Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-08
SAN JONES DENOUNCEs DANCING,
The Road to Ruin Through the Ball Room,
Tho Dudes Hstc Him.
Eanaas Citv Ttn,na

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"Listen: When that girl began To
giody Whirl OF the dance in the ballroom
lnat was the time to get scared. WheI
you found your boy spendicg more none,
shocked. o.
"Sow Cards and reap gamblers. kno7
am called transcendentalist and
farltan, put God save my family frou
cards and profanity, and whisky arc
dances, and let the world call me what i
will.
"Sow psrlor dances and reap ball
rooms Sow bathrooms and reap round
dances. Sow round dances and reap
dudes and dudines. Sow dudes and du-
Dimes and reap half 8 thimblefnl Of
calves'foot jelly. FApplause and laugh
ter renewed again and again. 1 wish
you wouldn't laugh any more tonight for
l never felt so solemn in my life. For
Gods sake hear me with q solemnity and
rsrnestness worthy Of the cause. But
you say say so many funny things. II
you only knew how many 1 have to keep
oack you would blame me for the few
which crop out.
"Hear me, boys, girls, young ladies' Of
kansas Cityi used 10 dance. I've
danced many a night with the girls of nv
town. Hear me. II was fair average
dancing msE-and I think 1 Was-then
no pure girl can go out on the floor and
dance another set. a voice, "Hur-
rah!"J Young woman, il you could but
follow the young man, after he has seen
you home, TO some bar-room or club, and
h.sr the discussion of your form or your
virtue Itself, you'd never lose your
respect and 60 on 8 ballroom floor,
LSensation The dudes get mad at me
Ia some pisces and talk about wanting to.
slap my Jaws. Laughter. But 1 san,
TO their credit, they know better than tol
slap. I'm not afraid to drop down into
s hundred acres OF dudes and not a thing
to light with and all eli them armed with
SIX shooters. Laughter.
zine tendency OF the ninteenth cen.
tury Is to dudeism. You dress q young
BUCK out, part his hair in the MIDDLE, mi
on sR eye-glass,glve him pants which look
as though his legs had been melted and
poured into 'em, put on toothpick shoes,
snd every girl in town admires hiu.
tprolopged merriment.] God help you,
girls; I'd rather see my daughter dead
Tonight than sitting in parlor talking
50 dude. Applause. The good |
Bishop OF York says the confessional |
shows thst nineteen out of twenty girls |
meet their downfall In ball room.
"ln sli my observation I never knew |
poor, ruined woman who did not go to
ruin through the ball room or the thea.
ter. A woman who has lost her
character has lost all, but the boy is lion
lied by society. II there's one deeper,
olacker hell than another, IT'S for the
nan who brushes purity and virtue under
bis urhallowed feet. Applsuse The
only thing in the world which deserves a
shotgun and ; load of
ouckshot is such man.
ga round dance is an ante-room te
1smnation. never want to see the arm
u lecherous man around the waist of
NJ wife or daughter ape no
nan. I'll De myself, be true to myself,
md true to truth. An / want to 60 is
Itand on the barrel, knock the bung out
mo let nature cut her capers. rApplause
md laughter may be an Idiot and a
DOL, nut II I'm not an idiot and fool
ou'd better think CT these things"