The Washington times., 1922-07-30

"Well," explains Mrs. Tuttle, 81
watched that little ffteen-year-o baby
dance, and l could not believe my eyes.
The little thing was white with passion;
she was livid, she was exhausted and
spent with the force of mighty emotions
that crazy dance had stirred up in her
"Now, the child was completely hidden
in the hulking arms of the great boy who
was her partner; then, again, with bold
rising of her dainty limbs, she would
strike him with her leg, and, next Tilt of
the dance, his knee, bent and upraised,
would strike her skirt in turn midway be-
low her waist. All the outraged feeling
of a mother of a daughter boiled at my
heart. Before l knew it l felt myself
walking, rapt, as though inspired, out into
the middle of that dance hall, straight to
where that couple were so far goLe in the
last intimacies of that sensual debauch-
the Slash Dance.
81 grasped that little girl by the arm,
and | pulled her, with determination,
away from her painting partner. | took
her, quick as ever could, into one of the
dressing rooms, where | delivered to her,
with sincerity and much heat, am afraid,
good old grandmother's homily on what
is seemly in dancing for a little girl of
fifteen, and what would be unseemly, in
the dance, even for a married couple
when appearing on a ballroom floor, in
public. While the dancers gasped, and
the chaperones gossiped, instructed that
little girl.
"The child was white; she trembled
with the mighty surge of mghtiest pas
slons aroused by the frenzied music, and
the frenzied dance. She didn't like me
then-but, later, we became great friends.
At the third of the series of dances I
chaperoned, that little girl edged up to
me, where sat viii the chaperones, and
we at length got to talking, like old
cronies. And-also be it remarked
after that child had been removed from
the floor once, for her ways-she never
resorted to those ways again.
Which proves, as | have always ex-
planned, that the modern child needs some
good, sharp, peppy, snappy discipline.
One-third discipline, then one-third ap-
probation, and one-third fun. When you
once teach the modern child that her
chaperon sleepeth not, and her mother
also his mother-has her eyes danceward,
and is not afraid to act, then you'll go d
cnormities of the Shimmy Shake and the
Bunny Hug"
But when you're blaming, discriminate
with your cenSure, says Mrs. Tuttle
And deal plentiful share out to your
modern, spineless, spongy, apathetic, lazy,
don n't-care, speak-to-'em chaperon and
mother. 81 have sat, with the matrons,
watching such dances being enacted as
would have opened the eyes of voluptuous
old Nero and taught Cleopatra's dancing
houris lesson in far gone license" says
Mrs. Tuttle. 81 have watched and so have
the patronesses. Once or twice | have
directed certain ladies' attention to some
shocking spectacle before us.
"Yes, those dear, polite matrons have
remarked, widening their eyes in yawning
observation. Yes, aren't the dances to-
day just too awful?'
They are l have replied. so why
don't you do something?
"'Oh, don't dare; | wouldn't interrupt
for the world; my, the very idea, what
would the neighbors say?' these chap
erones have replied to me.
eve just can't get away from the fact.
Modern Mary, seventeen years old, dane
ing under the influence of liquor, giving
all of herself to the youth who takes the
gift too lightly; modern Mary-the