Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1883 — Bullets in the Ball-Room. [ARTICLE]

Bullets in the Ball-Room.

A young fellow went to a doctor to have his legs examined, and there came near being a consultation of physicians over the case. His shins were black and blue in spots, and he didn’t know what was the matter. He said when he attended dances, and was waltzing, he often felt peculiar sensations on the shin bones as though he had been struck with something hard, but he didn’t know but it was nervous prostration. The doctor went to the next dance, and when the young man felt the peculiar sensation, he whistled, and stopped waltzing, and led the girl up to the doctor. It was soon discovered that the trouble arose from the small leaden bullets that girls wear in the bottom of dresses, to make them set well. The young man only dances quadrilles now. —Peck's Sun. Thebe is but a step between a proud man’s glory and his disgrace.