MORALITY DECAYING.
LURE QF THE TANGO.
A CLERIC'S DENUNCIATION
(Per Press Association—Copyright),
ADELAIDE, March 16. ! The Rev. J. Evans, in a sermon, severely criticised the popularity of tango dances and corset parades. He said that the tango was the latest heresy in dancing, voluptuous, sensuous, amorous, and familiar. There seemed to -be a • taste for amusements spiced with the indecency of women in Scanty costumes; and stupid vulgarity* The whole feminist movement was a sign of the times.. Morality was declining.. The popularity of the tango was one of the disquieting symptoms} and the parade was an insult to the people of Adelaide. '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8820, 17 March 1914, Page 5
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