Eel Glide Dance Threatens Jazz; Oldest Teacher Begins 71st School Year

1919

Eel Glide Winning Many Followers of the Jazz

New York, Sept. 12 -- The Eel Glide is the latest fantastic step to appear in dancing circles here, and it is beginning to threaten the popular jazz which hitherto has had the largest following. The name of the newest dance is about the best description of it. The dancers glide along the floor with sliding steps in which the feet are never raised, either at the heel or toe. The dancers gyrate in sinuous turns and twists in time with the music, which is a combination of jazz and minor chords.

--Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, New York, September 12, 1919, page 5.


AGED TEACHER BEGINS 71ST YEAR IN SCHOOL

Attleboro, Mass., Sept. 12. -- Miss Elizabeth Carpenter Blanding, the oldest school teacher in Massachusetts, started on her seventy-first consecutive year as a school teacher yesterday.

She observed her 87th birthday on July 18th. Despite her age, she is hale and hearty. She lives alone, doing her own housework, cooking, etc. She also finds time to participate in the activities of the Congregational church, the W.C.T.U., the Ladies Auxiliary of the Y.M.C.A. and many other societies. Her eyesight and hearing are unimpaired. She expects to die in harness.

--Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, New York, September 12, 1919, page 15.