The Clifton clarion., 1888-02-15
BANGING.
SnIs; 50nes Pays tSis Respects to
 Dnie~ and EDat.:nes.

Dnde~ and EDu..:nes.
 ''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 money than he ought, that was the time to get shocked.
 ''Sow cards and reap gamblers. I know I am called transcendent- alist and called a Purital, but God save my family from cards and profanity, and whisky and dances, and let the world call mo what 1t 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. I wish you wouldn't laugh any more tonight, for I never felt so solemn in my life. For Gods sake hear me with a solemnity and earnestness worthy of the cause. But you say I 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! I used to dance. I've danced many a night with the girls of my town. Hear me. If l was a fair average danc- ing man, and I thlnk 1 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 has seen you home, to some bar-room or club, and hear the discussion of your form or person and your virtue itself, you'd never lose your respect and go on a ballroom floor. Sensa- tion. The dudes get mad at me in some places and talk about wanting to slap my jaws Laugh ter. But 1 say, to their credit, they know better than to slap. Pm not afraid to drop down into a hundred acres of dudes and not a 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 eye-glass, give him pants which looked as though his legs had been melted and poured into lem, put on tooth pick shoes, 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 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 a ballroom.
 In all my observation 1 never knew a poor, ruined woman who did not go to ruin through the ballroom and the theater. * * * 4 woman who has lost her char acter has lost all, but the boy is lionized by society. If there's one deeper, blacker hell than another, it's for the man who crushes pur- ity and virtue under his unhal- lowed feet. Applause. The only thing in the world which deserves a double barreled shotgun and a load of buckshot IS such man. E' F'
 "A round dance is an ante-room to damnation. I never want to see the arm of a lecherous man around the waist of my wife or daughter. s' i' * l ape no man. I'll be myself, be true to myself, ] and true to truth. All I want to do is to stand on the barrel, knock | the bung out and let nature cut her capers. Applause and laugh | ter. 1 may be an idiot and a fool, but if Pm not an idiot and a fool, you'd better think of these things."-Kansas City Times. l