The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-05-30

lives are yesr sacrificed.
THE MORAL EFFECTS.
Balls are to be Stunned because they
are sensual. The word is used in its
best aud its worst sense. All its fasei-
nation Of color, odor, music, appeals on
ly to sense, and has nothing elsvatiDg or
ennobling in it. The beauty Of color IN
the tiny violet, or that overspreads the
heavens with glory, means God. Does
arrap cement Of color, flowers, and cano-
pies in the ball room mean anything Of
this? Music in the parlor quickeus
sensibihties, brings glad tears, strength
ems love; music on the field wakeus pa.
triotism, stirs to noble deeds and
thoughts music in the church and cor
cert room is welded to The holes: thought
of ages and, as far as man is able, makes
apprehcusib'o the harmony Of hcaven.---
Does music in the ball room mean any
thing Of this? No, all, from floor to
ceiling, from first to last, appeals only TO
sense, stirs no noble faculty Of soul
This is what is meant by being sensual
in the best sense. DO you shrink from
reading how they are sensualin the worst
sense? no; more than we shrink from
writing It. But If parents desire their
children to !carn to dance, which will
surely lead them to balls, as the ignoble
art Of scIi,defense leads to prize fights,
they ought to to willing to hear the
worst Of it.
Balls are sensual in the wor5. sense by
the mode OF dress INDUCED in, by the
movements rracticed, and the stimulus
of passion always provided and drank.
What that mode Of dress is you are we'll
aware. What good motive for wearing
dress deemed Indecent By men accus.
toned to the police court? What man
of q fac sense Of honor can surrender .
wife or daughter, dressed q Ia mode, to
the h9nGs ot a young man, not over ex-
csllcnt with reputation somewhat pc
ouljar, to he wa|tzed with. without feel
iuG a sense of shame? What woman Of
Oelicacy can submit to it without shame!
10 this mode OF dress. this tinkling Of
music. this cXctcm Mt OF brilliant light,
this witchcrv of motion, this intoxizatioa
of every sense, add the intoxicating cup,
and what shall we expect if no divine
power is invoked to guide man amid all
these tendencies to ruin? If the wine
cup partially masters you in the weak
ness of that late hour, what shall keep
you from fully following out the teuden.
cies OF the piacs, loung men often 90
to the house of intamy that would never
have gone there but for the excitement
of the one place that naturally feeds the
other. Do you protest that that one does
not? How has 1t been with young men
you have known? Why are balls used
for this express purpose by keepers Of
dcns of infamy? Is that low FIFE p
/ Glance at the highest. Where did the
wife of a representative at Wnshin .ton
learn to follow the beck of an attorney
general? Ter husband had a.ways tax
en- her to balls This Instance came to
Eight With murder for an accompaniment.
Other ms ances all over the land, known
and hot known, wiring hearts with grief
as intense.
II rrAS- uS - ctnVrau9 tuls suplect.-
We siolen TO romomhor that in the days
of the reatest d'gencracy of Rome it
was u.ssraco Tor any respectable man
to dance that Cicero said, No man
,.non- ~ ~ saa'.,-i 5aj: 49, ~ .ooi
Mohamlnc4an paradise dancing is not
reckoned. Nav, in all the harcms of vo.
luptuers kingdoms it il forbidden bv
law. /. was reserved for Charles VI. of
France, called the Mad, and lis faith
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