The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-04-24
Dancing alsd the Reard

In DIR. Browns late racy and valuable work
on Health, = he thus refers to the "sin" of dan
cling: .n .v.. .g-.Fy er.s- q
Dancing is just the music for the feet, the
gladness OF thA young legs, and is well called
the poetry of motion. 1 remember a story ola
good old Antburgher minister. 1t was in the
days when dancing was held to be great sin
and to be dealt with by the Session. Jessie,
comedy, good, and blithe young woman, a great
fsvorite with the minister, had been guilty of
dancing at a friends wedding. She was sum
moned before the Session to be dealt with
the grim old fellows sternly concentrating their
eyes upon her, as she stood trembling in her
| striped short gown and her pretty bare feet
The Doctor, who was one ofdivinity, and
deep thinker,greatly plying her, said, "Jessie,
my woman, were ye dancin?' EYES," sob
bed Jessie. d" Ye maun cen psomise never to
dance again, Jennie" ~ wull sir wull
promise" with curtsy. "Now what were ye
thinking o, Jessie. when ye were dancin' tell
us truly" said an old elder who had bsen
preacher in his youth. Nae Ill, sir" sebbed
out the dear little woman. "Then, Jessie, my
woman, aye dance" cried the delighted Doc.
tor. And so say l, to the extent that so long
as our young girls think mae i'll, !" they may
dance their feets ill. And so on with all the
round Of the sunshine and flowers God has
thrown on and along the path of his children.
6-HN VA ehS AudbbSl vi tuo D6dtup no tuuS par
losophises: H aat E.F alb
" / am for boards, out and out, because |
think the maker of the beard was and is
This is rerson enough; but there are many 9TH
ers. The misery of shaving, its expense, its
consumption of time-a very corporation exist
ing for no other purpose but to shave mankind.
Campbell, the poet who had always a bad ra.
zor, suppose, and was up late nights. said he
believed the man of civilization who lived to
be sixty had suffered more pain in Titles every
day in shaving, than a woman with large fam
lily had from her yings in in, This would be
hard to prove; but it is process that never
gets pleasanter by practice; and then the waste
of time and temper--the ugliness OF being i'll OF
unshaven. Now, we can easily see advanta-
ges in it; the masculine gender is calculated
to be more out of doors and more in all wealth
ers than the smooth .chinned ones, and this pro-
tects him and his Adams apple from harm
1t acts as the best of all respirators to the ma
son and the east wind. Besides, it is glory
and it must be delightful to have and to stroke
natural beard--not one like bean stalks or a
bottle brush, but such beard as Abrahams or
Abdel Kader's. 1t is the beginning ever to cut,
that makes all the differences. l hazard the
DRY, that no head or beard should ever be cut,
or needs it, any more than the eyebrows or eye
ashes. The fines: head of hair i know is one
which was never out. 1t is not too long it is
SOIL anu tnlcK. ne secret Wnere TO stop grow
ing is in the end of the native untouched hair.
If you cut it off, the poor hair does not know
when to stop; and if our eyebrows were so
cut they might be made to hang over our eyes,
and be wrought into veil. Besides, think Of
the waste of substance in the body in hewing
away much hair every morning, and enceur-
aging an endless rotation of crops Well, then,
| go in for the boards of the next generation,
the unshorn beings whose boards will be wag-
cling when we are away but of course they
must be clean. But how are we to sup our
porridge and kali. Try it when young, when
there is just a shadowy down on the upper lip,
aud no fears but they will do al this elegant
ly" even. Nature is slow and gentle in her
teaching, even the accomplishment of the
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