The Washington times., 1922-07-30

very little but praise in her heart for the
or, perhaps, twenty-five cents admission
and dance-also, perhaps, before the even
ing is over-with somebody you never met
till you came in. She has come back,
praising the posture, the clothes, the
speech and the general department of the
ten and twenty cent public dance places.
But, on the other hand, with accents of
pleading, and speaking as a clergyman's
daughter and a schoolmans wife, she
asks for a modern prophet-quickly-
else our very INCEST" young people will
descend, through the dance, to such deg
radiation and shame, till the license of
Roman bacchanalia, till the widest aban-
don of Sodom, famed for it's sensual de-
baucheries, will re-enact themselves, once
again, in the polite" dances of our young
people, of our "smart" high school fra
ternity dances.
Mrs. Tuttle blames six things for the
degradation of the dance of the high
school fraternity child, as follows:
First-The backboneless, spineless, fol-
low-the-leader modern dance patroness
and chaperon.
. Second-The liquor, which always flows
at the private fraternity dance.
Third-Cigarettes, in the young girl.
Fourth-The daring, saucy, modern
girl of seventeen or eighteen.
Fifth-Not the boy of nineteen, who is
modest, but the college man of twenty
two, who is looking, and anxious, and
eager, to go the limit always.
Sixth-The barbaristic, savage, music
of the Congo and the Nile, which, while
it plays, turns our Christian young people
into modern, immature, utterly regard
less young sensualists.
Now, having seen the evil, Mrs. Tuttle
is cropping for a cure-and, at length, the
lady has rested from her labors, to out
line cure.
"That cure is coming, two ways, per-
haps," says she. "It's either coming
through the fathers; or else it's coming
by way of the crazy, dance-drunk girl of
seventeen and young man of twenty-five,
themselves. AS for myself, having seen
the impotency and the Indifference of the
modern mother, and the burdens of the
modern father, in taking care of the
almost believe that the young people may
be spurred on and inspired, to purify the
dance themselves"
Of the sights seen, at the selectest pri-
vate dance, Mrs. Tuttle speaks with au-
thority. Speaks with added authority,
for she has interviewed hundreds of
young prep" school girls, and young
college men, on what sacrifice they might
be expected to make to save the dance
alive. And furthermore, Mrs. Tuttle is
lady of energetic sincerity when she is
dance aroused. AS evidence of this, just
three months ago, she acted forth the
faith that was in her.
She sat, one of the patronesses, at
dance in Hartford which was halfway
between a public dance and school af-
fair. From her peaceful seat, among the
patronesses, she saw little girl, fifteen
years old, indulging in such intimacies of
the dance, and such savage abandon, as,
perhaps, a naked girl, with ring in her
nose and bracelets to her ankles, might
indulge in, by torchlight, on the untutored
banks of darkest Congo. AS Mrs. Tuttle
explains:
'T watched that little girl all through
one hectic number of the Slash Dance"
The Slash Dance, you know, good people,
is a new Importation, where the partner
slaps and strikes his companion, in the
heat of the dance, where, in the last init