He has been the winner of several prizes in dancing, in fact, is an
elegant dancer and is wealthy. These facts gain for him admission to
whatsoever society he chooses to enter.

Think, ye parents who 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