Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — Daucing. [ARTICLE]

Daucing.

wbwuwuk? ui^unnii wire., or brother* be to him tiMUerll thinks,” for it. “pswed” by every Tout, Dick end Harry with whom ahe “will be pleased, etc.” The shocking remits of Buck dancing, all fiudonable and endowed as it may be, are too distrearinf to think about, and far more so to specify. » Bat apart from these <<»»»*«, which to be sore are the most popular in most parties, and would have made oar grandmothers, however little prudish they may be, hold op their hands in amassment and disgust, is there anything essentially wrong in dancing itself, when rightly ordered and taken in moderation T We cannot see that there fiTlt is no doubt exceedingly liable tc be abased. It has in all axes beeneroasly abased for the very worst purpoll*. Bat so have many things, which in themselves are praiseworthy enough. For children In e femity, or with e few yoang Mends, is there anything move objectionable in a dance, than in those charades—dumb and otherwise—which with someaefioas people are so popular f Is there anything worse than thoae games where forfeits generally involving any amount of kissing are in the ascendant 7 Is there anything so bad a* in the tittle tattle that passes Ibr conversation, and is not so careful as it ought to be of other pee* pie’s characters? We think not. It may look absurd enough to see people capering about like lunatics, but, after all, as a mere amusement, is there anything in it more foolish than fifty things in the way of relaxation which pass unchallenged as mere matters of course ? Can a Christian with any degree of consistency dance? We don't pretend to say. Only a Christian has liberty to do anything that is not sinfe]. Can a clergyman with propriety take a turn at the polka ? If any Christain can, so can he, for there are not two laws of conduct, one for the clergyman and another for the private Christian. If it is right for the one. it is not wrong for the other. Can a clergyman dance and fiddle and drink until three or four o’clock in the morning. He may if he like, but how comes it to pose that both saints and sinners would unite in a suggestion to any clergyman of that type that he had better depart out of their coasts, unless it was felt that that sort of proceeding was scarcely in accordance with being a servant or Christ in any capacity whatever? What lots of people have dancing parties, at which they would not care* to see their “clergyman” leading off, a la the Governor-General, or calling the company to prayers at three o’clock in the morning! And yet, why not? If Miss Echo were bound to answer the Question, we rather guess she would say, “Ton my word, I don't know."