Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-08
SUNDAYS IDENTIFICATION OF
SOCIETY'S ADJUSTMENTS LEADS
154 TOABANDON The PLEASURES

ing straight. but they came to a cor
ner and around went the carriage Gu
two wheels The occupants We're
thrown out and struck the pavement
tar
She struck the curpstone and was
knocked senseless and one young man
was killed
enc was in comatose state for four
hours. and three physicians worked
over her. At last she opened her eyes
and said:
MY God! Save me for my baby's
sake. and ] will never dance again as
long as / live
Say, if God Almighty gives YOU a
rap on the back of the head. and
shakes the shroud over your old car
csss. and telephones for the UNDER
taker to come and MEASURE you for
your coffin, you will see, some harm in
1t mighty quick.
Whine around then. but you can't
work your shell games on God
immoral.
1t is unspiritual and that is not all.
1t is immoral
Every good man and woman carries
in his or her breast passions tho same
as bad men and women carry. ana
thus your breast becomes a finder box
ana you ought to be careful where you
so and what you do lest you ignite it
and there be an exD.osion and wreck
YOU of your purity, and manhood and
womanhood
The dance is the dry rot of society.
| say it is immoral
A society woman said that in tho
ball room men took ..berties with her
that they would not dare take any
place else. or under any other circum-
stances.
Certainly! Perhaps the parties which
you have attended have been free from
immoral tendencies which have char
acterized others.
You SOW and reap
Does not the swinging of the cor
ners in the square dance bring the
bodies of the partners into position
that would not be tolerated in decent
society or anywhere else. or under
any other circumstances Would it not
give scriptural ground for divorce:
Another Mans Wife.
Surprising that you go to a dance
tonight and then tomorrow you go
around to some mans house when he
is not there, that you might effective
ly impress upon his wife the dance
and it's necessary attendants and re-
quisites. You intend TO give instruc-
ton, and you go in perfect innocence.
You assume. the same position and
attitude with your arms about her that
YOU would take on the ball room floor.
The husband comes in the back door
and sees you there with your arms
about his wife, and Bang! bang! goes
the revolver. and YOU fail dead
You could not find a jury OF married
men on Gods dirt chat would stick
him.
l WOULD have Just one vote-and il
would be Skidoo
Man Admits 1t.
You cannot get around the cireum-
stances. Is not that true about the
position :? Any man knows it is. 1t does
not do airy harm to keep away and it
may run your daughter to let her 60
Your Own Wife.
Do you go with your wife to the
dance? You don't dance, and she is
nend. You stand and watch man after
man as he claims her hand and puts
his name on her list. Perhaps that fell
low was her lover ana You won her.
Yes! and her hand--and you stand
there and watch your wife folded in
brace. their bodies swaying one
against the other. tn air limbs twining
and INTERVIEWING, her head resting on
his breast, they breathe the vitisted
air beneath the glfttering candelabra,
and the spell OF the music. and you
stand there and tell me that there is
no harm in it,
bucks hair that can wrap his arms
about my wife.
Do You See This?
Are you father: Ale you a broth
er? Do you accompany you daughter
or your sister to the pail room and sec
young fellows come up to her-lecher-
~ty ,,l- .t-t,, :, az
your daughter or sister for a dance
young bucks that YOU know live in
sin young fellows whose names are
AS common upon the lips of the pros
titute as upon the lips OF your daush-
ter Two or three nights in company
with her at some ball, or theater party
and two Or three nights in the arms
of some prostitute.
You stand there and see young fell
lows come up and waltz with your
daughter and tell me that there is no
harm in it. You are too low down
for me. will pass you UP as quick as
the pay car would a nobo.
Are you q mother! And do sou
chaperone your daughter and groom
her. and YOU shove her in front of
every manageable buck and YOU ac-
company her to the bali room and you
stand there ard look at her with your
head cooked on one SIDE, and see a
young fellow come up and wrap his
arms around your daughter. and tell
me that there is no narm in it?
God pity YOU.
Positions Charged.
But" said a woman. you are too
severe in Your structures regarding
the dance. The positions have changed
since YOU danced"
Yes; 1 read that rhey had | read
tho other day report that said. "Thc
devotee of the waltz ought 20 be sat-
isfied with the latest position entitled
The Dream which brings the bodies
In such close contact that a case knife
could not pass between Them
When danced on the puncheon floor
in the log cabin on the frontier in Iowa
We used to be able 10 get stick Of
cord wood between them, but now
you can't get piec1 of tissue paper
between them
Sit il Out.
read tie other day that sitting
out waltz is going to be fash Fable
from now on. The only. difference is
that you will sit it out instead of dance
It. A young man and a girl will sit on
a sofa. and he will put his right arm
about her. and her left hand in his,