Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-01-27


/ THE ROAD TO RUIN THROUGH THE
BALL.ROOM-TIIE DUDES
HATE HIM.
"Msten When That girl began
/ the giddy whirl of the dance in the
ballroom 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 gam
blers. | know am called a trans
cendentalst and called Puritan,
but God save my family from cards
and profanity, and whlskey and
dances, and let the world call me
what it will. Sow parlor dances
and reap bathrooms SOW DALI
rooms and reap round dances; SOW
round dances and reap dudes and
dudines; SOW dudes and dudlnes
and reap half thimbleful OF calves
foot jelly. Applause 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 solemnily and eaInestness
worthy of the cause. Bat you say
| say so many funny things. If
YOU only knew how many have to
keep back you wouldn't blame me
for the few which creep out.
clear me, boys and girls. young
ladies of Kansas City ! l used to
dance. I've danced many a night
with the girls of my town. Hear
me. fl was a fair average dane.
ing man, and | think | was, then
no pure girl can 60 out on the floor
and dance another set. \ 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 dis
cusslon of yOur form and person
and your virtue itself, you'd never
lose your respect and 60 on ball
room floor. Sensation. The dudes
get mad at me in some places, and
talk about wanting to slap my jaws.
Laughter. But say tc their
credit, they know better than to
slap. I'm 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 press
young buck ont, part his hair in
the middle, put on an eye-glass,
give him pants which look as
though his legs had been melted
and poured into 'em, put on the
tooth.pick shoes, and every girl in
the town admires him. Prolonged
merriment. God help you, girls.
I'd rather see my daughter dead to
night than sitting IN parlor talk
ing to dude. Applause. The
good Bishop of New York says the
confessional shows that nineteen
out OF twenty girls meet their down
tall in the ballroom.
"In all my observations | never
knew a poor, ruined woman who
did not 90 to ruin through the ball
room and the theater. \
woman who has lost her character
has lost all, but the boy is lionlzed
by society. If there's one deeper,
blacker hell than another it's for
that man who crashes virtue and
purity under his unhalOwed feet.
Applause. The only thing in the
world which deserves a double.bar
relied shotgun and load of buck
shot is such a man.
"a round dance is an anteroom
to damnation. | never want to see
the arm of lecherous man around
the waiste of my wife or daughter.
Iape no man. I'll be my
self, 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. | may
be an idiot and a fool, but if Pm
not an idiot and a fool, you'd bet
ter think of these things."-Kansds
City Times.