DANCING ROOMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1933, 16 October 1874, Page 2

DANCING ROOMS.

A' lady subscribing : herself i ' "Terpsichore" makes the following ppmplaint in the"BullerNewß." ; I e don'^pret&nd to understand. Acts of .Parliament, .like you men; but rttiinkMr.'.'.F6x^on:d t; tii6 r .hpno]> . able members of Pariiament^h^y 6 no^ done a manly act in depriving us girls of a livelihood. Mr Fox, and'other old paterfamilias like, him, may rail at ; because, they can't dance.tnemsejves,, jiist as Lord Byron wrote against the waltz because he was lame ; but 'l don't see why we should be deprived^ of innocent amusement on their account. 'Dancing^is an an,cient pastime, and a; grae'efui accomplishment much practised, in all ages, and many, ladies and geiiitiemen, quite as respectable as Mr Fox, and other members of the Parliament, have indulged in it. "0h,".,, but these -.gentlemen say " dancing in a public house is shocking." Well, I have never been on the. continent, but the books I have read tell me'lhat in sunny Spain, Italy, and' other countries, dancing is publicly, practised by ladies and gentlemen, dons and- signoras, without any naughtiness. Mr Fox,- and: some old gentlemen like him, want to make us old before our time. If dancing is so very wicked, why do they have balls in the General Assembly hall I should like to knows. Can Mr Fox prevent dancing in houses ? No, the nasty jealous old thing, he can't, and he shan't. And pray, if it is naughty to dance in public, is' it not quite as naughty, if not naughtier, to dance in private. Drat the nasty old -thing, I've no patience with such sfarched-up, raockmoral, old bachelors, and sour old I paterfamilias."^ :,'::-:.