Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-03-02
sam Jones DenOunccs Dancing.

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 | am
called a transcendentalist and called
a Puritan, but God save my family
from cards and profanity, and whis-
KEY and dancing, and let the world
call me what it will. Sow parlor dances
and reap bathrooms; SOW bathrooms
and reap round dances; SOW round
dances and reap dudes and dudines;
sow dudes and dudines and reap
half a thimbleful Of calves foot jelly.
Applause and laughter, renewed
again and again. | wish you wouldn't
laugh any more tonight, for | never
felt so solemn in all my life. For Gods
sake hear me with solemnity and
earnestness worthy of the cause. But
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.
Hear me, boys, girls, young ladies,
Of Kansas City! | used to dance, I've
danced many n night with the girls of
my town. Hear me. II | was fair
average dancing man, and | think i
was then, no pure girl can go out on
the floor and dance another set. a
voice, "HurrahWl Young woman, If
you could but follow the young man,
after he had seen you home, TO some
bar-room or club, and hear the discus
sion Of your form and person and
your virtue itself, you'd never lose
your respect and go on ballroom
floor. [Sensation.l The dudes get
mad at me in some places, and talk
about wanting to slap my jaws.
Laughter But say 10 their credit,
they know better than TO slap. I'm
not afraid to drop down into hun
dred acres OF dudes and not n thing 10
fight and all Of them armed with six
shooters. Laughter
The tendency of the 10th century
is to dudeism. You press a young
buck out, part his hair in the middle,
put on an eyeglass, give him pants
which look as though his legs had
been melted and poured into them,
and every girl in the town admires
him. prolonged merriment.l God
help you, girls I'd rather see my
daughter dead tonight than sitting
in a parlor talking TO dude. ZAP
plause. The good Bishop Of New
York says the confessional shows that
nineteen out of twenty girls meet
their downfall in the ballroom.
I'm all my observation ! never
knew poor. ruined woman who did
not go TO ruin through the ballroom
and the theatre. A woman
who has lost her character has lost
all, but the boy is lionized by society.
II there's one deeper, blncker hell
than another it's for that man who
crushes virtue and purity under his
unhallowed feet. [Applause.l The
only thing in the world which deserves
a double-barrelled shotgun and load
of buck-shot is man.
"A round dance Is an ante,rOom TO
damnation. never want 10 see the
arm of a lecherous man around the
waist Of my wife or daughter.
/ ape no man: Ill be myself, be true
to myself, and true TO truth. All j
want to do is to stand on the barrel,
knock the bung out, and let nature
cut her capers. Applauss and laugh
ter / may be an idiot and fool,
but II I'm not an idiot and fool,
you'd better think Of these things
Kausds Clv Times.