The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-29
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II Silver Coinage Is Rank Dishonesty, How
Shall We Characterize Dancing In the

II silver Coinage Is Rank Dishonesty. How
Shall We Characterize Dancing In the
Nude:
Staid old New York has been shaken
by a dreadful scandal. 1t was SO awful
that all the fashionable and many of
the questionable preachers of Gotham
rallied against it from their pulpits.
The origin of all this horror and flood
Of anathemas dates back to the begin
ming of the present month. One of
New York's 400, the grandson of Amer
ica's greatest circus man, a rich young
bachelor, Herbert Baraum Seeley by
name, gave stag dinner to friends of
his at q swell restaurant. Between
courses they were entertained with
songs. dances and ''other turns" as the
play-bill phrase has it. These were con-
tributed by female stars of the vaude-
vile stage and some of the features were
of a character which the law forbids to
be exhibited in regular stage perform
ances. A relative of one of the per-
formers, who had been booked to do a
''couchee-couchee" dance or some equal
ly naughty terpsichorean tortuosity,
informed the police of the forbidden
fruit that was to be served with the
menu. The minions of the law raided
the dining hall when the fun grew fast
and furious and in this way this latest
diversion of the male contingent OF
New York's 400 got into the newspapers
and subsequently drew down pulpit
condemnation. Many of the preachers
compared the social rottenness exposed
to Inequality of morals which prevailed
in Babylon ere destruction overlook
that luxurious city, and to the practices
among the rich classes of Rome which
led to the degradation and demolition
of that once mighty empire. The new
species of entertainment has so develop
ments show, been prevalent among
this class of New York's giddy
and wealthy young men for
long time and many theatrical
and semi-theatrical agents have been
making money by securing attractions
to give the fad a spice of novelty and
variety. The ulcer of civilization has
been laid bare right in the neighbor-
hood of several newspaper offices. from
which have been issued so many fulmi-
nations against the sinful ''repudia-
tionists and anarchists of the west and
days ago, expended nearly column of
editorial laudation over Henry Cabot
Lodges collection of figures showing
that all the wealthy states and cities
and all those in which the ratio of illit-
eracy was smallest voted for the ticket
that represented LAW, order and mo-
rality." Those states and cities that
were carried for Bryan were represent
ed as poor in wealth and lacking in
education.
Of course it is little too sweeping
to say that the rich and idle young
men of other eastern cities are as cor
rupt and as prone to debasing pleasures
as the preachers and papers of New
York have shown many of that class in
that wicked town to be, but there is
reasonable danger that the bad exam
pie may spread unless the ministers of
the gospel and the newspapers, their
allies, pour out their warnings and de-
nunciations by way of preventive
measures.
ern states may be more illiterate and
less wealthy than they are in New
York and some other eastern cities,
and while these disadvantages are not
to their liking, they are content to re-
main SO if the possession of much book
learning and abundance of money
carry as an inevitable sequence the
condition that their giddy youths and
gay old bachelors shall give dinners
with 'couchee-couchee" dances sand
wiched between the courses.-Kansas
City Times.