Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-07-17
Respectable Dances vs..
the Loud Variety

My young friends, Parsons ant
Brown, take up a good deal of space Il
expose themselves and to let me anC
the public know the kind and quality
of dances they go to visit. Boys, youl
letter only confirms me in my BELIEF
about the training of girls and boyl
aud sustains the argument I've ad.
vanced all along, that parents should
provide the social recreations for their
children and not allow them to slip of
and find their amusements at places,
such as You describe, places SO low
down and dirty that you both declare
you wouldn't want your sister to Wis
it.
Well, boys, an honest confession is
good for the soul and as such I'll let
you down easy. All object to IN your
letter is you did your best to misrepre-
sent me and make it appear endorsed
and advocated the kind of dances you
picture when you know better. Then,
again, you spoilt yourselves in my es-
timation by trying to make it appear
you were mighty good friends Of mine.
Who believes that Friends don't
write long articles misrepresenting a
man seeking to improve and provide a
better grade of social recreations than
is'on tap. If you call that friendship
l don't wish any more of that kind.
TIL try and not load myself down
with such friends. So far as first
class, social dances are concerned, en-
gagged in by tirst-class, moral people,
you boys have as much idea of them
as hog for you never were at one
and never will be unless you quit Wis
iting the kind you do. am sick and
tired of the many falsehoods told re-
garding music and dancing. Even a
preacher came to this town once and
said my lady would dance. OF course
he lied. Scores of ladies dance, but
they don't go to such dances as you
boys go, and they don't allow their
children to go to such.
| do not propose to impeach the
character and reputation of as uiee
and genteel people as live because
lot of riff-raffs and rakes indulge
themselves in dancing. These wretch
es would corrupt anything under heav-
EN- and bring reproach on it if they
could. Genteel people have cut all
such characters out of their socials
and won't allow them to prey on their
generosity. Nothing is nicer, cleaner
and more attractive than nice gepte Ell
dancing by nice people. Music and
dancing in themselves are all right, bat
like many other things, have been a.
bused until ladies don't care to engage
In the mixed multitude. These vile
and pernicious characters that infest
the country have destroyed about all
the social recreations our young peo-
Pile have. We can hardly have a pic
mic worth the name for them. Like
a pack of hungry bounds they will go
for miles to gobble up all some good,
big hearted woman had cooked, and
We heard THESE ladies say they have
been pushed away from their own
spread and never got a taste of what
they cooked
Dancing is not the only thing these
wretches have abused, but / fear they
will destroy our singing convention.
People who sing all day must eat, and
If everybody would bring ont baskets
and sponges would stay at home our
aides would get to enjoy some Of their
,wn cooking, 1t is not the cream Of
society that destroys social recreations
out the scum of it. hope we'll have
10 sneh ON Hobbs Hill the next Fifth
sunday in August. Don't drive our
inging classes into obscurity by inn
,osing on them. It's good, healthy
recreation of old and young and let's
reat them right and the big-hearted
aides who prepare baskets.
There Is good aud bad side to al
most everything. favor cultivating
he good and destroying the bad.
uhAA NV ShoA 50 Jou, poySs Wlbu VIII
ully misconstruing my letters. for ]
ometimes am not specific enough to
make myself plain, but guess l am
n this letter, for | don't fear any
oise whatever on the subject. What ]
title social recreations the young peo-
lie have left should d be protected and
am one old fellow that will help do
t. Boys, don't judge other women
y the demi mondes or red-light gang.
not long ago said such dances were
ngodly and SO they are. II dancing
ad been the downfall of women how
ONES it so few fell in the COS and
D's when dancing was as common as
ig tracts in a hog pen full of pigs:
Is it dancing that is mining so
lany Low in all walks of life7 I be-
eve our coats of social recreations
re TOO tight and our young people are
enied what the young folks of my ,
ay had liberty to enjoy. Something {
rong or else this hubbub about white