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“The Hindoo calm;is ineffable. Of things that trouble he
thinks ‘it does not matter. It is but for to-day.’
Hu thinks not in hours, but lives.”
T HIS newspaper presents to-day the sixth 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 re
ceived and admired in the courts of Europe. She is a mistress of
the art of expression without words, pantomine, and is deeply
learned in the grace and beauty law of the Orient. She advises her
country women upon 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 figure and carriage of her country women,
but while she tells of the evil she also describes the remedy.
No. 6—What Oriental Dancing Has
Taught Me
• By Ruth
I T is a painful operation to uproot
a popular idea, painful to the per
son whose idea is uprooted and
painful for the uprooter, yet the
operation is often a duty, and as
such. I approach my task of making
several true statements about the
Japanese.
Fallacy First—That their clothes-
are loose and comfortable. They
are no such t^ing. The kimoifo is
an easeful garment, yes. But in
Japan and among the Japanese in
this country a kimono without an
obi is like a wife without a husband,
a day without a sun, or to go back to
the Persian philosopher of pleasure,
Omar Khayam, the night without its
“thousand eyes,” the stars. The obi
in its natural, unAmericanized state.
St. Denis
is five yards long and heavilj
padded. Moreover, it is worn very
tightly bound about the waist. 1
dislike and extremely disapprove the
corset, but I must admit the obi is
its equal in obstructing free motion
hence is destructive of grace.
Fallacy Second—That the move
ments of the Japanese women are
graceful. What that statement
proves is that if you hear anything
often enough you will believe it in
spite of the testimony of your eyes
to the contrary. If you have seen
“The Mikado” and “The Geisha,” or
if you have stopped for a cup of tea
at one of the Japanese restaurants
in New York or San Francisco you
must have seen that the walk of
the Japanese woman is not a walk,
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“The message from the Orient is absolute self-control. She keeps her powers locked
in to be used only in emergency.” *
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but a hobble. She is even more un
graceful than the American woman
is when wearing her unslashed
hobble skirt because, while Amer
ican clothes cause a girl to ridicu
lously shorten her steps, they permit
her to walk upright, while the
weight and cramping bondage of the
obi cause her to bend forward. A
Japanese woman’s walk embraces
the unlovely stoop of extreme age.
Fallacy Third—That the Japanese
. know so well the art of utter relaxa
tion that they are the most serene
of peoples on the earth. They are
serene, yes; but not from relaxation.
Their sereneness is the triumph of
concentration. The tendency of dif
fuseness of thought is toward relaxa
tion. The trend of concentration is
toward contraction. Japanese muscles
are practically alwaysicontracted. The
Japanese contract their energies
and concentrate their minds on one
purpose. This individual habit is
the cause of their national victories.
Do not believe, then, that the
-brown skinned woman, smiling at
you from behind the barricade of her
fan, is as limp as a kitten and as
good humored as that kitten when
it is comfortable and has been well
fed. She is fascinating you because
she has contracted her muscles and
is directing her energies to the task
of that fascination. The message
of the Japanese to us is not, as we
have thought for generations, relaxa
tion, nyt resistance. On the con
trary, the message of the little na
tion, communicated by its alluring
women as well as its silent, doughty
men, is that of conversation of
energy. “Contract and hold in
your energy. Let no atom of your
vital force escape except in the
emergencies of life," is what we are
taught, albeit indirectly and perhaps
unwillingly, by the folk of the
Island Kingdom. The nervous,
energy scattering women,of America
should reflect on and practice the
advice.
It is the Fast Indians who teach
us relaxation and infinite patience.
The Indian can wait, and wait, and
wait for what he wants. The East
Indian thinks not in hours or days
or weeks as our impatient people do,
but in lives. He has inherited the
traditions of centuries and he has
vision of tiie laws of life working in
exorably and changelessly. and he
has the greatest serenity, which is
strength. His serenity says of an
event, however revolutionary it ap
pears to be in his life or in ours,
“That will pass. It is but for to
day.” So is his patience boundless
and strengthmaking.
The Indian dances are object les
sons in this strength making pa
tience. They teach us the power of
relaxation. The dancers imitate the
posture of Buddhas, sitting with legs
crossed, muscles loosened, faces con
templative, attitude the apotheosis
of peace. Though an Indian dance
begins with the subtleties and haz
ards of sex it is liable to culminate
in the posture of power through
repose.
The beauty of calm thaf
cannot be broken and
of absolute self-con
trol is the Oriental
ideal.”
Study, on the other hand,
the posture of a geisha smil
ing at a visitor. Her shoulders
are drawn back, perhaps, her
face up turned, in the simil-
tude of trust, her fan fluttering
its perfumed coquetries, but
her muscles are taut as the
rope that holds a straining
ocean liner at anchor.
A message, an artistic one
from the Orient, every part of
it, is that the dances we have
borrowed from that old land
whose background is of dim
uncounted centuries, is that
every posture In such dance
means something. The Japan
ese, for Instance, know that the
straight line represents antag
onism.. When I “represent a
warrior ready for battle every
line of my body is a straight
one. Even my sword, held erect, is
a rectilinear challenge. In active
battle it is the same. The straight
line represents directness, imoa-
tience, fury, deathful impulse.
Curves suggest leisure, repose, tne
gracious attributes, and India gives
us most of these.
A well-known American woman
keeps a statue of Buddha always in
the alcove of her bedroom. There
are many Buddhas, the starving
Buddha, the smiling Buddha, Bud-
dahs in most moods of humanity,
sharing the sufferings of humanity,
yet in all of them there is peace.
There is profound acceptance of
those conditions which cannot be
changed. This woman who keeps
the Buddha in a recess of her bed
room and was once so exceedingly
nervous that her enemies said she
was "flighty,” has acquired a qui
etude of manner and a gentleness of
speech that are marvelous. She has
absorbed the peace of the East
through casting her eyes upon the
statue of Buddha whenever she
was hurried or flurried.
Women can learn much of pa
tience, of locking in their energies
for use in an emergency, from a
study of the philosophies of the
East. They can learn to stand and
sit still. They can repress that ner
vousness that causes them to iidget.
They can compose themselves in a
crisis in their lives. They can, in a
word, become reasonable, and once
you have trained yourself to rea
sonableness the habit solves the
problems of your life. Reasonable
ness is a long step that draws you
near to happiness.
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I SAAC N. VAIL, the geologist of
Pasadena, Cal., in a new pam
phlet, seeks to prove that “King
Solomon’s Land of Ophir” in the
Bible was really in Alaska. Mr. Vail
has attracted widespread attention
by his many scientific explanations
of puzzling biblical statements.
Surprise has often been expressed
at the enormous quantities of gold
and silver obtained from Ophir by
the Hebrew kings. David alone ob
tained from it one hundred thou
sand talents of gold and a thousand
thousand of silver.
Mr. Vail recently expounded his
theory that the earth formerly pos
sessed a ring formed of water vapor
similar to that possessed by Saturn
now. This ring, spreading over a
large part of the earth, produced a
tropical climate’ in, the polar re
gions, hence the recent existence
of mammoths and other animals re
quiring a hot climate in Siberia and
Alaska. The fall of the water
canopy caused the glacial period in
the northern and southern hemi
spheres.
“I cannot see how a world can be
come tropical even up to the poles,”
says Mr. Vail, “without the aid of a
great telluric vapor shell acting as
a greenhouse world-roof. Such vapor
roofs must fall and end tropic scenes,
and. as we see. tropic conditions end
ed repeatedly us the ages have gone
by. I take but a small additional step
when I insist that a canopy, another,
and perhaps the last the earth ever
saw, produced the Edenic and Ante
diluvian age, and, falling, closed it
with the great deluge, and later by
a. vast increase of polar snows. J
think we have the strongest proof
that long after the flood, even down
to the birth of Christ, a stupendops
mass of world vapors—canopy snow-
clouds—hung over the northworld.
They are alluded to in the legendary
thought of every people, and far
down in time when a German
epic, the *Nibelungenlied,’ was
penned, the memory of that north-
world cloud gave that work its name,
the ‘Cloud Drama,’ or the ‘Song of
the Cloud.’ About this time also the
work of Snori Sturleson. called the
‘Heimskringla.’ the Ring’s Home, or
‘Circle’s Home,’ was penned in Ice
land or Scandinavia and abounds in
canopy memorials.”
Mr. Vail argues that the water
belt fell in polar regions and thereby
produced a great accumulation of
ice and snow. With the water fell
large quantities of gold, which is al
ways found in polar regions. Hence
the Land of Ophir must have been
in such a region. Here is the learned
geologist’s argument on this point:
“ ‘Hast thou entered into the
treasuries of the snow, or hast thou
seen the treasuries of the hail, which
1 have reserved against the time of
trouble, against the day of battle
and war?’ There can be no fuller or
stronger testimony than this from
the 38th chapter of Job. The man
who originally penned this passage
was familiar with the fact that snow
and ice contained treasure. When
and how did he get that information?
There are no two ways about it.
Man, four thousand years ago or
more, somehow, came to know that
gold w'as a hidden treasure in the
snow and hail (ice) that had fallen
from the skies. He got that informa
tion by gathering it from ancient
snow-banks and glaciers, either at
first hand in the days of Job, or the
information had come down to’ that
day from men who went to the
frozen north. I, matters not which
way the penman got it—it is enough
to know he got it.
“Now, if ’he sacred penman of
that day knew that there were treas
ures in the snow and ice of the
northworld, King Solomon. the
wisest of men, knew it. too; and
when he made a navy of ships at
Egion-geber, on the Red Sea, he
planned it to go to the snow-land,
where he knew there was gold. It
must ever he a prominent fact that
Solomon did not build his navy to
go to an unknown gold field Fleets
are not organized for that purpose,
and S< tomon was no exception, and I
see no possible escape from the con
clusion that in the days of Kings.
David and Solomon there was a land
known to all the nations as a gold-
yielding region—a region so amaz
ingly rich that fleets were built and
sent to gather the treasure, not to
prospect’ for it.
“Those of my readers who have
not followed the trend of annular
thought from its beginiug will ask
how gold became a constituent of
*now and hail. 1 have to remind
them that so surely as the earth
was once in a molten condition, the
great mass of the gold now in and
on the earth's crust was vaporized
and sent as igneous mist to the skies,
along with heated aqueous vapors,
. just as our mint furnaces send ; hem
aloft to-day. Gold is one of the most
readily vaporized metals when as
sociated with superheated aqueous
vapors or steam. These vapors went
to the telluric heavens together and
formed the outskirts of a vas’ primi
tive a>mosphere. There they came
under the control of tangential force,
which caused them to reunain on high
till the earth grew cold and solid.
There they became a part of the
earth's ring system. From that sys
tem they declined during the geo
logic ages, first becoming a succes
sion of canopies, like the great cloud
.shells of the planets Jupiter and
Saturn.
“These canopies lingered in the
heavens above the earth ‘ill recent
geologic times, and from the very
nature of things fell In the polar
regions. As the steaming waters car
ried the gold vapors to the skies,
and as centrifugal force held them
there till canopies formed from va
pors condensed, vast quantities of
gold must have existed in the snow
of every canopy. When the snows
fell, causing the glaciai epochs, the
gold fell with them. It mu3t be con
ceded that gold and hot vapors vent
up together and came back together.
Those vapors grew cold and precipi
tated their metals while under the
control of tangential energy in the
heavens. If we can imagine the
brilliant clouds now revolving around
the planet Jupiter to be snows, va
pors, cold and condensed, onc<?
driven to the Jovian skies by the
fires of that molten orb, and laden
with precipitated metals, as gold,
silver, etc., and reflect that these
must fall at Jupiter’s poles, we can
easily see how the snows of that
planet are gold laden.”
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Sixth of an Instructive
Series of Articles by the
Well-Known Dancer
Ruth St. Denis