Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-26
SAM JONES ON DANCING.
The Georgia Evangelist Puts Hot Shot
Into the Seductive Waltz.

Listen: When that girl began the
giddy whirl of the dance in the
ball room that was the time to
get scared. When you found your boy
spending more money than he ought,
that was the time to get shocked.
"Sow cards and reap gamblers. |
know Pm called transcendentalist
and called puritan, but God save my
family from cards and profanity, and
whisky and dances and let the world
call me what it will.
"Sow parlor dances and reap ball
rooms. Sow ball rooms and reap round
dances. Sow round dances and reap
dudes and dudines. Sow dudes and
dudines and reap half thimbleful of
calves's foot jelly. Applase and
laughter renewed again and again. |
wish you wouldn't laugh any more to-
night for never felt so solemn in my
life. For Gods sake hear me with a
solemnity and earnestness worthy of
the cause. But you say so many funny
things. If you only knew how many l
have to keep back you wouldn't blame
me for the few which creep out.
"Hear me, boys, girls, young ladies
of Kansas City! used to dance. I've
danced many night with the girls of
my town. Hear me. If was fair
average dancing man, and l think l
was, then no pure girl can go out on the
floor and dance another set. A voice,
'Hurrah!] Young woman, if you could
but follow the young man, after he has
seen you home, to some bar room or
club and hear the discussion of your
form and person and your virtue itself
you'd never lose your respect and go
on ball room floor. Sensation. The
dudes get mad at me in some places
and talk about wanting to slap my
jaws. Laughter.] But I say, to their
credit, they know better than to slap.
Pm not afraid to drop down into a
hundred acres of dudes and not thing
to fight with and all of them armed
with siX-shooters. Laughter.
"The tendency of the nineteenth
century is to dudeism. You dress a
young buck out, part his hair in the
middle, put on an eyeglass, give him
pants which looks as though his legs
had been melted and poured into 'em,
put on toothpick shoes, and every girl
in the town admires him. Prolonged
merriment.] God help you girls, I'd
rather see my daughter dead tonight
than sitting in a parlor talking to a
dude. Applause The good bishop of
New York says the confessional shows
that nineteen out of twenty girls meet
their downfall in the ball room.
SIN all my observation l never knew
a poor ruined woman who did not go to
ruin through the ball room and the
has lost her character has lost all, but
the boy is lionized by society. If there's
one deeper, blacker hell than another
it's for that man who crushes purity
and virture under the unhallowed feet.
| [Applause. The only thing in the
world which deserves a double-bar-
relied shotgun and a load of buckshot
! in such man. y 81
ga round dance is an ante-room to
damnation. 1 never want to see the
arm of lecherous man around the
waist of my wife or daughter. II
Iape no man. Til be myself, be true
to myself, and true to truth. All want
to do is to stand on the barrel, knock
the bung out, and let nature cut
her capers. Applause and laughter.
l may be an idiot and fool, but if I'm
not an idiot and fool, you'd better
think of these things. ."-RdnSds City
| Times.