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San Francisco Sunday Call. THE GIRL in EASTER WHITE DANTINESS, expen- I J sive daintiness, and M simplicity, the art ful simplicity which conceals art, are again the keynotes of dancing frocks and evening gowns for the girl just blos soming into womanhood. The gown shown at the left is a dancing-fen gih frock of ivory colored en iff on over a n underdress of liberty in the same shade. The tunic and the loose corsage are laid in deep pleats and finished with bead trimmings. The next gown is for rather more mature wear. The ma terial is white liberty and NERO'S REVEL DANCES Elisa and Eduardo Cansino in their wonderful shadow dance. Specially photographed for this lagfazine. Brought to America by the , Little Spanish Artists Whom Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish; Discovered in Old Seville. SPANISH and Mooris-h dances picked by Nero and introduced in the Roman smart set nineteen cen turies ago have reached America in a splendid state of preservation. They are the real historic Moro-His panlc thing—Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mm. Reginald Dβ Koven and Mrs. Henry Clews can and will prove it rbese ladies invited Elisa and Eduar do Cansino from Andaiusian Seville to display and illustrate the beautiful old traditional Spanish dances here as an fcxotic luxury of social entertainment and quite on a non-professional basis. The Nero pedigree of these dancee id genuinely historical, as follows: Nero was the greatest sporting Em peror that Rome ever had. He acted as grand master of the revels, ignored the fire department and police or dinances and personally took an active part in the introduction of terpsi chorean novelties with ginger in them —what would be the Roman equivalent of the one-step and turkey trot. His famous specialty consisted in bringing dancers from Gades (the mod Ivory colored chiffon over liberty, uith belt of pink taffeta rib bon. era Cadiz of Spain), celebrated in an cient times as to-day for girls of fiery, tropical beauty, who danced to African cymbals and castanets. The principal dances handed down to us from this classical source are: La Malaguenay c"l Torreo—a dance of a Malaga girl and a bullfighter, in three movements. Los Panaderoa and La Bulerias, two !ot the oldest Spanish dances. They : are danced with a rhythmic accom panimept of castanets —the right hand plays what would correspond to the treble clef and the left hand plays the bass. La Sevilliana, the dance familiar to every child and old woman on the streets of Seville, Spain. It is danced lln five movements and is an inter r i/ressojwnite liberty and ehanlilly lace, w i t hjj ong train. , petration of the Drama of Love in a 1 wonderfully idealized manner. These dances involve the three di { visions of dancing—the body, the j hands and me feet. The foot movement comes from the j classical ballet, as in Italy and France 1 to-day. The body movements come i from North African influences, particu larly the Moorish. The hand and head movements are native to Sicily and j Spain. The child wonders who display these things to artistic New York are Elisa j and Eduardo Cansino, aged seventeen and eighteen, respectively. They are the children of a famous Madrid danc j ing master, Antonio Cansino, born in Seville, Andalusia —therefore naturally Cream chiffon over pink liberty, trim med with fur. contemptuous of Madrid, which has not such "blood" for dancing as the Spanish gypsies have. Their father, Antonio Cansino, re vived the Spanish fandango, which had been dead for fifty years, composed new Elisa and Eduardo Cansino came from Seville to dance the beautiful traditional Spanish dances for society. THERE ARE LOTS OF JOBS IN HAWAII. SAM'S rigliL liuie, tight lit tle territory of Hawaii is the . newest nesting place for a real boom. . Financially, reports E. A. Mott-Smith, j Secretary of the territory, our Pacific j possession was never in better condi- j tion. Small as it is in area, Hawaii j ranks thirteenth in revenue of all our { customs districts. Imports and ex ports show a gain of more than $14, --000,000 over the year before, evports to this country alone totalling $53,989, --223 and imports from the United States reaching $20,289,207. About | $6,000,000 trade is done with other I countries. Twice as many homes here were! taken last year as in any other year, j Nine new steamers were built or com- j GOWNS % mm * noi^s music for it and adapted it for the stage under the name of the "Tango," which is not the ridiculous exhibition one sees in this country, but a dance expressive of love's drama in panto mime. pitted lor ihe increase in Hawaiian traffic. All the principal harbors are now dredged or protected by break waters. In 1912 Hawaii produced its record crop of sugar and pineapples. Some thirty-five new concerns, with capital aggregating $3,365,000 were started during the year, and nearly $10,000,000 capital was added to ex isting corporations. Land transfers increased 35 per cent, and Honolulu's new buildings broke all records. Many new schools, libraries, wharves, waterworks, sewers, rail ways, trolley lines and roads have been built or are building. Work Is well advanced on a huge wireless plant which can exchange messages not only with the Pacific coast but chantilly lace allover. The skirt and the tunic are finished with long silk fringe, which also surrounds the long fish' (ail train. The panier is of white charmeuse. Extreme simplicity to the point of severity is the keynote of the next costume, a dancing frock of white chiffon over 'liberty silk with sleeve and tunic outlined in red silk cherries. The last costume shown is an evening gown iof cream chiffon over pink liberty silk. The tunic is decorated with three straight ruffles\and out lined with fur. Will they dance the Cachuchu? They laugh when you ask this question. There is no such dance in Spain. It was manufactured by Fannie Ellsler as an expression of her own fantastic Ideas. It is a joke in Spain. with the Orient as well. Skilled office labor is in great de mand. There are two Jobs for every decent, industrious young man In Hawaiian offices. "One of Honolulu's greatest needs at the present time from a commercial standpoint," says Secretary Super of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion, "is trained clerks. We are con tinually being called upon to supply young men for such positions as col lectors, stenographers, typewriters, assistant bookkeepers, and a large variety of positions which may all be classed under the head of Junior clerks, and while the night school classes here at the association are continually preparing young men for these callings the supply does not equal the demand."