Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-29
else. or under any circumstances,

I free from immoral tendencies which
have characterized others.
You SOW and you reap. You SOW the
country and you reap the town, and
you SOW Marshalltown, and you REAP
Chicago. You sow and reap whereve,
you go.
Does not the swinging of the corners
in the square dance bring the bodies
Of the patners into a position thai
would not be tolerated in decent So
ciety or anywhere else, or under any
other circumstances? Would it moi
give scriptural ground for divorce?
Another Mans Wife.
Supposing that you go to dance
tonight and then tomorrow you &C
around to some other mans house wher
he is not there, that you might effect
lively impress upon his wife the dance
and its necessary attendants and requi-
sites. You intend to give instruction
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 fall dead.
You could not find jury of married
men on Gods dirt that would stick
him.
would have just one vote-and it
would be Skiddoo.
Man Admits 1t.
You can not get around the circum-
stances. Is it not true about the po-
sition? Any man knows it is. 1T does
not do any harm to keep away, and it
may ruin your daughter to let her So
Your Own Wife.
| Do you go with your wife to the
dance? You don't dance, and she is
a fiend You stand there and watch
man after man as he claims her hand
and puts his name on her list. Perhaps
that fellow was her lover and you
won her Yes! and her hand-and
You stand there and watch your wife
folded in his long, voluptuous. sensual
embrace. their bodies swaying one
against the other, their limbs twining
and INTERVENING, her head resting on
his breast, they breathe the vitiated air
beneath the glittering candelabra, and
the spell of the music, and you stand
there and tell me that there is no harm
in 1t.
l want to see the color of some
bucks hair that can wrap his arms
about my wife.
Do You See This?
Are YOU a father? Are you brother
| Do you accompany your daughter or
J your sister to the ball room and see
young fellows come up to her-lecher-
Gus young bucks-asking for dance
young bucks that YOU know live in sin,
young fellows whose names are as
common upon the lips of the prostitute
as upon the lips of your daughter Two
or three nights in company with her at
some ball, or theater party, and two or
three nights in the arms of some pros
,itute
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. l will pass You up as quickly as
the pay car would hobo
Mother Do This.
Are You a mother? And do you
chaperone your daughter and groom
her and YOU shove her in front of ev-
cry manageable buck, and you ac-
company her to the ball room and YOU
stand there and 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 there is no harm in it?
| : You must be made out of Eastwood
or putty, or marble.
Positions Changed.
But said woman, YOU are too
severe in your structures regarding the
dance. The positions have changed
since YOU danced"
Yes; read that they had. l read
I the other day report that said: The
devotee OF the waltz ought to be sat
| listed with the latest position, entitled
The Dream which brings the bodies
in such close contact that case knife
could not pass between them.
When j danced on the puncheor
floor in the log cabin on the frontier il!
! Iowa we used to be able to get stick
YOU can't get a piece of tissue paper
/ between.
Sit 1t Out.
read the other day that sitting GU,
a waltz is going to be fashionable from
now on. The only difference is tina,
you will sit it out instead of dance it. A
young man and girl will sit on q
sofa, and he will put his right arr
about her and her left hand in his, ano
she rests her head upon his bosom anC
all that they have to do is just to sit
there and hug"
i tell YOU that there is some sense
in that have always considered it e
nuisance to gallop a mile just to get {
hug" or two. Most men don't care g
rap for the dance, it is the hug thai
they are after.
No Prayer Meeting Feelings.
want to tell you I don't believe thai
there are many people who can go or
the ball room floor and dance with &
pretty girl Rugged to his breast, ant
look upon her charms under the inhu.
ence Of fascinating music and then gt
out with prayer meeting feelings.
l will bet you, sir, if men who dance
would tell the truth, 80 out of 10t
would say: You are right, Bill; yo,
are the first fellow who ever had tn,
grit to tell it."
God don't want you to go around
with A decollete attire on; if he had h,
would have made the feathers grow
on you.
Dancing Master Quits.
Professor Faulkner, chairman Of TIL,
Dancing Masters Association on tn,
coast, who had six private dancin,
schools of his own and an income o
$1,000 month, was converted, ant
gave them I'm. and If thera r-as ~.