Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-06-01
lilly NnAY P.hTS RESPECTS
TO BANGING.
(New York World.)

lpuIiuuy W liic institution known as
"Tyc Dance"
t1hcse few remarks with Bill's COM
Dlments:
I'm with Ii Hung Chang, the
great Chinannan who said, after
looking at an American dance: why
don't they sit down to hugo"
81 want to see the color of the ,
bucks hair who can wrap his arms
around my wifel I'm going to mo-
nopolize all that hugging business,
myself, take it from mel"
"rakc it from me again, I'd con- /
slider it nuisance to gallon three
quarters of mile to be at hug
ging!
of had the power to make a law
for America, I'd have a law that no
boy or girls over twelve years of
age should dance until he or she was
marricd-and then they should dance !
with each other.
"Somc people may say: Mr.. Sun
day, YOU are too severe; we like
dancing for the exercise, the limo
cen pleasure it gives! All right.
Then you men dance with each other
and you women dance with each 9TH
err. You'll get all the exercise and
all he innocent amusement of the
dance that way. But if that system
was put into effect. bet the old dance
would shut up shop between New York
and San Francisco before the end of
he week."
Billy's sermon last night-2O, 600
heard 1T - was on ADJUSTMENTS"
He touched up the dance, the theatre
and card playing, but devoted most
of his attention to the terpsichorean
stuff. Continuing, as to the dance,
said among other things:
| ut will take your daughter when
she is Il rose-geranum of purity and
make her into a poppy-flower of lust
The Cubanola Glide and the Mobile
Buch were not bad enough, so they
had to invent the Bunny Hug and the
Puppy Snugglc and the kitchen sink
and hell only knows what!
And How DO You Like This?
Glow do you like it when you see
your wife i'm the embrace of Il man
who was once her lover?
"Most men don't care rap for n
dance, it is the hug they are after.
Thatll Civ your old rheumatic and
govt masters Il chance. \ fellow has
got to get powerfully old and de-
crepic when he doesn't enjoy hug.
I'll tell you that.
81 want to tell you | don't believe
that there are many people who can
20 OH the ballroom floor and dance
with pretty girl huggcd to his
breast and look upon her charms I'M
der the influence of fascinating mu-
sic and then go out with prayer meet
ing feelings. | will bet you, sir, if
men who dance would tell the truth
ninety out of one hundred will say:
-,,rl1t ! L.
first one who ever had the grit to
tell it.
81 have more respect for saloon
keeper than ror Il dancing teacher.
i 81 don't believe the saloons will do
rs much to damn the morals Of the
young people as the dancing school,
The evangelist had quite bit to
say about the theatre, too, the fol-
lowing remarks being made:
81 want it distinctly understood
that my scrap is not with the theatre
as an institution. fight the saloon
as an institution. but what | am
against hammer and tongs are the
things that the theatres stands for
and the rot and filth and rubbish and
trash that are spcwcd out over the
stage.
IF you want obscenity you will
ma IL Ill inc theatre. IL you want &c
see character destroyed you will find
that both behind and before the foot.
lights. Your show has to be trained
in order to gather in the coin. The
capacity of amusing people along
decent lines seems 10 nave gone by
That may sound foolish, but you lie,
somebody go out OH the road with /;
Shakespearan play and that some
body will 20 into bankruptcy while
the musical show and the burlcsquc
show and the leg show are playing to
full houses across the street and the
people are drinking IN from them gut
terish ideas and filthy lines and OBJ
scene songs.
Decent Actors Rare.
~ don't mean to say that all plays
and all actors are rotten. But you
will have to hunt pretty hard to fine
those that are not. They will tell you