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THE " GENTLEMANLY" GAME: FOOTBALL CARNEGIEISED. lieeentlv Mr. Carnegie, when speaking at an American university, severely condemned football as often played, on the ground that "the spectacle of educated foot-ball-players rolling over one another 111 the dirt is not- gentlemanly. J his has suggested the above amusing sketch.
DANCES THE GERMAN EMPEROR HAS FORBIDDEN. The father!v interest that His M'aje.-tv W'ilhelm 11. takes in his subjects has been twice, experienced at. Crefeld. Some years back lie sent a regiment to the town in order to fulfil a promise he had made to the young ladies that they should have officers to dance with. Recently an International Congress of Authors. _ Masters, and Teachers of Dancing, was held there, and His Majesty attended one of the meetings, where he was acclaimed "High Protector of Choregraphy." The business over which he presided was the preparation of a list, of dances that should be favoured by society, and another list of dances that should be forbidden. Ihe forbidden dances are (reading from left to right) the mattcliiche, the cake walk, the trans-Atlantic, and the epileptic Boston. The forbidden list is notably of American extraction.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13393, 23 January 1907, Page 9
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193ILLUSTRATED ODDS AND ENDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13393, 23 January 1907, Page 9
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