ture
more or less depraved and health more or less impaired. And any woman
with a nature so cold as not to be aroused by the perfect execution of
the waltz, is entirely unfit to make any man happy as his wife, and if
she be willing to indulge in such pleasures with every ball-room
libertine, she is not the woman any man wants for a wife. It is a
noticeable fact that a man who knows the ways of a ball-room rarely
seeks a wife there. When he wishes to marry he chooses for a wife a
woman who has not been fondled and embraced by every dancing man in
town.

It is also noticeable that after marriage few men care to dance, or to
have their wives dance.

The second reason why so many dancing girls are ruined is obvious, when
one considers how many fiends there are hanging about the dancing
schools and ball-rooms, for this purpose alone, some of them for their
own gratification, and others for the living there is to be made from
it. I am personally acquainted with men who are professional seducers,
and who are to-day making a living in just this way. They are fine
looking, good conversationalists and elegant dancers. They buy their
admittance to the select (?) dancing school by paying an extra fee, and
know just what snares to lay and what arts to practice upon the innocent
girls they meet there to induce them to yield to their diabolical
solicitations, and after having satisfied their own desires and ruined
the girls they entice them to the brothel where they receive a certain
sum of money from the landlady, rated according to their beauty and
form.

Can you wonder when the degrading, lust-creating influence of the waltz
itself is united with the efforts of such vile demons of men as I have,
described, that two-thirds of the dancing-school girls are ruined.

It is a greater wonder that any of them escape. The question is often
asked: If what you say be true, why do not more of the dancing girls
become mothers? I will tell you why. It is because they dance away all
fear of maternity. It is the knowledge that the dancing floor _exercise_
will relieve if they get into trouble that makes many a woman bold
enough to take risks.

Dancing and drinking invariably go together. One rarely finds a dance
hall without a bar in it, or a saloon within a few steps of it, and
sooner or later those who dance will indulge in drink, which is the
devil's best agent in the carrying on of the vile business transacted
in, and in connection with