Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-01-28
Dancing Again.

Dear Editor Please allow me to add
my mite to the argument against dancing.
| believe Reader" is right in saying there
Is an Inconsistency In a circle Of Kings
Daughters furnishing supper for a mas
querade ball" He asks II one would ex-
pect to meet card players and bsll-goers at
a meeting in His name. Perhaps we may
meet them there, but we are not obliged to
link hands and arms with them there
They may be good in many ways, but in
these two points they fail. and we think
they might dnd better work to do "In His
Name"
In the AMERICAN of the cath Of Decem-
Der, "A Kings Daughter" says she prays
as she works. should like to ask her If
she prays while dancing, or if she has ever
known sacred prayer to be set to ball
room music Perhaps they may be for
they play waltzes at all graduation exer-
cises, and should almost as soon think Of
seeing the minister come waltzing up the
aisle into his pulpit. as to see him sanction
the use of such music at so solemn an oc-
casion as graduation. do not pretend
to say that you are all wrong, but say
these things are not in accordance with my
ideas Of the fitness of things
In our last weeks paper, Benz. Bios
som says: "Show me one clean ball" |
believe with him there are none The
worst element In any community Is always
found at public ball, They may be we'll
dressed, may have manners polished and
pleasing, but there are those there that
Kings Daughter or any other pure daugh-
ter should not come in close contact with.
"A Kings Daughter" says we are nervous
and oyerworked; so we are,-but say for
healthful rest, in lieu of dancing, take a
row or play lawn tennis or ball, or go and
sit on stump, and listen to the singing Of
the birds. They are more truly Gods crea-
lures than We, and | never knew one Of
them to sing dancing tune II the sea-
son does not admit of these recreations,
get a good hand-sled and have a slide
There are thousands of ways to inyigor-
ate the body and rest the brain
"A Kings Daughter" says that many
church members dance and play cards;
perhaps, but does she not know, too, that
church members sometimes rob, and steal,
and even murder: Because man has put
on the robes of the righteous, does he re-
main pure after he has done unclean
things? Yes, the Bible says, "a time to
dance. but it soon adds, for all these
things God will bring thee into judgment"
will ask "A Kings Daughter" to read a
few passages from Washington Irving
In poem headed From the Mill Of Pin
dar Cockloft. Esq" he says:
scare from the nursery freed, our gentle fair
Are yielded to the dancing master care.
4 nd ere the heal one mite OF sense can gain
Are introduced mid foys frippery train
Look It all over for yourself. please, and II
you can read his notes by William Wizard,
Esq, In regard 70 waltzing, and not be for
ever cured of that practice, then | fear
you are incurable, and | will only add,
please read the first verse of the tenth
chapter Of Ecclesiastes and beware of "a
little folly" | would like to saw more,
but my letter has already filed more of the
space of this paper than could reasonably
be expected to be allowed to
ONE LITTLE WOMAN