Dancing md Health
{"newspaper_name": "New-York daily tribune.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 2260, "word_count": 407, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9560999870300293], "ccnet_perplexity": [1311.4000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
Is i; not possible TO effect reform in the habits
Of our young people with regard to the hours Of
their Social ,ecreatons Dancing, which ought
to be not merely innocent but heathiul and laud.
able, is condemned BY great portion Of the wise
and the pious, and summed as corupting by very
many Of the young and the lovely 1t was once
devotional exercise, expressly approved by the
ministers of the Most High. Why is j. now so
generally condemned by the dovout Not be-
cause they are Pharisee' or bigots, os the ready
answer runs, but because il is usually practced
under circumstances most unfavorahlc to health
and good morals. II is denounced because it is
seen TO lead to and ally itself with dcpravty and
physical injury.


The evil in question arises from an absurd ha.
bit of aping the customs OF the small class who
either do or atfac. TO make their day of the night,
sleeping through the forenoon. These are few
aay where, very few among US. WiH'hem, it
is proper-that is, it is consistent-tos ess for a
Ball when those who work for a living are un-
dressing for bed; but for people accustomed 10
retire before midnight to assemble for Ball at
10 P. NJ. aud take hearty supper at midnight,
is sheer madness. They arc clearly breaking
dowa their constitutions and psrling lhsir hyes.
The consumprions, rheumatisms and wasting
coughs which originate a; these midnight assem-
blages are most appalling. It is suicide to brave
them,


Why cannot young people assemble at 6 in.
stead of 9 or 10 O'Clock, sup (f at alD as early
as 9, and break up psremporily at midnight :
Twenty balls under such rules would not work
the evil that ono midnight supper now does. If
there is not sense enough among The young to
etfsc, this reform promptly, the old should take
it in hand. Parents should inexorabiy forbid the
attendance Of their daughters at any entertain,
ment which is not to terminate by midnight
WIN they not think of this


FLoRlpA,--The Legislative Council OF Flonda
met at Tallahassee on the 9Th inst The Senate
could not organize because no choice Of Prosi.
den, of tha; body was made. The House was
organized, by the election of w. 4. Forward
Speaker. 1t was supposed that on the 7th INST.
George ". Maccres, Esq. would be chosen Pre-
e;S nf tho Senate