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/  Young men and young 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.            |
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| 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 lust    |
| craving incessantly for more pleasure   |
| that undermines the soul, the body, the |
| sinews and nerves. Experience and       |
| statistics show beyond doubt that       |
| passionate excessive dancing girls can  |
| hardly reach twenty-five years of age   |
| and men thirty-one. 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.                                |
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\ -- Quote from a 1910 periodical         /
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