Who among the living will ever forget that poor unfortunate girl, in the State of Georgia, who was assassinated in the ball room by a jealous young wife?  The civilized world was shocked by the announcement of this terrible tragedy, which was purely the fruit of the ball room.  These parties were not of the low and vulgar, but were of the society people of the age.  How many husbands have in the same way and for the same cause had all the baser, brutish passions aroused to such an extent as to have their reasoning faculties dethroned, and have been driven by the raging devils within to commit many of the greatest, most shameful and most disgraceful crimes that ever blackened the records of a criminal court?  How many have cursed and abused their wives while on the way home from the ball room?  How many, after their arrival at home, have used their superior physical strength in abusing their wives in a most shameful and disgraceful manner?  How much of all this was the result of a frenzied imagination, and not for any real misconduct?  How many of all these cruel wrongs and outrages are never known except by the parties themselves?  How many fathers and mothers have neglected their children by leaving them in incompetent and unsafe hands, while they spent the night in the ball room?  How many husbands have left their wives, in poor health, sometimes sick in bed, with two or three little children crying around them, while they have spent the night in the ball room dancing with other women?  How many men and women, and especially women, from physical and mental causes superinduced by the effects of the ball room, have been driven to madness, and have thus become inmates of insane asylums, or have deliberately taken their own lives?  O! for the pen of a Milton or a Pollock!  But this would not suffice, because these questions can only be answered at the Judgment Bar of God, when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known.

THEY WILL BE ANSWERED THEN.

How many girls have innocently and ignorantly killed themselves, or have sown the seed of some terrible lingering disease, by checking the course of nature, by bathing or otherwise, in their preparation for the ball room, which they would not have done to attend any other place?  How many women, all over the country, are suffering the pangs of death from this cause alone?

One of the handsomest and most accomplished girls I ever knew, at the age of eighteen, ignorantly killed herself in this way.  I know through physicians of many others who have wrecked their health in the same way.  Let the invalids among the women tell their physicians the truth, and then let the physicians and the graves speak out, and the world would be horror-stricken at the awful report.  Whiskey has slain its thousands, but the ball, the hop, the dance, its tens of thousands.