"Little Egypt," tiny, graceful, sensually pretty, performed a "danse du ventre," at the conclusion of a long program of crude and often ribald "turns."

People think that the so-called danse du ventre is an unnatural distortion, and in its customary exaggerations so it is.

The Hindu servants taught her more things than she should have known; and at one time her stepfather found her performing the danse du ventre.