Against God because He has said "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "I
say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust after her, hath
committed adultery with her already in his heart."

And against nature, because a girl thus constantly aroused, soon breaks
her health.

One may work six days in the week and arise fresh every morning, but let
him attend a dance for only a few hours each evening and see what will
occur. Health and vigor vanish like the dew before the sun.

It is not the exercise which harms the dancer in mind and body, but the
coming in such close contact with the opposite sex. Did you ever know a
lady who danced to excess to live to be over twenty-five years of age?
If she does she is, in most instances, broken in health physically and
morally. Doctors claim it to be a most harmful exercise physically for
both sexes. The average age of the excessive male dancer is thirty-one.

Beside the harmful exercise there is great danger from the exposure, a
girl is so often subjected to in a ball room. She gets in a perspiration
during the dance, and as soon as it is over rushes to an open door or
window with arms and chest exposed. Is there any wonder that so many
women of to-day are unhealthy?




CHAPTER III.