Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1877 — Dancing Denounced. [ARTICLE]

Dancing Denounced.

Mrs. Gen. Sherman has written another letter against dancing. She says that she has noted “the wail of the wounded and the guilty” dancers since her first denunciation of the amusement. “It is not to be expected,” she continues, “that young girls, who are unconscious of evil in the beginning, should reflect long enough to summon the moral courage to resist the allurements of the dauce unless with encouragement and support of their parents. To the honor of pure maidenhood be it said, however, that there are young girls who decline from instinctive delicacy, even when their parents would have them join the throng who dance down the brqpd road of worldly pleasure.”