Dancing, done rightly, is an attractive and
healthful custom. Who does not love to see
a group of children engaged in this beautiful
and innocent sport?
But when the amusement is employed to
plant vile seeds of passion that may soon
spring into plants of shame and woe, the common
decency of a nation must regulate it
and restrain it, if that nation wishes to live.
If all the dances could boast of as happy
and beneficial a termination as the one rudely
described as occurring in the “Heathen Nation,”
there would be no supervision or restraint
necessary.
