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I “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, PHOTO BT O SARONT “The message from the Orient is absolute self-control. She keeps her powers locked in to be used only in emergency.” * THE NATIONAL MARKET PLACE SONGS. •till; MO Mix WRITING SONGS.—We pay hun- dreds of dollars a year to successful writers. Experience unnecessary. Song poems wanted with or without music—will pay one-half erf piofits if fc *kessful. Send us your work to^iay. AC CEPTANCE GUARANTEED IK AVAILABLE. .Largest concern in the country. iFree particu lars. I>ug« 1 ale Co., Dept. 33, Washington, D. C. 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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. Was the Golden Land of Ophir in Frozen Alaska? I MADE $5<i.0<)O in five years with a small mail order business; began with $5- Send for free booklet. Tells how. Hea< ock 797 lxn k- > port, N Y SHOW BUSINESS. STAGE Instruction—uSaanple rages for 2c. stamp. Stage 'Studio, Station 3, 249 \V 38th. N.Y. 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.” R/der Agents Wanted io town to ride and exhibit sample 1913 bicycle. Writs for special offer. T51 8 °E3:!r-$fO to S27 with CoaBtvir Brakes Proof tires. tan a 1st*mq4«i» c7 <#9 all Ihntnukn . . 9t '■ '• 11/0 .Secant/ - Hand Wheel* r.M >ut« »t modal., OO S3lt“ AcfoBT d£»A RINO S ALB We Shift so Approval without a To IftWY&trRIAIL. . coaster brake rear wheels, lamps, sun dries. parts and repairs for all makes of bicycles k*V usual prices,. DO DOT DUY un*l you «e« esri-ata)ornwand offfr. Write now. MJEA D CYCLE CO. Dept. YT-63 CHICAGO Tl* Sixth of an Instructive Series of Articles by the Well-Known Dancer Ruth St. Denis