p. 326 | Morality Dances

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 25, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 21.

Morality Dances

AN influential woman in New York City conceived the idea of having special society dances for the purpose of keeping wives and husbands together. She thinks, and others think, that these dances have proved a great success, and the plan is extending to other cities. The theory is that if the wife can be induced to attend such a dance with her husband, she will not become nearly so jealous if she sees him dancing with other women as she would if she remained at home and had to brood over the idea that he was out and she did not know where he was.

The sturdy people of a generation ago would have hardly thought of such a “reform” as this. But we are in an age that is vibrant with the “reform idea”; and because so many people are taking reform, the vast majority are hypnotized into the idea that everything is going along all right. But wise men and women will not allow themselves to be deceived. Men and women, husbands and wives, whose attachment for one another is so slender that they have to be held together by society dances, are hardly in a position to make strong moral units in society.