The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-04
Contagionof Bad Manners Is
Network sCurse, Says Visitor

rush" out into the middle Of the room.
arrange their garments In a way that
proves they are unashamed Of the
duality Of their legs and seize their
partners. Their partners are fat, un-
wholesome men in business suits. And
they dance. 1t IL a dance which should
be danced only in the Moorish quarters
of Algiers by the unhappy Spanish
women who are locked up behind green
doors in the cafes smelling OF anisette
and opium. They undulate and reverse,
fold and unfold In the slow spirals of
the tango-to rise on furious beating
heels.
always tho fat unwholesome men
capering)
him: I'm heavens name. what Ia this?"
And he tells you with u proud smirk
that II Is a tango tea"
Now you will say there Is nothing un-
common about all this. It's done every
where. And that is quite true. They
dance the tango everywhere; and the
tango danced in Partisan drawing
room, with Its imprecise gestures. Its
feigned languors. its pretty recoils and
advances, Is a dance at once charming
complex and profound. II is different
thing when II is danced by the sallow
apaches in the "caboulots' near the
markets or in the dance halls in the
Palace Pigallc. And rs n different
thing-a fat, unwholesome, indecent
thng-in the tea rooms OF New York.
The apache of Paris is cowardly ant
vicious and graceful as a panther. HI
is murderer and thief. but his
amusements are curiously innocent
When he dances with his "mome" a
the Belle de Mutt he IL neither indecent
nor unclean. The New York bushes.
man at his tango tea is both. There !.
no use blinking the fact. To Ignore thu
! arrangement of things Is the courage
Gus privilege OF the idealist. not OF th'
common sense observer. In Paris ever
the rogues and murderers and had hus
bands take their public pleasures nicely
And it is fact that there Is more
public indecency in New York than II
any city west OF Suez. l have no de
sire to prove that statement. II would
be an occupation at once too dirty ant
| too sad. But II is true and the think
ing man who studies the public amuse
ments Of New York is dlsauieted by 6
iecadence so official, so regular, SO un
broken.
The stage is always a tolerably &C.
curatc barometer of popular morals
and the stage of New York has sunk
TO n level where indece. .cy souats a,
the side Of idiocy. That IL so eyiden,
,hat even the actors have begun IL
rcbaI Ru, tho most discourar inp thing
about 1, "a tina, over II has been thrown
n match wor,, cloak of hvpocrisv when
Paris saws. ct like wicked play.
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