DRAWING THE LINE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 202, 13 December 1876, Page 4

DRAWING THE LINE.

, A correspondent of the Mtlfaotirne Lea- \ d*r writes:—This appears to be » deckled »j case of obtaining service* under false pre,l tenets. A liazaar was lately got tip to ■ f clear off * church debt, and as nattal the l' ladies of the congregation came nobly to ■ the front. A distinct premise was, I am | : informed, given to a deputation of yottng i ladies who waited upon the bazaar eotn- | nrittee to prefer the request, that a dance j, should he allowed oil the last evening of , the sale. With this hope before tfiera the I, young ladies went into the undertafdttg I witli an energy that proved must disask trotts to their wale friends;. Them were ,'; never at any previoas bsstars so many . saleswomen, and, as moths Batter round t 1 the candle, the news of the dance ;J brought in young men in swarms. Li On the .closing night the large room in J which the sale was held was crowded by h the youth and beauty of the suburb ; and II Up to the very last moment young ladies i! exerted every art to attract, half-crowns , from the pockets of their gentlemen : friends. When the last doll was sold and r the last cushion raffled, the clergyman y whose cnttrch had been freed from debt ft announced that every one most clear oat. IjA thtmderbolt would have been nothing ||to the decision. "What; without our : | dance, after all we have done and all that Hwaa promised to nsf* was th« agonised chorus from scores of young ladies. "A | I dance would be a most unseemly ending | to sneh a task as you have been employed *on, w was the reply; " but, if yoc like, you can Save a tea meeting for the m a week I" Fromiscuous flirting, inntwcent cheating, holy gambling, were all winked at whue the bazaar was in proegress, hat when it. came to dancing after the stent the line was drawn. Ho money was to be got of polkas or quadrilles.