nd variety" of the waltz. Its "health giving exercise," "its
innocent amusement" and its grace-giving qualities. Grace-giving,
forsooth. The grace of the harlot, to my mind, is not the most desirable
possession.

I have known many and many a non-dancing mother to encourage her child
to learn to dance, because she wanted her to become graceful, and in
many a case that daughter has lost grace, health, virtue and all that a
woman holds dear. If you have a choice of a saloon for your son, and a
so-called select dancing school for your daughter, I beseech you, in the
name of God, place your son in the saloon, but keep your daughter out of
the dancing school.

If you wish her to become graceful there are schools of physical culture
which are much better adapted to the development of health and grace,
and much less to the development of vile passions and depraved natures.
What I have said before will be no surprise to those who waltz, though,
of course, they will feign great surprise, ignorance, and innocence of
it all.

But dancing schools are often made use of in a way that is not so well
known. Professional thieves often frequent these places. Many of them
are perfect dancers and good conversationalists. They appear most
respectable and are, of course, so considered, since they are found in
the select school, where references are required.

They gain admittance to the school either by practising fraud upon the
dancing master, or inducing him to practice fraud upon the public by
admitting such a man for a liberal compensation, to what he advertises
to be a select school.

When once in a school it is an easy matter to form the acquaintance of
the wives and daughters of wealthy men.

To these he makes himself most agreeable, as he well knows how to do,
and, if possible, manages by some means or other, to get an invitation
to call. If he fails, he makes some excuse to call without an
invitation. During his calls he manages, if opportunity presents itself,
to seize some valuables; if not he will locate them, to be called for
upon some future dark night, and he is quite safe from arrest, for even
if suspected he knows that the ladies of the house who have been seen
with him in public would only bring disgrace upon themselves by
arresting for theft a man upon whose breast they often reclined in
public.

This, however, is of small account. If it was the only evil connected
with dancing, this book would never have been writ