I know of a select dancing school where in a course of three months
eleven of its victims are brothel inmates to-day.




CHAPTER V.

EQUALLY A SIN FOR BOTH SEXES.


I have, in the preceding pages, spoken chiefly of the harm that comes to
women from dancing, and have shown how vile men make use of the
privileges the waltz and its surroundings afford to lead once pure girls
to impurity and often to crime. But do not think for a moment that
because I have here thus spoken, that I hold the women blameless or the
dance to the man harmless.

While the woman is more often disgraced in the sight of man, I believe
that in the sight of God the sin of dancing is equally a sin for both
sexes.

A girl is often ensnared into intoxication and thus into greater sin by
vile men, but she is not wholly excusable. If she goes to a ball she
must take the consequences. Every woman has a God-given instinct which
teaches her right from wrong, and she cannot but know that to indulge in
such emotions as the modern waltz fosters is wrong.

It is a horrible fact, but a fact none the less, that it is absolutely
necessary that a woman shall be able and willing to reciprocate the