Popular amusements . so to manage that the victory shall goin a certain direction, and for a share of thespoils thus surrender the one side to premed-itated defeat, and crown the other with falselaurels. I have heard of one case, where amatch game was played and many bets were 88 POPULAR AMUSEMENTS. pending, and interested parties secured agiven result by paying the moderate sum ofthree hundred dollars. In fact, so many vices are beginning togather about the great national game, assome foolishly term it, that every one con-nected with it seems to be regarded with adegree of suspicion. Merchant
Popular amusements . so to manage that the victory shall goin a certain direction, and for a share of thespoils thus surrender the one side to premed-itated defeat, and crown the other with falselaurels. I have heard of one case, where amatch game was played and many bets were 88 POPULAR AMUSEMENTS. pending, and interested parties secured agiven result by paying the moderate sum ofthree hundred dollars. In fact, so many vices are beginning togather about the great national game, assome foolishly term it, that every one con-nected with it seems to be regarded with adegree of suspicion. Merchants and others,who employ numbers of young men, aredoubtful about members of ball clubs, and re-ject candidates who are connected with looks a httle hard, but we must remem-ber that business men want reliable, trust-worthy clerks, salesmen, and we are trying to learn the characterof a stranger every hint is of value, and athing aboiit which so many things cluster cannot be a CHAPTER VI. DANCING AND BALLS. They said forth their little ones like a flock, and their chil-dren danced Job xxi, ii. LET us now turn from outdoor diver-sions to those amusements which donot, of necessity, demand daylight and spacefor their cultivation. Dancing is one of these; and as attemptsare being made at the present time to intro-duce it into circles whence it has hithertobeen rigidly excluded, we honor it with thefirst place in this part of the discussion, andpropose to give it all due attention. It ispresumed that the advocates of dancing willinsist, at the outset, that we shall make a 90 POPULAR AMUSEMENTS. distinction among the various fashionabledances of the times. It is not probable thatany reader of this volume will attempt to de-fend the German, or round dances. It is ashameful, revolting spectacle to see a younggirl whirling around in the arms of a manwho perhaps an hour ago was an utter stran-ger to her, her head leaning upon his breast,and their
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