Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-17
sam Jones Denounce. Dancing.
The ROAD TO Ruin THROUGH THE BALL-KooH-THE
DUDES HATE HIN.

THE ROAD TO RUIN THROUGH THE BALL-Roon-rHE
DUDES HATE HIN.
From the Kansas City Times
''Llsten When that girl began the giddy whirl
Of the dance in the ballroom that was the time
70 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 N called transcendentaliSt and called a
Puritan, but God SAFE my family from cards and
profanity, and whisky and dances and let the
world call me what II 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 end
reap half thilnbleful Of calves-fOot ieIly lad
clause and laughter, renewed again ami again1 /
With you wouldn't laugh any more tonight, for
never felt so solemn In my life. For Gods sake
hear Inc with a sOlemnty and earnestness worthy
OF the cause. But you say ! say so many funny
things. IL 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! j u ei to dance. I've danced many a night
with the glTiS OF my town. Hear me. II was a
fair average dancing man, and think was then
no pure girl can so out on the floor and dance
other set. "A Voice, 'liurrah!1 Young woman, II
you could but follow toe young man, after he has
seen you home. TO some bar-room or club, and hear
the discussion OF your form and person aud your
virtue ITSELF you'd never lose your respect and go
on ballroom floor. tSensatiOn.l The dudes get
mad at me in some places, and talk about wanting
To slap my jaws [Laughter.l But say, 70 their
credit, they know better than TO slap. I'm not
afraid to drop down into hundred acres OF dudes
Win SiX-SnOoteTS. lLaughterl
zine tendency OF the nineteenth century is to
dGdelsin. You press a young buck out, part his
hair Ia the middle, put on an eyeglaSS, give him
pants which look as though his legs had been
melted and poured into EN-, put on the toOthpick
shoes, and every girl IN the town admires MIN.
prolonged merriment.l God help you. girls, I'd
rather see my daughter dead Tonight than sitting
In parlOr talking TO dude. IApplause.l The
good bishop OF New York says the confessional
shows that nineteen out OF twenty girls meet
their downfall In the ballroom.
IN all my observation / never knew poor,
ruined woman who did not go 10 ruin through the
ballroom and the theater. A woman who
has lost her character has lost all, but the boy is
lionized by society. II there's one deeper, backer
hell than another, it's for that man who brushes
virtue and purity under his unhalowed feet. Jap
plduse.l The only thing in the world which de-
serves a dOuDle-oarreled shotgun and load or
buckShOt Is such a man.
"A round dance Is an anterOOm to damnati0n- L
never want TO see the arm OF lecherouS man
around the waist OF my wife or daughter.
ape no man. I'll be myself, be true 10 myself,
and true 10 truth All l want 20 do is TO stand on
the barrel, knock the bung out, tnd let nature cut
her Capers- Applause and laughter.l | may be
an idiot and fool. but II I'm not an idiot and
fool you'd better think OF these things"