The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-02-02
SAM JONES on DUDES.
The Southern Pyrotechnic Pulpit Orator
Gets In u Few LIcks.

Gets In n Few Licks.
Listen: 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 mon
ey than be ought, that was the time to
get shocked.
"Sow cards and reap gamblers. know
I'm 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 il
will.
Sow parlor dances and reap bathrooms
Sow bathrooms and reap round dances.
Sow round dances and reap dudes aud
dndines. Sow dudes and dudines and
reap half thimhleful of calves'-toot jelly.
(Applause and laughter renewed again
and again.) wish you wouldn't laugh
any more tonight, for never felt so SOL
emn in all my life. For Gods sake hear
me with a 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 night with the girls of my town
Hear me. If l was fair average dan
cling man, and think was, then no pure
girl eau 60 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 aud 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 say, to their credit,
they know better than to slap. I'm not
afraid to drop down INTO hundred acres
of dudes and not thing to fight with
and all of them armed with six shooters
! (Laughter.)
1.-THE tendency of the Nineteenth cen
| tuIy is to dudesm. You dress young
buck out, 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 tooth-pick
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 i'll u parlOr
talking to a dnde. (Applause.l The
good Bishop ofNew York says the confess.
ional shows that nineteen out of twenty
girls meet their downfall in the ballroom
"In all my observation | never knew
IA poor, ruined woman who did not go ia
ruin through the ballroom and theater.
A woman who has lost her char
acter has lost all, but the boy is lonized
by society. IT there's one deeper, black
er hell than another it's for the man who
brushes purity and virtue under his hal
lowed feet. (ApplauSe) the only thing
in the world which deserves a double.
barrel shotgun and IA load of buckshot is
such man. "A round dance ia
an ante-room to damnation. l never
want to see the arm of lecherous man
round the waist of my wife or daughter.
| ape 10 man. III be myself,
he 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 lie fool and an idiot, but if am
not fool and an idiot you'd better think
of these things"