have daughters who dance, of their being night
after night in the embrace of such men as he, as they most certainly are
if they dance much. Such men as he flock to places of dancing for that
very purpose.

Some may say that places of dancing are not the only places where such
men are to be found. True, but at no other place would they be allowed
to take such liberties with your daughters that they may there. This
they well know and consequently there are more of them to be found in
places of dancing than elsewhere, and it is not the whirling that they
go for and enjoy.

How long would dancing be kept up if they were to whirl alone, or if men
were to dance with men and women with women? Ah, no; it is not the
whirling, but the liberties the waltz affords, which forms its chief
attraction.

You, perhaps, think your daughter is in the most select society, and
only in such, and will accept only the most respectable gentlemen as
partners. But, how are you to know this? How can you be sure that this
very man of whom I have been speaking, or another of the same type, is
not among those considered the most respectable in the select parlor
dances?

You may be perfectly certain that _he_ will never publish his own
misdeeds, and the girl cannot expose him without making public her own
disgrace, so his base deeds go undiscovered and he may still be found at
dancing parties or on the street corners engaged in the occupation in
which we first met him, viz.: seeking whom he might destroy.

What decent woman, if she knew his real character, would wish to throw
herself into the arms of such a man. If she were a true women she would
almost rather die than have such a man even touch her, to say nothing of
being in his close embrace for the space of a waltz.

Or, what lady would allow any man, in any other public place, except the
ball-room, to take the liberties with her that he takes there? Would a
lady with a spark of self-respect, at any other place, lay her head upon
his shoulder, place her breast against his, and allow him to encircle
her waist with his arm, place his foot between hers and clasp her hands
in his?

This is the position assumed in waltzing, and I tell you, my friends,
that such a position tends, in a greater or less degree, to develop the
lower nature of sexes. It cannot be otherwise. It is in perfect
accordance with nature. I have heard girls express utter innocence of
having any improper emotion aroused by t