce-for what could be more nat ural than to add rhythmical move tnierwovea wiia, poeir, uu w uu in rhythm to the verse was the same - thing as to read '; It out la .true . measure.-.'". ,; - : ;.""' ' : Gestures of arms and hands Were at first - considered more . Important . thn tb movement of the . feet Dancers In -Greece were, called Chelrosophl," sk.nied with the hands, and number and cadence throbbed Ig ' very one of their exercises. ' ' The Athenians were especially fond of dancing, and they. were ' not onH eloquent In speech, but also in gest ures, "mostly of the bands and arms. The poets taught chelronomla, the t art of gesture, as (art of the stud of the classlo dance. i waa said of . ' Telestes. a dancer. In the theatre ol 'Aeschylus, that he was so skilled In the Chelronomla that he represented In the dance the "Seven Before The bes." Sostratus Is said to have re fused to give the dapce "Liberty" be- . fore the conquerors : of . his native town Decauseit was no longer tree; Dancing was Inextricably inter woven with the religion of the Greeks . and no festival or entertainment was . complete without the , appropriate dancing. , In the early ages it was', kept up to a high standard, and Ho . mer - calls sleep, lore, muslo ' and dancing the sweetest and the most perfect of all human enjoyments, but he dignifies, the last . only by the epithet "blameless.". ' ; ; -1 : In his time this was . doubtless ' true, but as the times changed the dances became a reflection of .the degenerate morals, and they, too, be came degenerate. Athenaeus says that danclnsr was . broueht to such perfection in Imitating the passions that the most eminent sculptors often took their models and designs from the attitudes of the public dancers, and thus produced that great beauty and grace of form and figure which have never been surpassed la the lous figures and postures have come to be the models and studies of the ' dancers of all succeeding ages. . t Probably It Is because the old Greek sculptors were so ' herolo in their Ideals tthat the popular dances of,, that day the Grecian . Tango .and Turkey Trot figure la so lew of; their works. t llcasten the right hand wttH vaseline, oil or cflld cream, and with the points of the 'three longer flngerf describe circles about the .centre ol ie stomach. --Do this very slowly." . ' Z Rub from left to right;' passing over the stomach,' In this way f oHow Ing the course of the colon. To dl ivi a a a m . . m . . m. a . una weu, piace sogers i me rigni hsiid on the taft' irtdA. and thn lofl ' TianJI An 4-ria Irnnnb-lAa 4 t)ia H vi4 centre. ': ;.;:, ;,; ;',.....'-'' a ' 8. Place the right hand Hat on th'i; stomach, the left on top of It , Hall vigorously- npward." Go downward with -little pressure, and then to th right v;; .;:.' 4. Complete the massape by knead log the stomach with both hands,'tak ing hold of the 6kin and flesh rather deeply.. .;'' ..'.','''.. ''"' ." ;; s,. Drink no red wines, but acid et Bupirod drinks or eparkllng wlnesu Use milk, sour milk, lemonade with carbonic water. Eat fatty meats and flub. Farinaceous, foods and green vegetables, giving preference to car rota, green peas, asparagus and green beans.' All fruits, especially figa, ra.; 3 anl prune?, aro excellent ; -4 (,-,.