Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-19
4 Dancing Georgian. :.

While a low-necked clergyman of
Brooklyn has been plunging, for the
sake of his innocent flock. into all sorts
OF scenes of debauchery in New York.
and relating his experience therein to
crowded and delighted audiences, the
Georgia Presbyterian Synod has been
listening to the opinions of its reverend
members On the subject of round dances.
Naturally some of these opinions were.
founded on experience. Brother Block
had been convicted of the crime of
waltzing, not like a dervish or David
before the ark, or Mr.. Talmage in the
throes of sermon, but of waltzing with
woman. His Mortified church had
cut him off; the Presbytery had sus-
tanned the church, and all the powerful
clerical minds of that persuasion in the
State were wrestling with Brother
Blocks appeal. After a weeks hot
work the appeal was sustained, and now
the Presbytery appeals in turn to the
General Assembly of the Church, which
meets in May, 1879. Thus, what began
in parlor in Georgia to the strains of
Strauss will become national question
amid the thunders of the Presbyterian
Church. In view Of all this it is well
to know how they look at it in Georgia.
Some of the clergymen, it appears, had
seen various kinds of dancing with the
naked eye. There scanned to be curl
GUS general admission that man might
dance alone, but there the line had to be
drawn. The style of argument may be
inferred from Rev. Leftwich's address,
in which he said TIT is lawful for the
sexes to disrobe separately; it is wrong
for them to disrobe together" Strip
ping to his work and applying this ar
gument to dancing he said Separate
the sexes and you deal fatal blow to
the modern Dance" He remembered
when the modern dance was the most
lascivious; then came the polka; then
the German and "werse STILL" It may
strike some worldly people that the rev.
erend gentleman's facts are mixed, and
his observations little wide of the
mark but, then, although he knows so
much he did not claim to be an expert.
Not at all, not even majority Of the
| Synod, took this stand. Many liberal
views were expressed. Still, if dancing
is to be crime, we want to know what
the asserting judges think. Rev. Mr..
CARTRIDGE had never seen dance until
he was twenty years of age, and then it
was ian old square dance" The effect
on him he describes as something aw-
full, 1t was, he says, Calculated to in
spire the licentious feelings of the
heart" Rev. Mr.. Cleveland had seen
"stag' dances at college, but he says,
and no wonder, that they did not fas
cinate him as did the "promiscuous So
cial dances" at home. Rev. Mr.. Miner
was in favor of dancing tops, dancing
waves and dancing lunatics, but he alb
hored seeing man and woman dance
for it was as fascinating as it was fash
ionable. This is all very grim and very
Calvinistic; but it is queer how a lady
in the mazes of the dance appears to af-
feet these hardened old saints, who
should be proof against great dea
more.
1t was on the eve of the battle O
; Leuctra and Pelopidas, who had mad,
hard march, was looking dismally a
one of his sandals, which need half-s
ing very badly.
at puts me in mind" he said, lifting
up the Tapping edges, 'of Bunions So
ley Wore. / can't walk till I get il
fixed, either"
Epaminondas shook his head re-
proachfully at his friend, who he ha(
, noticed was becoming addicted to thai
sort of thing.
"You remind me-" he said presently
/ after silent interval in which he hat
, been thinking of the national debt and
wondering who was going to pay it
) "you remind me Of an old wooden
pump"
|. "And wherefore?" asked Pelopidas.
Because" said Epaminondas, 81
| won't work without its sandal"
Pelopidas was amazed, as well h
might be, for Epaminondas, you know
was good young man. Nepos says b,
r was Daodestus contine'as a3rudens grdvis
teacher of a young ladies' Bible Glass;
| aoeritets 6eUi, careful of his money!
FORTS manu-, "afraid of women; amin,
3 naocinao, "a red-ribbon man." "Adc,
. ventatis deligeas, and was expelled from
the Photographers Association ut n,
| joco. because he wouldn't even lie
little"; Quidena naentretur, ''for tn,
, sake of joke" So Pelopidas only
stared.
us its sandal" he asked after while
t $50 essential, then, to its succor?"
II Epaminondas looked scornfully ant
pityingly at his friend.
3 "You talk, +" he said, "like cOntribu
tor to an English funny paper. Let thi
be the last Of such conversations between
us'
"That sounds like Punch" said Pc
lopidas." "You are getting the uppe
r hand of me-" And he laid warning
accent on the upper" like a guide pos
r at the crossroads. 80
''Then," said Epaminondas, ''if tina
D is awl you have to say, allow me t.
$ waxed end to you the hand Of friend
/ ship"
t agreed" said the friend, land thi
e will heel the breaches of controversy. ,
: Epaminondas constdt ut,iusque, wa
8 about to get in; nee aerius potuisse
something about begged out'" SCI
o7'a'ses ante Sc maenaorioe, when it oc
CURED to Goth of them"; .fuisse erbi at
que anaperio, "that they were getting
3 their jokes" 81 Qadndo opifcuna, ''abou
eighteen or twenty centuries"; qui suo
: tueri non poteTat, 'ahead oftheir times.
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