TO-DAY'S DANCING.
Dancing is still in fashion in Paris, but, unless I am mistaken (says an exchange), it is no longer a passion. There is weariness in the movements now, and many people prefer to look on at professionals. It may become the right way to (lance to look on. Well, for those of a certain age it would not he unbecoming. If older people would keep their wits brighter they would not have to bother so much about their body. Who mind a few wrinkles when the eyes above them sparkle, and who cares that the step of ago is slow when the tongue is tumble with wit ? Age may and doos leave its mark on the body to its detriment, but it Rhould enrich the mind, not impoverish it. If, with advancing yearn, we trained our mind in the right way, I am sure there would be lovely fashions m diess for the middle-aged. They would not bo dependent on designed for youth, and the world would be a better-looking place, for there should balance and harmony in all directions As it Is, wo see quite well that there la something wrong in the way elderly women must put on the same sort of frocks as their daughters and granddaughters, or be "out of the picture "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19292, 3 April 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)
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218TO-DAY'S DANCING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19292, 3 April 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)
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