Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1857-03-26
.fD1S f0r Gbinkers.
From the Water CuEs Journal
xHuUEHTs III szARE M1EuEEs.
By HARRIET \. AusnE.

determined that the devil should no
longer mon0p0Iize ,IH the best music
When viii good Enen become wise
enough 70 deny the devil srightt0 have
all the dancing! /!
DaReiAgi At thevery sound Of the
word, the blood leaps more cheerily
through the veins, the face brightens,
the step Eghtehs. The man or woman
weary with physical toll Who comes at
evening into the dancing group, and
listens TO the merry notes Of the violin,
feels, at once, the hetsUiness Of his
fatigue lifted from him, and he can Join
for an hour IN the dance with positive
Fefreshment to his aching muscles. and
retire to his bed less weary, and enjoy
i sFeeter sleep, than If be had gone
directly from his work.
The person Of setlentary 1zfeis bene-l
flied even more than the other, By this
amusement. He needs the muscular
exereise, and as his movements harmo-
1ize with the inspiring music, his whole
nature, physical, social. and spiritual,
is brought into more harmonious action.
For the thinker, no other indoor ex-
ercise, relaxation, or amusement equals
this. 1t diverts the nE1ld from severe
thought, while it pleasantly occupies
it, it affords brisk muIcular exercise,
It euItiyates sociabi1ity, # fosters one
lf the most refining and sgftenine ele-
rnents IN our nature-the love Of
music.
1t an aInuseraents which affords
equal pleasure and equal benefit to the
Young, and old, and midiHe-aged.-
Thus bringing all ages into-close prox-
unity, each Is benefited BY contact
with the other; the old, BY the elastici-
ty and hiIarity Of youth; the young,
1 hy the dee0rum and prudence Of age
And vet religion, as developed and
illustrated in our ,tge, decides that the
devil shall haFeal the dancing, and vir-
tuaIly, sends all Ehe viii have dancing,
to the devil afterit. Churches and Sy-
mods, and presbytel-ies and other eeclesi-
astical bodies hold vediscussions on
the subject, and EsrgsolueH that it is
e'sinfuI' to dance, and @adEise" their
members 20 abstain from It themselves,
TO forbid it to their children, and dis
eoantenance and discourage it IN the
world: and SO dancing is considered
aiTeligi04s, and professors Of religion
win not have it In their houses, and
froEn on it In the houses Of their
sneighbUrs- But it is not expected that
there vii be anY religion n public
/ houses and hotels, and dancing can be
had there. Most persons Of mature
are can better afford to be denied this
amusement, than to forfeit their Fepu-
tation for sobriety- and good principles,
and they are not often f0rnd IN ball
ro0urs. But the young are more i'm
pulsive. and for them to dance seems
almost an instinct. When they get
one taste of It, they are SIRE to eOyet
another. Many have their c0nscien-
Il tiousness and frnness so trained and
developed that they rsn dery Them
selves anv pleasure which they believe
/ to be wrong. But hradreHs and thou
sands Of youth, sons and daaghters,
| too. of pi0us fathers and rnothers, sCid
/ dance, though 1t we're on the edge Of
ruin; they can not dance In then
father's parlors--they viii 60 where
they can-to the baIl-rOom5 where they
Iline.Ie With such companions and such
ass0ciatiens as cluster round public
! houses. And as the opportunity te
dance Is not very frequently enjoyed
they wish to make the time as long a:
pcssibIe, and often dance en- tiIlmorn-
II ing.
Balls as they are usual = conducted
can not be too strongly eondemned.-
: The late hours, the unhealthy dress
! the rich food, eaten at midnight, tht
: unIrineipled men eftsR heguentins
such assemblies the very glaes o
meeting. and tn Z fact that It is con
sIderad an unfit place for parents ant
guariians, are 1uinous I'd morals ans
health- And the chsrch is responsible
for the character of these assemblies
It makes no discrimination between
; balls and dancing. Hssy9'tO the Young
! IF yoa viii danee, it Isl the prope
place for yu4 tO gos and It provide
no other place trf amusement IN plaep
Of this-=and It neeI net. for nofhin.
can be more innocent and right thai
dzneing IN itself considered. TheloEl
Of It is almost zniversaI. Scarcely
+ Young person 'soaId be found, unles
: some blight Is On siiFn, UhOs Fl Der
mittsd, would n0t be fund Of IL 8
T tie olaen time, men whose hearts wer
flIed with graiitaass and love to Go
for great bene6ts from his hands
ss3aneed before him. 2 Surely thi
Vas but the nihtEIrsA Expresses Of
81 glad heart. We should, In gnr da5
redeem dancing from tie aozasnion 8