Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-14
THE Ballroom the Moral
GRAVEYARD of the World"

| pour foul scorn the In high society
who ask
Am my sisters keeper" No, you are her muir
deress You contribute to her moral deinquencies you
champion the things by which she falls, You women
are like wolves A girl stubs her moral toe and you
rend her shreds
Men and women wanted something to make the
blood do hurdles and from the vest dens they dragged
the "Cubanola Glide the Mobile Buck" the
rotten ancestors OF the "Turkey-trot" "Bunny.hug"
kangaroo Wiggle" Kitchen Sink and others not
forgetting modern waltz steps But the tango" Is the
most rotten sinking licenous thing that ever wrig
ged of the pit of hell
Oh! shun the dance You would the pesthouse or
the oubonic plague It is the rottenest institution on
God Almighty's dirt
have more respect for the saloonkeeper than for
any sissy dancing master Why I'd rather be q
cham6ermaid in livery stable than caller at a
II is FOOLS business taking up dancing to make you
graceful ] would rather daughter of mine waddled
through ine ike hlppopotamus than be dancing
;, hear some OF you silly girls sneer-sissies with
freacn heels, painted eyebrows, gum-chewing fudge.
eating nonentities who can't make fapjack without
scattering the batter all over the kitchen
Thank God, there still a few old-fashoncd
mothers left but like the veterans Of the Civil War
they are becoming vanishing remnant
YES they are going going fast There still
lew od-fashioncd mothers left in the country places
nut VIC seem 10 search in vain for them our large
como TO mothers almost criminal they look on do.
meS,c duties as humilatine and. God beneath them
sider home duties degrading The old,fashioncd
mothers used to darn socks and mend pants They
ana were happy in their homes and their home duties
and went about their work singing They wouldn't
Know how to act in the company the new.fa ngled
mothers
These mothers who waists so low that they
cont seem 10 wear any; wear slit skirts and spas,
orcss hitting like an umbrella and have few.
u any. undcrclothcs and smoke cigarettes WHY
Inc oidiashioncd mother. such had
ior my mother found herself in company with them,
she wouldn't know how to stand such immodesty She
would be shocked and Mortified Who dares say they
were unhappy; they those oidfashioned mothers who
lo0R Joy I'D their homes and who not ashamed
that their husbands and their homes and their work
ana care Tor their husbands and their homes their
children gave them enough OF life"
DIVORCES with them we're unknown. practically
UNKNOWN lhey were joy to themselves, to their
husbands, to their families and 10 their God, these
ocaI Eood women Yet today women laugh at them
ana can them simple because they not crazy
clcty attending to somebody clscs business and
ncEectne their own and their homes. laugh them.
these new fdngle6 women. because their homes and
what was in them meant happiness to them
The oldfashioncd mother left behind her memories
10 blossom in the dust, but the newfangcd mother is
tic mother Of divorces domestic bitterness of toy.
rides and weckends
Vt hrouacs ones contempt to big man, man
horn for biz things. doing small, contemplate
things. There some things almost excuse
IN little. weak. puny. Wcazened-up man that would
be objectionable foI big We forgive Zac.
chcus FOR climbing tree order TO catch Il GLIMPSE
OF Jesus hut cannot forgive Saul for crawling into
hole and pulling the camp luggage in after him.
before NC get him out. now that we know where he
Is let me- refresh your memory {) do not like Saus
ancestry His father was man OF wealth and power
lie and hia son had no thought about things which
asses to think about the hope OF Israel and who