The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-05-14
MRS. BORDEN'S DANCE


decadent society of New York in caustic criticism that
mighty interesting reading for instance the following
Just how exciting charity will ultimately become under the
agement OF New Yorks millionaire society would
rash to try predict Mrs Arthur terpsichorean
performance in behalf of the Manhattan Girls
viii naturally lead still interesting The
ship Of Bacchu which this discreet fasnatny
served will naturally be followed other charity by rites
in honor of Adon We expect the holy ceremonies
which ancenty performed by the worshppers
ASIA Minor renewed by the society of New York. and
doubtless the entire ritual will be publicly according the
primitive type of the cult The mind may stray farther in
ecstac anticipation of what elegant and highly society
leaders will do for the sake of charity Who say
gous sacrifices they viii not submit exalted purpose
Perhaps shall day them sitting in temple
OF Ishar the danes of ancient Babylon did holy
days. waiting Tor the men OF the city to along inspect the
and.ae their pick The subsequent performances at the
high altar while the priests reced appropriate prayers would
snguarly adapted to the tastes of New society
marvellous that they were not initiated long ago.
1t is exceeding satisfying to think of the influence
SoBurden Greek Pageant must have had the young
of the trade school, for whose benefit the refined exhibition
was held These girls naturally belong the lower classes They
look down. to like Mrs Burden examples be
initiated and doubtless before long they will be dancing the
chanaa in their Perhaps these cae harmones
and legs interviewer viii be taught in the
trade school, One imagine how profitable they
the souls of the and how much help dances
would be to them in earning their vngs The girls may not
nave the money TO buy appropriate costumes immediately Mrs
Burden did great DEAL to be sure but what there
of her habments expensive Leopard robes purple
MICS these days of high protection Even the gauy
silk stockings in which Mrs Burden daphanousy yelled her
chae legs must have been far beyond the of girl from
the enemen But if these young raise the money
buy Bacchc costumes, the of the moment they
get by and by There are ways by which girl always
money and Mrs Burdens performance aid of charity
eectuay taught the girls that these ways perfectly
If is right for this elegant dame exhibit
and through acviou dances before crowd why wrong
for shop girl to do the thing in variety show
place? 1t at all difficult uplifting
influence Mrs ScoBurden sefsacricng labors viii have on
the girls for whom she ped the light fantastic toe and dis
rObed her NenuSlike
Evidence of the putdy of what called high society in New
York and other eastern cities aecuuaes rather rapidly During
the winter constantly hearing of the fed plays which
they crowded the heaters Some of these dramas
specifically described in the American Magazine June and
certainly nothing to be in the vicious the
Sums For all that society women went to see them IN droye
stranger STILL they took their daughters along French peo
pie long been in the habit of witnessing vile plays but they
do their young girls them. There certain cynical
shameeness in the rancy of society morals in the which
hardly paraeed in the modern world One would have to
go back to the days of Nero find anything quite like
Scandalous the spectacle of these is it still more
p In their vain quest pleasure they work harder than the
kitchen maid her slender wage Stunning the natural obi
cations their hardened Shameless dead moral
after striving they have gained what they sought
Pleasure forever fees Them and their lives nothing but
weary round of disappointment and safety Worse than that
they are Outraged nature has visited them with the
av which awaits all useless things in this world and they has
extinction Like OF the body which IN the
of evolution have perform any function millionaire
society undergoing the natural 1t perishng while
still seems to survive, epusve instance of death in life The
made rage ard for pleasure than
fever which indicates the approach of dissolution AS ndivd
mails and as they doomed to extinction and their
will go the of nature to those who make
helpful to the world instead OF wasting It. Mrs
Bacchc may compared with the terrible commissions of
the diving sot in Assommoir the writing of moral
disease as shrinks from the chill touch of death.
The Oregonan out for free trade asserts the whole
protection system go and that tariff should be
levied pon articles of general that produced in this
country 1t would follow the English SYSTEM with heavy tax
oos and tobacco and tariff uxuries and then coffee
sugar etc. to raise revenue supplemented by income tax
which would make wealth of the land stand its share of the
governmental expense