"Little and Skinny"

“Little and Skinny” Is Way 10-Year-Old Dancer Likes Them

(Special to the Eagle)
Sea Cliff, L.I., March 18—There is a dancing class for children here which has become a very popular one, both with the boys as well as the girls. Little youngsters up to 10 years or so are learning social dancing and one bright boy was recently asked by his mother as to why he always seemed to pick the same little girl for a partner. It was suggested to him that possibly it might be more pleasant for him to select different partners for each dance to which the boy in question—a typical, jolly, whole-souled embryo citizen—replied:

“She’s little and skinny and I can drag her around easily.”

Doubtless the “slenderizing vogue” is unheard of so far as the little chap is concerned, but he apparently gave his unqualified approval with a frankness that his elders would hesitate to employ.

[Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 18, 1924, L.I., p.2.]