he windows down. A well-ventilated room means
poor business at the bar.

Annie Donnelly became a dance-hall _habitue_. Not because she was
viciously inclined; not because she was abnormal; but because she was
decidedly normal in all her instincts and desires.

Besides, it is easy to get the dance-hall habit. At almost every dance
invitations to other dances are distributed with a lavish hand. These
invitations, on cheap printed cards, are scattered broadcast over chairs
and benches, on the floors, and even on the bar itself. They are locally
known as "throw-aways." Here are a few specimens, from which you may
form an idea of the quality of dance halls, and the kind of
people--almost the only kind of people--who offer pleasure to the
starved hearts of girls like Annie Donnelly. These are actual
invitations picked up in an East Side dance hall by the head worker of
the New York College Settlement:

"_Second annual reception and ball, given by Jibo and Jack, at New
Starlight Hall, 143 Suffolk Street, December 25. Music by our
favorite. Gents ticket 25 cents, Ladies 15 cents._"

"_Don't miss the ball given by Joe the Greaser, and Sam Rosenstock,
at Odd Fellows' Hall, January 29th._"

"_See the Devil Dance at the Reception and Ball given by Max Pascal
and Little Whity, at Tutonia Hall, Tuesday evening, November
20th."_

_ "Reception and Ball given by two well known friends, Max Turk and
Sam Lande, better known as Mechuch, at Appollo Hall, Chrystmas
night. Floor manager, Young Louis. Ticket admit one 25 cents._"

In addition to these private affairs which are arranged purely for the
profit of "Jibo and Jack" and their kind, men who make a living in this
and in yet more unspeakable ways, there are hundreds of saloon dance
halls, not only in New York, but in other cities. These are simply
annexes to drinking places, and people are not welcome there unless they
drink. No admission is charged.

There are also numberless dancing academies. Dancing lessons are given
four nights in the week, as a rule, and the dancing public buys
admission the other three nights and on Sunday afternoons. Some dancing
academies, even in tenement house quarters, are reputable institutions,
but to most of them the lowest of the low, both men and women, resort.
There, as in the dance halls, the "White Slaver" plies his trade, and
the destroyer of womanliness lays his nets.

Annie Donnelly