Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-03-05

blood, of the 10th century. They mus
, have something that will chase hur
dies through their veins. There il
. nothing SO insipid for the devotees o
the waltz as to dance a quadrille.
j | remember years ago my wife anl
, | went out to Kansas to see my m,,Lu-,
ana We went out Into the coantry t,
attend a Fourth of July celebration
They had spread-eagle oratory ant
red lemonade aud the young fellow.
had hand-painted neckties that COS
about fifteen cents, and little blue
sfyhed maidens fed them gumdrop.
and candy hearts with reading or
them. They would spend as much al
thirty cents on them.
i On the platform they were getting
ready for the quadrille. A great big
trombone necked fellow was the callel
Tor the dance. 1t was rough Job
had just as soon be a chambermaiG
in livery stable He spit tobacco
Juice enough-to drown g jackrabbit
He got into chair and resigned his
old three-stringed fiddle and said
Salute your partner, forward and
back; everybody swing
"A great big strapping country fell
low had a fat voluptuous country girl
for partner, and he threw his arms
arouEd her and lifted her feet right
off the floor, and shot her heels righ.
at my head.
| 1 believe that most of the girls sold
as white slaves are enlisted from the
bathrooms. The dance is the rotten
est, most hellish. vice. producing in
stitution that ever wriggled from the
| depths of perdition.
Certainly. believe in amusements,
but l believe they should be recreat.ve
| and not destructive.
GOD FoRBIDS IT.
The church of God forbids it. The
greatest and the most spiritual
churches forbid it and are against it
Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregation
al, the United Brethren and the Chris
tians are all against it.
The Methodist Church was raised
up for the very purpose of discount
ing the dance in the church.
God called Wesley and Whitfield
to purify the Episcopal Church. and
that movement which chrystalized IN
the Methodist Church was the rebuke
which God gave.
I know that there are some churches
that tolerate it-they don't encourage
it-and any church that encourages it
is too low down to deserve the name
of church.
L will give you a quotation from a
letter from the Bishops and Arch
bishops OF the Catholic Church which
says :
n nnnnontInn nnnSIdnr III
our duty to warn our members against
this amusement, which may become
to them an occasion of sin, especial,
the fashionable dance. which is dis
gushing and revolving and democrat
izing.
The enormities of the theatre and
the dauce would not be tolerated an
other minute if the mothers would
only set their faces against them
Bishop Vincennes quotes from his
records that the waltz would not b.
tolerated if Christian mothers would
only set their faces against it and re-
move their daughters from this con-
tamination.
Alas that women protesting t.
follow Christ should cot rally for the
honor of our daughters and drive
these thugs from society.
The trouble is now the Church OF
God has become the clearing house
for the world l have as good RICH
to expect good of you as | have Of
my wife and she has of me.
The dancing church member never
was soul-winner. The dance is sim
ply hugging match set to music.
DANCE IS IMMORAL.
The dance is immoral. Every man
and woman carries a breast full Of
passions, the same as are possessed
by the bad, and those passions be-
come finder box to consume morals
whenever brought iuto contact with
the temptress. The dance is conduc-
tive to immortality. In the dance and
on the ballroom floor you allow lib
critics to men that you never allow
them elsewhere. You grant them lib
critics on the ballroom floor that if a
man other than YOUR husband woulo
attempt in your home and your hus-
band would find you at it, he would
have no trouble ia securing divorce,
aid If he shot the man no jury in the
world would convict him for it.
Doesn't the swing of the dance
around the corners throw men and
women ia positions that are not toler-
ated elsewhere.
Fathers and brothers-you don't
seem to realize when your daughters
and sisters go to these dances they
meet strange men and associate with
older women and learn to smoke and
drink and you can bet that when d
girl gets so low that she will smoke
and drink she is on the tobog gar
slide and going to hell fast. 1t does
no harm to keep your daughter away
from dances. She runs big risk 10
going. In Gods name, play the safe
side.
where do 20 find your most &C.
complished dancers In the brothels
j The girls in these places do not come
from the poorer classes-not by long
shot. They are girls in many in
| stances from the upper crust of Sc
ciety. Girls who have taken dancing
lessons.
CALLS IT HELLISH
The dance Is the hotbed of immor-
| atty and vice, and | de1ounce it as
the rottenest, most hellsh vice-pro
ducing institution that ever wriggled
from the depths of perdition. 1t is mi
innocent amusement. 1t is the wors,
amusement. 1t has caused the down.
fall of more girls than anything else.
Six saloons do not do as much to r,n
the morals of girls as one dancing
school And this municipal dance
hall proposition is ali rot.
oh. but you say 4 go to the pri
vate dances. don't 60 to the slums
or free-for-alls The slums and free.
for alls have you beat mile WHY I?
because they wear more clothes than
lyou do.
4 The Chief of Police in New York
tells me that three. fourths of the fall
len women in that city went wrong
first through the dances. There are
500, 600 fallen women in the United
States, and to think that 100000 81
! those lest their virtue through the
! dance hall.