The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-04

won BhmDllnR ana take u ana Ouy
me a cut glass dish"
He said. Ma, cut II OUT What
/ is the difference between playing
| for a cut glass dish and playing Tor
twenty hones--go buy one" Yes.
that was all there was TO it,
DR.. j. q. Holland--some OF you
people have listened to HMM his
! little book entitled Gold VIII Tell
said: II have all my days hoped to
see card playing disappear. When
/ It does. there will be a moral up
/ lifting"
somebody said. DO you play
| cards, Blll?"
| No, sir, haven't had a pack o,
cards in my hands for 30 years. ana
/ t was 30 years ago, one dark and
stormy night, that found Jesus
/ Christ. and I've never had a pack
[ OF cards in my hands from that day
/ til this. ! have never tasted booze
since the day | was converted down
! 10 this day, although the wrisky
gang said I am n drunk II there
| is any lie that human lips haven't
/ told about me, trot II out. and III
| make that gang lay down.
/ Now. then, II the world was riads
| up of one family. | guess wouldn't
| need TO preach this sermon, but
/ fortunately II is made up OF mary
/ families, and each family is moe or
| less interdependent upon the others.
| It's a hsrdship to keep your child on
| the right side OF the proposition
when they see other children doing
! certain things. when they see them
doing II. they naturally want to do
| 1t themselves.
Dances All Look Al,kc.
I remember one time in Chicago.
whore / lived for twenty odd years.
Helen. who was little girl said
Mamma, couldn't go 20 dancing
school could -"
She sad: II should say you could
not, who ever put that nonsense in
your head?"
"Mr. Bernique's little girl Che was
a little hook -nosed dancing MASTERY
was down to the school today and
had on new dress with lS yards
OF ribbon on II. and che was showing
us the steps. and she said for us to
ask our mammas II we couldn't take
dancing lessons fro mher father. be-
cause II would make us all grace
ful."
I'd rather have my daughter or
sister waddle through life like a
, hIppopotamus.
Some body said you condemn
the square dance?" They all look
alike to me, There's many a short
cut to'the round one.
The dance had It's origin among
the ancient Eyptians, let me give
you some history. That's as far as
we know anything about 1t and II
was described as an invention OF
their God
Plato tells us that dancing was
a. .,
social amusement. The sexes new
er mingled together--never! 1t was
a religious ceremony to their Gods,
Men and women danced TO their
Gods as religious exercises, never,
[ never. did the sexes mingle together.
In the days OF Roman luxury and
| licentiousness. the dance degener-
ated into social amusement, In
India Rome. Egypt. girls danced
on public occasions. But II was al
ways taken for granted that they
were d.sreputable. and they were
prostitutes or they wouldn't do II.
No respectable woman ever danced
in public.
Let me show you how it's come on
down. Cicero. who died 4s years
before Jesus Christ was born. said
mo one dances unless he Is drunk
OF W Flis II NA' WV iN'''"s
should happen to walk into this town
he'd think the whole darn town was
buggy.
A Latin inscription on monu-
ment which stands today Gays: 1T
is d!sgraceful TO dance or for v!r-
gin TO enter a ballroom"
I'm showing you how they looked
on Il way hack there even in the be-
ginning. You think It's just a
twentieth century condemnation
see how things were away back at
the start. at the kick -off, away back
there; oh, the stately cotillion, I'll
tell YOU that's too low for the hot
blood OF the twentieth century!
The minuet of colonial times has
been relegated TO the rear, and In
It's place came the various waltzes,
oh, and the ragtime and Cubanola
glide and Mabile buck. Wow. walt
a minute, Such dances were not sem
sual enough, seemingly. to satisfy
these panderers that have no regard
for virtue and would not hesitate IN
come into your homefold and carry
ava ythe choice lambs from your
family flock. and they will seek an
introduction to your daughter while
she is rose in her childhood, and
they will lead her down to the booze
room and contaminate her and
transform her into a bloodred rose
of lust with the communicating in
tluences OF those that she meets
why, evil communication would
corrupt good manners. and these
dances were too mild; they did not
exicte enough, And these pander-
ers OF the ballroom, they brought
forth other dances and they gave
them the name OF Bunny Hug and
Kangaroo Wiggle and Turkey Trot
and Jelly Wooble and BallinR the
Jack and Kitchen Sink and heaven
knows what else--Jack Knife, my
friends, and the Oceana Glide, and
all those things And II parents only
knew how such dances and others
degrade-oh, you'd shun them as
you would a pesthouse!
The dance doesn't even spare your
boy. He may be a calla-lily OF pur-
ity. II will transform him into n
libertine, with a lustful gleam in his
eye, and he looks upon the girl only
as a victim through whom To prop
agate his evils and crafty his infa-
nous desires.
Oh, years ago when Helen was a
little girl and George could Just