The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-05
II Saturday
Sermon.

Nature dances in sunbeam and
shadow, wave and rlvulet, leaf ana
flower. Animal life capers, gam
bols and dances to and fro with
no definite object but happiness,
There have been religious, mill
tary and festal dances which have
been healthful to the body, pleas
ant to the eye and harmless to
the soul. Homer says that Mer-
ion was distinguished by his dane
ing. Hes.od declared that the
gods had bestowed fortitude on
some men and on others a dispo-
sition for dancing. Socrates, the
wisest man, not only admired
dancing, but learned to dance
when he was an old man.
The old Baccnanaiian dance
was more intoxicating than wine
there was & confusion Of sexes;
their ivy garlands were emblems
Of clinging and cleaYing; they i'm.
itated the satyIs and were attend
ed by goats.
The modern dummy hug" is the
Dionysian orgy, or ancient can
can, portrayed on old bas-rellefs.
1t was conducted in the depths of
lonely forest, where Bacchus, the
Savior Of Sensuousness, led the
triumphal march with wild aban-
don, while fauns, satyrS and bac-
chantes listened to music soft and
sweet that burned into their very
souls, keeping time with lewd ges-
ture and loathsome grace.
SO depraved was the dance in
Rome that The senate made de-
cree to eXpel all dancing and dan
GERS from the city.
The Church Fathers said, CAS-
many passes as a man makes in
dancing, so many passes doth h.
make to hell"
"Everybody's dom it," may he
applied to dancing,
| have seen the dances of the
Old World and the Orient, the
contortions of Egypt, the sugges-
ton of Naples, the excitement of
the "hula hula" in Hawaii, the
dance in Indian temples, but they
are all tame, modest or decent
compared with some of these
rags" wherJ the "G"string of
modesty is all that is left of Vir-
tues robe.
rags" are as wild as Tam
O'Shanter saw when witches old
and young reeled fast and furious
until they sweat and threw off
their clothes, and tripped in their
"sarks" while the Devil played the
music and the dead in their collins
held light in their cold hands.
Erotic feeling has character
lied many dances ancient and mod
ern, while the "Grizzly Bear" and
the "Tango" of today would MAKE
the Devil blush ard hesitate to in
troduce them into hell.
Saloma danced Johns head off,
and many have gone to their death
since. There was a time when
statues were made of graceful
dancers--today there is a demand
for statutes against disgracefuI
dancing
The next thing in order is the
naked dance proposed by Plato III
his Ideal Republic.
Children are post-graduates in
rag-tlme tunes and dances before
tbo o o"if d. b., =" ~ III" Vi repeat
w Tb l-'+ . y > l." 81 L.. ..-.-,
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erateJ fron, do "e G",'Ie II i'a 5; uegen-
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ro% S,, us'.> anJ ''", {i 10 SenSuouS
a ~6 tLu'nI' anu olVell gaze with
tO, ILL IL ;, !,
waist T W. cIie uai,cG' IiiougI Ihe
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lmoppeui Ile partner rhalt-puIled
guy Oh u, t'1 e,nH, Ill., ,
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bay bay t %pPj i:;
49, "n oIo ,aG SiiS9 9 ;, waist or down
T ThT siU%i'i Issue sue, : ,,.n :,
b. i' tn;'4I lance OF Death should
" PAINTED g oyer the entrance Of
1I,@tS o u"lICt-nal'S; me LurEsE
~ iio' l., ousn1 70 Do IIeleSatGq TO-
tne paIllyafu, Ihe Bunny rug
G " tnS alji1lIa-paIch' the GRAB
. GIaMi uI n ihe waves, and the
l Hll"@'y Dear TO the tail TIM
oe rs, d,
+hat ne H., rag dance Is . DeHlah
LA Lila' mas Snorh many samson o.
MS pllSSlcAi' mental and spiritual
sCIengLn, put out ms eyes, and
maze nm grind IN the mlIl-nrIson
Vi IeSpalf'
r Hoilan Ill the dance has fallen
luflnSSJ from the gates OF haven