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 written. The loss of
earthly possessions is of little consequence when compared with the loss
of health, happiness, purity and virtue.

I simply tell you this to show you how many evils a dancing master is
cognizant of in connection with dancing, that the generality of people
know little or nothing about.

Some one has said that few people know better than the dancing master
and saloon keeper, how many souls are sent through the port holes of
hell between the ages of fourteen and twenty by these two agencies of
the devil.

And he is right.

The heart of the dancing master must be even harder than that of the
saloon keeper, for while the saloon keeper must witness the harmful and
disgraceful indulgence of men, principally, he knows that there is a
chance that it may prove only a harmful indulgence.

But the man who can constantly see pure and lovely women being whirled
to a disgrace from which she can never recover must have a heart hard
indeed. Yet this is what I have witnessed and helped to perpetuate by