Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-07-22

like o wanton wind among flowers. Tho whole
thing,is dangerously beautiful. These women,
being;bsautiful, knoMit and they are as grace
sui with the consciousness asfulls spetaled flowers
swayying onstheif long stems sand riaed by the
wind. what c..snss: for q amoralist! But if
youare aman of fheafl you vim ifeel deep pity
fortheso weak beings; and viii withhold harsh
words. Who knows theirsmhfortunes and their
temptations; who; can readsthsir hearts? Keis
blessed thing for US thaaGod judgeth rot as man
judges! All these dances, however, arc not po-
etically beautiful; for instance,
TIE "CAN-CAS."
- This ean-Can is danced nightly in the White
Fawn. 1t is beautiful, but very vulgarly so. The
perpetrators Of it are two Germans, Mile Sohlke
and Mon Vor ANNE. Each one Of them wsars
the veryssma ,stinodicum ofScfothi0g sthsecahs
be imagined. .Thesfg eleasaof mother Eve were
heavy winter raimsnt compared to the Caa-can
costume! And then the eyolutions ~ As we
behsld them, we inyoluhtariiy exelaiped to our
self: This i certainly surnounti3g the. in.ur-
mountaBle and passing the imSassable! The
two dancers leap and vault and whisl, and mix
their legs SO cunningly together thai, as they
revolve with the rapidity o. lightning, it is to-
tally impossible to tell tothsr from which; im-
possible to distinguish the female from the male
legs. And then, to wind up. Sohlke achieves q
miraculously high-action movement with hsr
right leg and kicks Won Hamme on the nose with
the tip of her toe, whereupon both spin andgyrate
as if the galyanic battery had been applied to
them, and sohlke falls into Won Hamma's arms,
with her right leg still scrupulously maintaining
the high-action movement And then comes a
thunder of applause from. the audience. And
SohIke and Won Hamme smile and bow. and kiss
their hands as if they had done IN extremely
virtuons act. And which is most to Blame, dam
GERS or audience9 Audience by all means. These
dancers dance for money and applause, and il
their audiences give them these for absolute in.
decency, they (tho dancers will certainly be
more and moro indecent People who sit and
applaud the cau-Can should certainly not have
the impudence to decry its immortality. t'''
New York is absolutely in the greatest possible
need Of respectable places of amusement. W.
do not mean to indulge in any pharisaical can
about the iudecencies Of the modern drama aut
spectacle, but the truth stands out, that with al
her houses Of entertainment (not for man ant
beast, but for pleasure seeking men and women.
New York has none 70 which refined, well breS
people would care to resort. AT least, such j.
undoubtedly the case at present. During the
winter perhaps it is better for then Wallack aut
Booth do make some show of maintaining the
legitimate drama. As things 60 just now, there
is not theatre in the city thas can claim strict
respectablity for Tho entertaininentsit furnishes
Indecency draws. better than anything else
hence it is kept on the stage. 4 : - eF7tf
And now, we turn almost naturally from the
indecent'theatres to tho infinitely mora indecent
MusIcAL-DANcING-DR HOUSES. %
The mania for these houses is very great; and
there is scarcely block on Broadway, or any
other Of tho great streets, but has one or two
Those. on Broadway are not go openly and re-
votiu gly immoral as those on other streots, such
Us the Bowery and other thorougbfares IN the
lower part of the city. The police, ever ant
anon, make descents upon these wretched place.
and close .hcm up but despite this, they flourish
and abound without limit and without number
Most of them are underground. far below th'
level of the sidewalk night is their time. Wish
ing to see New York, as to its crime, poverty
want, wo, wretchedness and degradation, We hav'
visited, 10 company with German friend VIII
knows The ins and outs, more than a dozen o
these houses in different parts of the city. .snt
we have been terribly and inefably shocked
Coneisely stated, these Drink Dance Houses are
breathing holes of hell, trap-doors Of the bottom
less pit They generally consist of sometwo orthre'
rooms. You step from the street into bnr-roou
where fash mon and lewd women lurk and drink
and carouse and blaspheme. The, women are the
walters they are dressed, in shabby and dirty
manner, after the style of the 'dancers in the
Black Crook and White Fawn. They expose
their fascinations in the grossest manner, and
the men, be they willing or moi, must submit to
their Establishments and caresses. But this is
not all. In many cases, there is q /" saloon" back
of the bar-rooin. Along the wall of this room,
a bench extends usually on three sides; on this
bench sit the spectators. At the further end Of
the room there is a band Of musicians, and in the
open space are whirng and spinning more half.
naked girls. Many Of these girls are pretty, but
the majority of them have n most horribly worn
out and dehased look. 4 decent man, in the full
possession and cquipoisc OF his faculties, canonly
regard them with sorrow unspeakuble and pity
too deep for tears. AID in this room the caresses
and The establishments are yet more open and
more dcmonstratvo. And ut this point We must
stop, although the half is scarcely told AS We
have said above, these houses arc, almost num-
berleas. Our. friend informed us that the average
number of girls in each of these houses is about
ten and that the number of girls who enter
them yearly cannot be far from two thousand.
And now, until tomorrow OF next day, we bid
you adeu. j. I. Is.
For the Advertiser.
At meeting of the Central Democratic Com
mittee held in the Court House on Saturday last,