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FROM THE

Ball-Room

TO

HELL

BY

T. A. FAULKNER

EX-DANCING MASTER

Formerly Proprietor of the Los Angeles Dancing Academy and ex-Presidentof Dancing Masters' Association of the Pacific Coast.

THE HENRY PUBLISHING CO.
57 Washington St., Room 16.
CHICAGO.

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Copyright 1892
BY
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PREFACE.

You will, my dear reader, find many very plain things between the twocovers of this little book; things which will, perhaps, shock yourmodesty and probably disgust you altogether.

But if you find merely the reading of the facts disgusting, think howmuch more disgusting is the reality, and how essential that some oneshould portray the evil to the public in a manner impressive and not tobe misunderstood.

I have numerous reasons for undertaking this work, chief among them,however, being because I have for many months, felt it to be a duty tomy God, and to my fellow-man. Nay, I may put it in a yet more conciseform; and simply say, because of a sense of duty to my God, for Ibelieve the two to be inseparable. As the green calyx of the rosebudholds with[Pg 4]in its embrace everything required to make up the perfectrose in all its beauty of form, texture, tint and perfume, so my duty tomy God embraces my whole duty to my fellow-man in all its beauty ofkindness, love, and any help or warning I may be able to give, and ifthat duty shall lead me to speak out boldly and plainly a warningagainst the evil of a popular amusement, I will boldly and plainlyspeak, and leave the result with Him whose I am and whom I serve.

Many will, doubtless, object to the book on account of the plainness ofthe language used; but, my friends, I have endeavored to tell the truth,and to do this on such a subject, does not admit of the use of delicatelanguage. A mild hint at such a fact, clothed in flowery language, wouldonly serve to give a vague impression, and would fall far short of themission I wish this little book to accomplish, viz.: the opening of theeyes of the people, particularly parents, who are blind to the awful[Pg 5]dangers there are for young girls in the dancing academy and ball-room,and of leading some, if possible, to forsake (as I have done) the oldunsatisfactory life of selfish pleasure and sinful indulgence and enterupon the purer, nobler and far happier life, which I have found in theservice of the Lord.

I do not undertake to write upon a subject of which I am ignorant. Thereare, perhaps, few people living who have had more practical experienceor better opportunities of finding out the evil influences of dancingthan myself. I began to dance at the age of twelve and have spent mostof my life since that time, until within a few months, in the dancingparlors and academies. For the last six years I have been a teacher ofdancing and for several years held the championship of the Pacific Coast