Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1922-12-21
From Pilot Knob.

Not having been at home for the
past two weeks, failed to send In
letter for last weeks REGISTER.
Saturday night, December 2, Mrs.
j. T Patterson received a telephone
message that her mother, who is
making her home with her eldest son,
Judge w 81. Shy, near Black, Rey-
nolds county, was seriously i'll and
not expected to live. The next morn
ing, Sunday, she and Otto started for
Black, distance of nearly thirty
miles, arriving there at 4:30 P. M.
They returned home Tuesday follow
ing, and reported that her mother,
though in a very critical condition,
was somewhat better. If che lives
until her next birthday in 1928, she
will be ninety six years old, having
been born in 1927.
While waiting for the train one
night not long ago in a certain town,
noticed quite a crowd gathered not
far from the depot. / concluded that
/ would go over and see what was the
attraction, and to my surprise found
in progress one of the So called social,
modern dances. The last dance of
this kind that had the displeasure of
seeing, was six years ago, on boat,
The Grey Eagle, on the Mississippi
river, just before these gay terpsichor-
can excursionists left the wharf for
Upper Alton, Illinois. could not
help but wonder where those gay
participants would wake up, should
that boat have suddenly, without
warning, gone to the bottom OF the
river.
Those ssnew tangled" dances are
nothing more nor less than a alegalized
way of hugging and very indecent
way Of spooning and bellying. ] will
venture the assertion that If man
and woman should be caught on the
streets or elsewhere in the same posi-
tion that they assume in those noe
turnal dances, they would both be
Immediately arrested and locked up,
on charge of public indecency.
The old time dance, when to start
1t, used to be, "Honor your partner,
Join hands and circle to the left
might have been all right Cat least
they were decent) but I cannot say
so much for the new style of dancing
II there is not enough virtue in the
religion of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ to stamp out forever all desire
for the modern dances, do not know
definitely, and can only conjecture
where this craze for dancing will and
many of our young people, both single
and married. But there is an under
current Of dissatisfaction prevalent
which will. in the not-far-d -distanl
future, put q stop to this very com
mon craze. An instance at point II
the following clipping from the Globe
Democrat: "New York to-day wal
washed by a terpsichoreon reform
wave. Proprietors OF 400 public dance
balls were warned by Mrs. George
w. Loft, Deputy Police Commission,
er, that they would be jailed unles
they put stop to indecent, demoral-
izing dancing, ssCheek te
cheek dancing and movements know
as the scandle walk, the cradle rock
the Chicago camel, the syncopatinI
shimmy and chicken shakes are ter
rible. They must cease"
hope I have not thrown a ston
into veritable hornets nest, Be tina
as it may, would rather attack wha
believe to be morally wrong than t
have the good will and respect of any
one.
Wednesday night, John Bertholc
manager OF Kroger's store in Bis
marck, was heId up and robbed c
something over $50, while on th
streets, going home for the night.
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