“Young men and women may work systematically six days in the week and rise fresh in the morning, but let them attend modern dances for only a few hours each evening and see what happens. The Waltz, Polka, Gallop and other dances of the same kind will be disastrous in their effects to both sexes. Health and vigor will vanish like the dew before the sun. It is not the extraordinary exercise which harms the dancer, but rather the coming into close contact with the opposite sex. It is the fury of just craving incessantly for more pleasure that undermines the soul, the body, the senses and nerves. Experience and statistics show beyond doubt that passionate excessive dancing girls can hardly reach 25 and men 31. Even if they reached that age they will in most instances be broken in health, physically and morally. This is the claim of prominent physicians in this country.”
—1910 Periodical
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