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Show oo NEW NOTICE THAT EVERYTHING IS VILE. If Americans remain blind to the Shocking Btate Of iheir morals it is not for lack of warnings In the bare knees of some young women dancers at a Port Chester charity performance a reverend critic sees symptoms of "a inanace lo the welfare of our nation much more subtle and destructive than bodily sickness and disease"; and' in Tai ls a dancing master, protesting ! against "American contortions," says - j "Paris is resolved not to suffer any longer American immorality In the form of the shimmy-shake and other revolting importations from America."! Paris declaiming against the luv. morals of American dancing is some thinu. Hut it is from an Atlantic City convention of reformers that the worst indictment comes According to out speaker "in public' these days you can scarcely u:U ih difference between a street-woman and a church woman." it is a sad catalogue of decadence. It la conceivable, of course, that Paris Should look askance at an improper dance not ol Parisian origin, and bare, knees are Admittedly shockiut on a . j suburban stage; these are sights for I Broadway But are not the eyes of our I Atlantic City moralists unduly jaund-1 jaund-1 Iced? Perhaps a public that has heard all the changes rung on the corruption of American morals will not take this jeremiad as seriously as its authdrs might wish. New York World |