The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-01-05
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fctions is marvellous. Take New Years
Day, for instance. How confidently we
imagine ourselves to have just compile,
ted one year and begun another. Lo,
we have but to migrate to China and,
Presto! We haven't. Here are both
fact and fiction. Our imagination is the
sole reality aud the new year pure hum
buga The LIST OF January is no more the
first day of the year than is any other of
the 800 which complete its round. The
truth is, every day ends II year ami
begins another. The truth is, again,
every year is a circle which has neither
beginning nor end. Thus the most per-
feet Of forms is a combination OF CONTRA
dictories. So. too, is human life. 1t is
such a combination OF contradIctories
hat we are often puzzled beyond meas
ure to know how best to deal with it.
The South Sea islander imagines that
water can never become solid. His eli
mate Is too foggy. He should migrate.
A winter in Madison would dispel the
illusion. And, recently, we have heard
from a learned divine who thus gives
expression to a more common fiction
still. "Ths fact" says he, remains,
that unless there be the interuiifigling
OF opposite sexes in the. dance it pres
emily loses It's subtle charms. 1t is
simply incredible that a body'of either
men or wOmcn should dance all night
till broad Daylight as is constantly
done when the dancing 10 promiscuous-
and If not, why not?" Why, bless, you,
Dr., its the climate, the atmosphere.
In this case the moral atmosphere chief
ly. You have but TO take up a claiti in
the newly coded lands Of our young
state, TO End yourself surrounded by a
people whose main diversion il TO do
that very thing: With them, the met
and WOMEN would no more think Of
dancing together than they would eat
together, or do anything else by the
method of the intermingling OF opposite
saxes. The fact 10 the moral atmos-
phere is so low among the aborigines
that a wide separation OF the sexes is
needed as q moral safeguard. What all
people Of hat class need is a purer OH
mate in the domain Of morals. In pro-
portion al they move into it, the inter
mingaing OF opposite sexes Is found TO be
both subtle in its charms and salutaFy
in effect. The old record that, "Male
ind fsma'e created He them" 10 dlscov-
cred not TO have been a mistake. The
one sex is recognized as the true compile
ment and helpmeet for the other. They
longer sit apart on opposite sides, even
in the house OF the Lord. The n is nj
longer simply the bread winner and the
other the bread baker. They learn to do
business ia common They no longer
disseciate for fear OF one another, but
associate as we'll in the lawful past,mes
as in the stsrner duties Of life.
Social gatherings composed exclu-
slvely of women, n exclusively OF men,"
are, for the most part, Indications that
the climate is not yet altogether what it
should be, not entirely salubrious. Such
gatherings will be seen 10 increase in
subtle charms AS the moral barometer
lowers, until you come again to the
home Of the savage where the separation
is ali but complete. Promiscuous inter
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1t belongs, however, to the transition
stage. The purer the atmosphere the
more select will be the company.
The good Doctor, u%nwittingly, we
hope, also imputes immortality to all who
enjoy dancing, when he hints that the
pleasure consists IN the opportunity Of
fered for improper thoughts and a~ctious,
and proposes a substitute school for
gracefnioess whereby he exposes his an
familiarity both with gymnastics and
the tripping or the light fantastic toe.
Why, "a between the circus AID the
ball roon,w while We insist on both being
kept under proper restraint, we much
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escorting a lady down TO dinner, ''thus
takes publicly such a liberty a under
other circumstances would be indignant
ly resented" He does what he would
not dream Of doing while they sit to-
geiher in the parlor. But they have
not suddenly become nndaiy familiar
the circumstances it 10 which have
changed add become decidedly "other.'
The climate q 70 speak, has becoms
more gsnfaa. and social custom locks
them arm in arm.
Probably o Of the most obstinate O
fctions TO be dispelIed only by the at
mosptere OF heavenly chimes 10 th'
notion that To resist the devil wfl
not him TO fee froui us, an,
that our only chance Of safety 10 j
rnn6.ne away from every place an,
thing where he has ever been known I
she's his horns; that the redemption &
the w.rId ID ! vain endeavor, and th
marcAi0g orders Tor the soldiers os Hi
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