It is really a very primitive form of the dance, and probably goes back to the pagan harvest and bacchic festivals.

You may see traces of it in certain crude peasant dances in out-of-the-way corners of Europe.

Now they teach it to immigrant girls in New York dancing academies and dance halls, and tell the girls that it is the _American_ fashion of waltzing.
Annie Donnelly's destruction was accomplished in less than a year.

It was the more rapid because of the really superior character of her home.
There was nothing the matter with that home except that it was too crowded for the family to stay in it.

Father and mother were respectable, hard-working people, and after Annie's first real misadventure, into which she fell almost unwittingly, she was afraid to go home.
The dance hall, as we have permitted it to exist, practically unregulated, has become a veritable forcing house of vice and crime in every city in the United States.