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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1899
Page
6
A feature on the rise of the automobile girl in New York, detailing how bold social figures adopt car culture, fashion, and skillful driving amid urban life. It also surveys early 1900s dance evolution from waltz to quadrille, cotillion, and modern flirtations with new steps, noting social reception and stylistic shifts.
Paris July 4. I return from Lourdes to Parisian sunshine and gaiety while recalling the village in the South of France. The grotto bears a vision of the Blessed Virgin and a healing well. thousands come yearly seeking cures, with patients ferried by the White Train for the sacred grotto. I witnessed misery on the journey, a lame child and a consumptive traveler, yet the grotto and its shrine draw faith and praise from believers and skeptics alike. The White Train, run by the French government for the poor, transports worshippers to the grotto, chapel, and shrine, where reports of cures, including a girl walking unaided after prayer and a plunge into the icy pool, are circulated amid reverence and awe.
The article traces Anglo-Saxon dancing from rustic Maypole times to 19th century ballroom shift. It notes polka origins in 1844 at a French duchess salon, rise of galop and quadrille, famous leaders like Augustus Lumley, royal interest including Queen Victoria, and enduring popularity across society and courts.
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