But ultimately she learned to drink beer for the benefit of philanthropists who furnish dance halls rent free, and also to quench a thirst rendered unbearable by heat and dust.

They seldom open the windows in these places.
Sometimes they even nail the windows down.

A well-ventilated room means poor business at the bar.
Annie Donnelly became a dance-hall _habitue_.

Not because she was viciously inclined; not because she was abnormal; but because she was decidedly normal in all her instincts and desires.
Besides, it is easy to get the dance-hall habit.

At almost every dance invitations to other dances are distributed with a lavish hand.