Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
MRS. j. T. s.

ton, Condemns the Dance Kno,c,, as tn.
"Geansan,' and INDUCES In Sundry In,
teresting Reflections.
To the Editor OF the Globe.
A woman's opinion about prohibitory lawl
in regard to the manufacture and sale of in
toxicating liquors may not amount to muct
in the estimation of the lords of creation
yet have clear-cut views upon that subject
and with your permission will lay them be-
fore the public.
The enactment of law which meets with
the approval of very small minority of the
people must, of necessity, be dead letter
upon our statute book. If large majority
violated, and public sentiment sanctions the
violations, how shall the offenders be pun
ished or the law enforced?
have long since been convinced that to
attempt to secure the passage of prohibitory
laws was not the correct way to fight this
terrible and increasing evil. The all-absorb-
ing question is, how shall a campaign be or
canned for effective work in this important
held OF labor? am satisfied that the only
way to accomplish much good is by personal
effort with the drunkards themselves.
nave known some of the most wonderful
determinations in this city accomplished
through that instrumentality. Men have
been picked up from the cutters and made
sober and industrious citizens. Let every
total abstinence man and woman consider
themselves as so many special committees to
visit every confirmed drunkard known to
them, and by moral suasion lead them away
from the path that leads to death, and wres-
tie with them until they are willing to become
sober men. Keep up this missionary work
among these unfortunates until the name OF
q drunkard can be no longer recalled. In
this way permanent and lasting good can be
done, and the time will soon come when sa-
looms and liquor shops will be closed forever
In short, strive not after legislation, but rely
upon personal effort and the object sought to
be accomplished will be attained sooner or
later.
When was first engaged to Mr.. S. my
parents objected to my marriage to him
because he was known to be fond of social
glass. felt that had duty to perform,
and that was to reform him. We were since
married. Our friends were rich, and were
lavish in the expenditure of money to give
US good start. large house was pur-
chased and handsomely furnished. After
our bridal tour, which included visit to
Europe, we settled down as happily and
costly as young people could expect I was
only Is years old, and Mr.. S. was Just 25.
Soon observed that he was in the daily
habit of meeting an old friend, and the fact
that he had INDUCED little too freely was
frequently painfully apparent. This went
on from better to worse, until one day he
was brought home in beastly state of in
toxlcati0n. I cared for him as only wife
could or would until he got sober. It was
then that 1 delivered myself of my first
temperance lecture. I told him that if
he intended to continue this dis
gushing habit he could occupy
one portion of the house, and would occupy
the other.
Piqued at my words and manner, his
proud spirit rebelled, and he replied: GAIL
right, Jennie, should be only too happy to
carry out such an arrangement We sepa-
rated, and for several weeks I saw little OF
him except at his regular meals. About the
tenth day noticed that he had not taken
anything to drink, and for days he abstained
I saw that I had conquered. One evening
after tea, as we were leaving the dining room,
he threw his arms around me and solemnly
promised never to take another drink as lone
as he lived. Years have passed and he has
been faithful to his pledge, and we have
lived happily and contented, with nothing to
create ripple upon the smooth sea of ou1
lives.
We read of the terrible rayages of the
plague in Asia. We have in our midst a
moral plague which strikes at the morals of
our young people, and promises to be as ia
tai to the refined and moral sentiment of
the young as the Asiatic plague is to the vic
tins into whom it's deadly fangs are fast
ened. refer to the dance called s'the Ger
man. AS far as can learn of its history it
originated among the bold, vulgar women of
Paris, and they named it ''the German as
slur upon that virtuous people. These
fast women found it an attractive dance, en-
abling them to draw full houses. Shortly
after its appearance in Paris it appeared in
England, but was soon banished, as queen
Victoria saw its evil tendency and declared
against it, and its disappearance was almost
as sudden as its appearance. In the large
eastern cities it is never danced, but hero in
st. Paul it is all the rage. Dancing at best
is the essence of nonsense. A man or wo-
man jumping up and down to music, looks
to me as if he or she had a bee in an
uncomfortable place, and were trying t.
shake it out.
In this particular dance our daughters are
brought into close contact with men who
would not dare to take such liberties with
them under other and different circum-
stances. The whole dance is series of
round dances, a fact in itself sufficient to
condemn it. Young men are passionately
fond of ''The German and young girls en-
dure the pain and modification occasioned
by being participants rather than forego the
pleasures of society and be counted out.
Then, too, we have the juvenile Germans
at which the little children are taught Sc
that they can enjoy the delightful sensation
of being embraced by the arms OF
young men when they enter into
society. It is an immoral amusement, de-
grading to the higher and finer sensibilities
of young modest girls, and should be Danish
ed from genteel society just as the exhibi-
lions of the model artists we're hurled from
our theatres and opera houses.
It would seem strange for lady to write
an article as long as this and say nothing
about fashions. I attended fashionable
church last Sabbath, and during the service
I gazed around at the styles of bonnets
brought there for exhibition. I did not see
two alike. Now with such variety all can
have nice little gaudy bon
net to suit. The only articles I saw
which indicated the fixed style were the
bald-heads. counted twenty in my imme-
date front, and it was not good day fol
bald heads either, for it was very cold.
The Mexican dog, in his Southern home,
has no use for hair, and hence has none
but it is said that when these animals are
brought North they soon become covered
with dense and. thrifty growth. What {
pity it is that the same kind Providence for
gets to be gracious to the male portion O.
the human family in Minnesota.
Mrs. J. T. S.
The Right Nam IN the Right Place.
Isanti County Press