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Show MUST THE DANCE BE REFORMED. ', There are many people who like to dance but who have temporarily tem-porarily stopped because of the new character dancing has as-sum6d. as-sum6d. These people wouldjWel-come wouldjWel-come a reform, and would be glad to join again the ranks of 'the dancers. Intelligent dancers and intelligent people of every clas3 should put a stop to public misbehavior mis-behavior under the cloak of dancing. danc-ing. Cool, hard-headed men who are not reformers have said the modern dance is doing more harm to our youth and our country coun-try than the saloons ever did. There is no use in us blinking at this state of affairs, it exists, and a reform much come either from within or without. If those on the inside will do the cleaning up the dance will be saved. If not that reformer who cuts off his leg to cure a sore toe will be on the scene with blood in his eye. There seems to be a natural instinct in-stinct for dancing among nearly all peoples and in every stage of civilization, there always has been dancing and always will be, but at. different periods it has gone up and down in public favor, fa-vor, and in its standing as a form of amusement. Most any young lady would slap a man's face if he attempted such familiarities with "her in 'private which she readily submits to. on the dance floor. Many reasons have been assigned for this sort of behavior, beha-vior, but whatever may be the reasons there seems no legitimate legiti-mate excuse. Dancers and dancing danc-ing teachers if they were not short-sighted would be able to realize re-alize for themselves the modern dance is reducing the standard of our morals as a nation and as a people, and because the public approves mothers and fathers stand by and see their daughters in this sort of thing with one z man after another without making mak-ing the least criticism, s How long can it last? |