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Show v The Public Dance. j The dancing seaon now begin- again witli f f j many public danger- to young people. Public j dances, frequented by human vampires and vul- lures, who are allowed liberties not tolerated eUc- where, and whose prey is the innocent young girl, will be held everywhere, followed by -in and -or-i row. The large per cent of disgraced women are i said to attribute their fall to public 1. d!-. -ay- h? Messenger, where they met fa-hionaMe libertines, I skillful iu surrounding the path to ruin by werhilv ; glamour and fal-e romi-e. There is n,. puMio j ball held where one or more or tia-e polished scoundrels may not be found, and. uldi" it is trie that Catholic societies surround their dance, wb'i j all the safeguards that care and scrutiny can pro-I pro-I vide, the case is different, where mixed -o.-ietv J meets. As for public balls, where there is iuvisa-! iuvisa-! tion to everybody, no self-re--pect ing Catholic-' Catholic-' young woman should aiteml any of t'n-ui. Parent-j Parent-j cannot be too strict in this matter. fo'vv hi'e -emc I dances under proper ehaperonage an uot haimi- fill, and may be innocently enjoyable to :i hi.-.!: !y ! benetieial degree, the public dance i- generally filled ; with temptation, and it- code of nior;d- exc -e.iinol-.-j injurious. A great deal depends upon ihe iudi-j iudi-j vidual. as to the effect; it mav hartnful to one and not harmful to another, but the palui;- daicr is no place, anyway, for Catholic ye;;ng u mien, o? young men. either. |