Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

i you u»« ’11 “Apply in walking the same principles of grace * and beauty, of freedom • and power, No. 5-HOW TO ACQUIRE A GRACEFUL AND HEALTHY WALK Koui DancinpDcuelops a Fifth of an Instructive Series of Articles by the Well--Kjioum Dancer, Ruth St. Denis T HIS newspaper presents to-day the fifth of a series of articles by the most graceful woman in America. Miss Ruth St. Denis is the foremost dancer in the United States. Her fame, not limited to her own country, is world wide. Miss St. Denis has literally danced before kings, having been received and admired in the courts of Europet She is a mistress of the art of expression without words, pantomine. and is deeply learned in the grace and beauty lore of the Qrient. She advises her countrywomen up on a subject in which every woman is interested, how to improve her figure, and tells them in clear, forceful manner and careful detail how this can be done. She does not hesitate to point to the faults in the figures and carriage of her countrywomen, but while she tells of the evil she also describes the remedy. D ANCING should cause the dancer to walk with east and gcace. That it does not al ways do so is the fault of the dancer. I There are singers whose voices, enchanting when they sing, are sin gularly unpleasant while they talk. That is the fault of the speaker. Dancers would walk well and singers would talk well if they applied to the commoner art. the principles they use in the practice of the more un common one. To make this quite clear let me remind you that in dancing we apply the principles or ijieas of power, of freedom, of grace, of beauty. But we rfegard walking as a utilitarian thing. When we think of it at all ,we think of it as a weed in the gar den of movement. We are careful about our downsitting and uprising, ,about the pictures we make as we stand or recline. We tWnk of the value of every movement and posture in dancing, but walking is neglected, forgotten, ignored. Yet we walk oftener and longer than we dance, therefore it is well that we give more thought to it. Daymen may be excused for giving little thought to it while professional dancers set them the example. 1 have myself seen professional dancers make exqtfisite pictures in movement to the last figure, which they w ould finish in the centre of the stage and, dropping every semblance of grace or beauty, of freedom or power of action, shuffle off into the wings as heavily as the property man who shifts the scenes. This is a sin against the artistic sense. It is a crime against beauty. It is inexcusa ble in a dancer. For the bad walking to which our eyes have painfully accustomed them- selves ballroom dancing is in part to blame. Ballroom dancing is ridi culous. It means nothing. If you do not grasp this truth at first, place your hands over your ears the next time you go to a ballroom and watch the figures jumping or slipping about. You are hopelessly without humor if the? spectacle does not make you laugh. The experiment shows, that the dance was dependent upon the mu sic. Shut out the music, and without strain of the imagination you could fancy yourself in an asylum fc the insane. I plan all my dances with out music. I could easily dispense with the music. It is superfluous and a mere) concession I occasionally make to a rather general present liking. I look upon it as a crutch that I am anxious to caBt away. Genuine dancing is drama. Every action means something, and what it means is patent to everyone. Even the turkey trot and the tango, con demned as they are by many and lacking in good taste as they cer tainly are, are at least not aimless. Shutting out the music, one can still understand perfectly what the dances mean. They are sex dances and rep resent courtship, pursuit. They are grotesque, but meaningful. Having made apology and explana tion for the bad walking of the day, the slouching, careless, broken gait, I will tell you how a reform may be accomplished in all cases. Walking, like every other manifestation of life, has a motive. Reveal the motive by your walk. For instance, we will &ay that it is a lovely June day and you* want to go out of doors and satu rate vourself with sunshine. Your motive is to enjoy. With this thought in mind the body naturally reflects it. You walk slowly to efijoy the sights by the way. As you saunter your head is held up, your shoulders back. You are thinking, “I am free to enjoy this beautiful day. 1 ou walk freely and easily, with little power, but with the beauty of un obstructed motion. But suppose you have a problem tq solve and you are sure you can best solve it while walking. Motion does in many cases aid thought. Men instinctively pace the floor when in deep thought. The head is bent for the head bows itself in thought, the shoulders are bent forward and the walk is rapid. One warning. Keep the thought of freedom of motion in the foreground of your mnd. If while you walk you feel restricted by narrow skirts, or tight shoes, or binding garters, or stays, your limbs will not move Steadily forward, but will divide their motion with an up and down one. 7?gtch a woman walking in a tight hobble skirt and the sight is gro tesque, Her knees move up and down as though she were a wooden By RUTH ST. DENIS (The Most Famous American Dancer) jack-in-the-box. If the skirt be slit and pleats set in. or a petticoat of the same color fill the gaps, her walk is far more graceful and much nearer to normal. The natural walk is loose and long stepped, a kind of lope, the movement being a swing from the thigh, the knees being inactive and. for the purpose of that walk, useless. You might as well leave your knees at home save for their service if you drop /your handkerchief and there is no gallant about to pick it up, or unless you saw some beautiful child and wished to cultivale its acquaint ance. dancing.’ i do not agree with the generally accepted definition that walking is a continuous falling and recovering of oneself from falling. Its mechanism is that of a partial fall, but if the rest of the definition about the re covering were true we would walk with our faces upturned and our shoulders back, Which is the atti tude of recovering from a fall, where as the natural and easy walk is a slight bending forward, as though yielding in a degree to the law of gravity. How does dancing apply to all this and all this to dancing? Both “It is the lack of balance and poise that makes the walk awk- w a r d. Secure them by special practice. ' If a dancer s walk is awkward it is because she forgets to practice the poise and balance of the dance.” , f... conform to the same standards, or should do so. We dance as we think, and as we think, we Walk. Think of freedom, grace, power, beauty, and your walk will reflect them. As in every other movement, walk ing should provide us something to do, else it will be aimless and point less and of foolish appearance* The person who is walking with no par ticular purpose is self-conscious, and to be self-conscious is to be timid, and to be timid is to be awkward. There is a lesson in the awkward child. Shy and selfconseious, she squeezes herself into the smallest space possible and gets as far away from everyone as she can. That is because she has nothing to do. I say to her. “Stfsio. will you bring the sandwiches?" and she is a dif ferent child. She conies out of her corner, smiles and walks out of the room with perfect poise. She has something to do. Know what you are walking for Say, “I am going to walk for exer cise," or "I shall take a walk to aid me in thought," and you will take the right posture. Thought governs sWaij Irwin’s Jauorite Recipes No. 3 of a Brand New Cooking Series by Amer ica’s Most Popular Comedienne, and Best Cook everything. Make your walk mean ingful and all the other attributes will take care of themselves. One-reason why dancing should lead to a graceful walk is that danc ing does not permit one to be encum bered by clothes. Take this hint from the dancer. The fewer clothes consistent with modesty the better. Fancy anyone dancing well with a hat on! And as for hatpins, I never wear them. 1 will not wear a hat that requires them. That is one reason why women walk badly and it ts a condition that no one can control, if she permits it to exist. Woman is clumsy be cause she is overweighted with clothes, or if she does not wear too many clothes they are so arranged that they restrict her movements. In dressing for walk, approximate' thq freedom of motion you would have! if you wore no clothes at all. Lett the skirts be full enough or open enough—the sldepleats now in use are a godsend of fashion, so that you may swing the leg easily from the thigh and your steps be at least as long as the length of your foot. By MAY IRWIN, The Best Cook on the American Stage T HE, worst sin of breakfast is its monotony. A cereal, ba con and eggs, chops, some indigestible and temper-provoking hot bread, and coffee, tie same thing day after day throughout the year, and it has becone the most despised of meals. Some have de spised it so that they dq without it. Others think the breakfast of continental Europe, a roll and coffee, with perhaps some jelly or marma lade. enough. I do not. For the idlers, it may suffice. Those who produce nothing are jus tified in not consuming much. - Persons who work, and thinking is the hardest work, need a nourishing first meal. One goblet of orange juice, one rasher of bacon, Dick's biscuits, coffee. This breakfast, as all the others, begins you see, with a goblet of orange juice. Nothing could induce me to drink the two or three glasses of cold water on rising that so many health culturists recommend. I re fuse to believe that a pint or more of cold water is a wholesome bath for the delicate lining of a long-fast ing stomach. And raw fruit is at that time difficult of digestion. The orange juice should be served pure. Remove the pulp and seeds with a spoon before serving. If you give orange juice a fair trial, as the vend- May Irwin, in Her Own Kitchen, Pre paring One of Her Famous Dinners. ers of patent medicines say, you will accept no substitute. It refreshes and soothes the stomach. I collected on my travels recipes of the best dishes I met. and this recipe for cooking bacon I got, as you may surmise, from its flowery phraseology, in Georgia. “To crisp bacon to such point of toothsome delicacy that it breaks In the mouth yet liberates no suspicion of grease, lay the slides on a hot spider and frequently turn them. Pour off the melted grease as it gathers. When the bacon is brown, lift it carefully upon, soft paper and set It in the oven to dry. 1,' so pre pared the bacon will be so free from grease that you may serve it attrac tively on a napkin, if you wish.” The reason there is so strong a prejudice against hot bread is that the bread isn't properly prepared. I have been eating Hot bread every morning since my feet swung from a high chair and no one ever accused me of any form of indigestion. But 1 am careful of my hot bread. Or 1 go still farther back and say I am careful of the cook who prepares the hot bread. When hot bread is indi gestible it is because It has not been rightly cooked. For Dick’s biscuits use one quart of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, one teaspoon of salt. Mix the salt and baking powder thorough- ly in the flour. Rub in equal parts of lard and butter, each about the size of an egg. Mix with cold, sweet milk as soft as can be handled. Roll out, not too thin, and bake in a quick oven. In coffee, as in friends, the old is best. I make coffee in the old-fash ioned way, even to running all over town to find one of the nearly extinct species of old-fashioned porcelain- lined coffee pots. For a family of, say eight, 1 use two teacups of fresh ly ground Mocha and Java coffee, mixed in equal parts, and two fresh eggs. I break the two eggs, crush ing the shell, yolks and eggs togeth er, and pour them over the coffee grounds, adding two tablespoonfuls of water, stirring them all together In a bowl. This is to prevent the mix ture settling into one hard lump, holding all the fine essence of the coffee together in its lumpy grasp. I let this stand while rinsing the pot with boiling water, then pour the water while boiling hot upon the cof fee, stirring while I pour with a long- handled porcelain spoon. The stir ring will prevent the mixture of egg nd coffee settling into a heavy ball, and permit the strong flavor of the coffee to escape into the water. I then place the coffee-pot on the back of the stove and allow it to simmer, not boil, for a half hour, stirring it vigorously three or four times while it is simmering One goblet orange juice. Creamed ham and poached eggs. Popovers. Coffee. For creamed ham and poached eggs make a smooth white sauce with two rounding tablespoons of butter and one of corn starch, with a cup of milk. Season with pepper only, and add a cup of finely chopped ham. Spread the mixture over two rounds of toast, with a poached egg oji ,-acb. For popovers use two eggs, one cup of flour, one cup of milk and half a teaspoon of salt. Sift together the flour and salt. Beat the eggs until creamy. Add the milk and flour and heat well. Strain. Bake for twenty- five minutes in popover cups in a hot oven. Serve on a hot plate, butter ing each bit as used. 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL We Hliip on HpprovaJ without a cent IBS after using the bicycle io days. DO NOT onehtany price until you receive our latest art (-utulors illustrating every kind of bicycle, and have Learned our unheard of prices and tnarveloun new offer*. ft IIP PFy T ,s aI * 1 1 "fU cost you to Wlf k UK.H | write a postal and every thing will be sent you free pout paid by- return mail. You will get Such valuable information. Do not wait, write it now. . , , TIRES, Coaster • Hr.ike rear wnwli, lamps sundries at half unuaLorices. . MEAD OYOLE OO. Dent. \V-<LCHICAG8 THE NATIONAL MARKET PLACE PATENTS AND INVENTIONS WANTED IDEAS--■•Men of idea* and inven tive ability should write for our list of needed inventions and prize* offered by leading manu facturers. Patents set tired or our fee returned. "Why Some Inventors Fail,” "How to Sell Your Patent,” "How to Get Your Patent and Your Money” and other valuable booklets sent free to any addn-*. RANDOLPH &• CO., 61S East N W.. Patent Attorney, Washington, I> O. IDEAS WANTED Manufacture * are wirting for patents procured through me. A hooks with list UOo inventions wanted sent free. Advice Free I get patent or no fee R B Owen, '&> Owen Bldg., Washington, lb O. PATE NTH worth voNl.Y. For books that Ml WHAT patents bring MOST MONEY, and WH'F, send Mt” cents postage to R. S. & A. B. Lacey FtU, Washington. D. <\ Established ISOft xured promptly Our books telling low to obtain and realize therefrom sent on request; write to-day; trade marks registered. Heeler A itobb, 202^00 Southern Bldg., Washington, I). C. HYPNOTISM. Fit DE illustrated Rook on Hypnotism and other occult sciences to all who send their ad dress. Write to-day and learn how to In fluence and control others. \f. D. BETTS, St a. W Jackson. Mich. VAUDEVILLE. GO ON THE STAGE—Vaudeville career offered you. Experience unnecessary. Instructive boon free. Write to-day. Frederic La Delle, Hta. K., Jackson, Mich. HIGH GRADE HELP. AN Intelligent person can earn $100 m nt il corresponding for newspapers; no canvassing; send for particular*. Pres. Syndicate. 740 Look port, N. yT TRICKS, JOKES, PUZZLES. MAGIC POCK ET TRlCK and Catalogue 1 • Or. MAGIC CO., Dept. 24ft W. *sth St . New York. MISCELLANEOUS. TORAOCt) HABIT How to overoomi i' quickly, easily, lastingly. Hook free. kdw. .1 Woods, •-»•”» Sixth . 101 New York City. EYE REMEDIES. TRY Murine K>t Remedy for Red, Weak" W.i- tery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids; no Smaifing— just Eye Comfort. .Murine Eye Salve in Tubes, 2f»c. Murine, Dtprid Form, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 Y-.ii '.-.mi Drmvist will supply you Ask him FOR WOMEN. SONGS. A PFJRF0OTLY TVF.VR1XVPBDBTJBT—"Oiow- dica” gives wonderful result*; no failures; otherwise money refunded; $1 iar. Call, write Mile. Koppel a Parisian Shirffo, 158 West 34th st.. New York. SHOW BUSINESS. STAGE Instruction Sample i*iges for stamp. Htage Studio, Station 3, 240 W. :p*h. N.Y. SOJW POKM8 WASTED We pay t ■ royal tar. .Successful song writers make thousand!*' <>t dollars yearly. You may be next. Kerfd us KMiijj tv.asms, melodies, songs at oruv. New York only* place to popularize »ongs. Our new clearly explained by free booklet. ft CO., lib'. Broad vs N V SONG WRITERS—I've paid thousands in roy^ altics. Send me your poems or melodies for m- eeptance or write for free booklet. Will pay yotr • per cent royalty. Eat. 10 yrs. John T. Hull.' 2 ( oliunbiia Circle. New York LEARN the truth about the song business fre*. Contest now on. Send name only’. Wittniaark Music Co.. Hamilton Grange, New York. - rs<; POEMS WANTED New" Pl.n, Mig money. Songs published if accepted. Fret? Rook. Hayworth Music Co., 0630, Wash., I). C. SONG POEMS Examined Free -Send yours, make money. Music Clearing House, 141 W. 4fttb N Y. ANTISEPTIC LINIMENT. VARICOSE VEINS, Rad Legs, etc., are promptly relieved with inexpensive home treat ment. It absolutely remove* the i>*in, swelling,’ tiredness and disease. Full particulars on re ceipt of stamps. W. F. Young, P. D. F., 207 TeinplesL, Springfield, Mass. ' BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. I MADE $50,000 in five years with a small mail >rder business; began with $5. Send for tree booklet. Tells bow. Heacvck, 707 Lock* port, N T.