The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-08

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sre respectfully solicited. and those who aid
have only to ask writer's to avoid personali-
tics and abuse.
Voices of the Grangers-Moral
OF DancinR-It Prevents Sui
eide and Insanity.
To all Changers, Sopereigns and Toll
ere In Minnesota:
BRoTHERs AND S1srERs:-The Terp-
sichorean art is a recreation and an &C.
complement of grace and gentiity, for
ladies and gentlemen, cheap and easy
to indulge, and needful in fal mers, me-
chanics and workingmen's homes, to re-
ieve the cherries monotony and pre-
vent the nervous depression, discourage
ment, dependency, suicide and insanity
sometimes resulting from dreary and
drudging isolation. Such genteel and
orderly exercise is altogether delightful,
exhilarating and healthful. Nothing is
more pleasant, inspiring and attractive
in social gatherings, or tends more to
unite and harmonic the hearts and
hands of the people, and to develop the
finer elements OF human nature. There
is no sin in it; but it's moral advantage
requires proper management and super
vision. Avoid the excuses of cost and
late hours; abstain from liquors, and
from smoking and chewing tobacco, and
observe modest and quiet manners.
Small companies and family circles are
always preferable to large crowds and
noisy and rushing hotel balls, which in
cline to be fast and boisterous. To
Dance all night till broad daylight,
And 20 home with the girls in the
morning;
is often quite coarse, wild and extrava-
CANT, and lacks the refining and civiliz-
ing of smaller groups of acquaintance
and friends.
But, to call neighbors together, at
their own retired homes, for three or
four hours, at little or no expense, for
the varied, pleasant exercises of the
dance, the waltz, the singing of good
songs, conversation and declarations,
perhaps, and the playing of innocent
and amusing games, is not only perfect
ly harmless, but really charming and
beautiful; and any church or religion
that forbids or discourages such things,
must naturally and necessarily consist
of an ignorant, bigoted, lugubrious,
gloomy and unhappy quality. The less
the world has of it the better. Never
turn flower garden into graveyard;
but rather, dress the grave with bloom
ing and fragrant roses, as far as possible.
To expend money for training man
kind to a fearful, fearful, moaning and
grooming piety, is a pitiful and cruel
absurdity and curse. The object of
life is happiness; therefore don't be
miserable; but jump right straight and
square out of that most foolish feeling
at once. What's the use? Be glad
you were born, and glad you live, in
spite of the hard times! Catch the
bright, warm sunshine of joyous glee.
Y Make the red blood dance in the full
swelling veins, and the heart and feet
to bound with love, affection and gener-
GUS impulse.
The distinguished and pious lyric
writer, DR.. Watts, says, in his popula,
orthodox hymns:
The SORROWS of the mind
Be banished from the place:
Religion never was designed
To make our pleasure less.
So, then, dance in the family, the
range, the industrial lodge, the coun
Gil, the school recess, the lyceum, the
picnic, the pinery lumber camp, and II
the damp, dismal mines. Dance on the
holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas
New Years and at the graf Centen
NAL. Dance at the fairs; dance of th<
long faces, so solemn, sober, gloomy
and silly, and dance common sense in
Shake the people into closer bonds Of
love and unity. Oh, workingmen; why
dance the dance of despair and death
regular living, walking, perpetual
funeral-slave and beggars, in povert.
restitution, want and suffering, wher
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