Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1920-05-25

those was the ways OF "A man with n
maid" OF course, he could have turned
the observation head for tail and made
IL the ways of maid with a man."
Ii works both ways. SOLOMON was II
dogmatic old wizard and didn't hest
tate TO say that things were thus and
so and no other way. Yet in the face
Of nature he admitted that his system
failed 10 work and he had the wisdom
to admit that he was up stump"
We have with us men very much
less wise In the ways OF human nature
than Solomon. but who have not his
modesty and discretion. To them there
is no mystery in the relations Of a man
with a maid. They know all about II
lnd do not hesitate TO admit IL. They
want TO tell us that mostly the rela-
tions referred 10 are evil. or of evil
tendencies. and at best carnal and
worldly. Marriage only Is holy, lend
ing respectability TO the pure and
lecherous alike. At least marriage is
/ great convenience, and allows a great
deal Of freedom under the cloak OF
Convention.
But how do people get marriedi
They fall I'm love, tbs said, and they
mate. This is the ideal. no doubt.
There are marriages, perhaps, that are
simply convenient economic arrange
nents passion does not enter into
them In any way. Such marriages are
usually contracted late in life. But
the normal Is substantially the same as
exempifled by the birds. We see their
goingS on every spring and the young
Of human kind are just AS wholesome
in their love making "All the world
loves lover"--all except those of
overweight imaginations who cling TO
aScetic ideas, fondly believing that in
celibacy there Is virtue.
But there Is danger, very great dan
ger to youth in unrestricted and UNI
instructed sex relations. Pathological
ymptomS mar the beauty Of the rela-
lions "of uan with maid AMI
physicians and mOraliSts seek the etio-
logical genesis. The findings are by
no means conclusive The moralist can
uggeSt only self-contrel and repres-
ion. which are all very good In their
way. But the physician points out in
herited tendencies to sexual preversity
or pollution due 10 environments Of
vice. Then comes the economist and
suggests that, while the moralist and
the physician may be right, they have
not laid bare the general principle that
economic conditions, that is, conditions
II under-nutritiOn and Over-nutritlOn,
determine whether or not the beauty
Of natural sex relations shall be marred
by indeccncy and lust. Last Of all the |
sociologiSt, unbound by the conventions |
that are inherent IN the older sciences,
and viewing mankind from the hill top
where Ill human relations may be OBJ
served. says that the moralist, the
physician and the economist, are all
right but too narrow In their View
points. The sociologist suggests that |
III these things he taken In c0nsidera-
ton and that right relations be estab-
lished through all the socializing forces |
that can be commanded.
Ii Is for this reason that eminent So |
biologists Of practical minds have tried I
to rescue the dance from the unsocial |
plane to which IL has been consigned /
by pure mOralists who have condemned |
il as wholly evil In its tendencies. But I
the moralist, be II remembered, is a /
teacher Of self-cOntrol and repression. |
Thou shalt net" seems to he the sum
of his teachings. lie takes no chances
and in medieval days Withdrew % the |
clOister, to caves in the mountains, 10 |
tombs i'm forgotten cemeteries and re-
mote places in the desert and wilder
ness. Here he would not be tempted by
sexual excitement women he Stunned
as creatures OF Satan. Moralists have
not altogether OutgrOwn this ascetlc
habit Of thinking and the dance 10
them is n mere passion play not at all
suggestive of the wholesome, crafty
ing, healthful and necessary sex con.
tact in the complex Of modern life
which has elevated women from mere
chattels to equal partakers in all the
social activities Of society. The moral
lists generally grant that the ancient
dances mentioned In Holy Writ and the
classics were not Objectionable because
the male and female participants per-
formed separately. But the truth Is
that male and female mingled at the
dances as they did elsewhere. at arms
length. and the Bacchanalian dances
were Iaf more lnuetenl anu lhstlNiouS
than any form OF modern dances. As
today, the anclents had dances that
portrayed the poetry OF motion" with
all purity and elegance. and they also
debased the terpsichorean art in foul
and immoral saturnalias. And because
Of the intimate human factors involved,
the dance could be sunk below the
point where the widest music, the most
suggestive painting, sculpture and lit
erature could not follow; yet the pros
titution OF all beauty in art is quite
common. depressing any Of the arts
always ends in its debasement, a fact
that any student Of the history Of the
arts will verify; humanity demands
fee expression and is at its best only
when allowed to express the best that
Is in It, Sociologists demand that the
dance be socialized.
The physician isn't interested In
dancing except In its pathological
manifestations. Persons that overin-
dulge in the dance and make II the
vehicle Of unrestrained sex expression
are apt to be deficit born: these people
are paying the price for their poor