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C J Dennis - Kisses And The Rhythmic Principle
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My dear ladies - that is to say, those of you who may happen inadvertently to glance 
   through this dreadful paper -
Most of you, no doubt, have felt impelled, at one time or another, to lightly caper
Round and about a ballroom, clasped in the manly and purely platonic embrace of some 
   intellectual affinity - some male bird of your type.
There comes a period in the lives of all of us when the time for such festive 
   prancing seems deliciously ripe.
Is it not so?  Then dance, dear ladies, dance every time you get a chance.
Pray, do not think for a moment that I approve of those incomprehensible persons 
   known as Wowsers.
I object to them on principle.  I object to all their works, opinions and prejudices.
But most of all I object to their absurd hats and totally nondescript trousers.
But I digress.  Ladies, I am your friend.
And ever shall I sympathetically lend
An ear to your protestations in defence of the polka-mazurka, and the schottische, 
   and the two-step, and the waltz.
To declare that such dances are indelicate is false.
They are not!
Nor is the turkey-trot
A thing of evil.
And, as some would have us believe, an invention of the DEVIL.
Nay, even the cruelly maligned sticking-plaster
Leadeth in no sense to moral disaster
For always remember, ladies, when you are indulging in intricate terpsichorean 
   evolutions, then that unutterably ecstatic bliss you
Experience for the moment is merely an abnormally rapid oxidisation of the mental 
   tissue.


Dear females - diners, tarts, peaches, flappers, bits o` fluff, and perfect ladies,
There are those who will tell you that dancing is a direct importation from Hades.
By making such absurd and obviously idiotic assertions nothing can be gained:
For the whole matter may be scientifically, psychologically and biologically 
   explained.
For instance, we will suppose that you are treading some stately measure -
Such as the Gaby-glide - with a partner whose appearance and deportment give you 
   entire pleasure.
And we will suppose
His is emboldened to propose
A subsequent and somewhat surreptitious adjournment to the conservatory -
(You know the old, old story?)
And, being half inclined to agree, you fall to wondering whether mother would really 
   miss you.
Do not hesitate, dear lady.  Respond immediately to the extraordinary and 
   not altogether unpleasant oxidisation of the aforesaid tissue.


And now, dear lady,
Having discovered a secluded nook both cool and shady,
It is just possible that your partner may fondly place his arm around you.
Nay, do not let this dumbfound you.
Be not alarmed.  No haughty glances, if you please,
For indications such as these
Betray a mind uncultured.  If you would act aright,
I pray you, regard the whole matter in a scientific light.
If, for a moment, I thought you failed to recognise the rhythmic principle I should 
   be sorely grieved.
Remember, always remember, my dear lady, that the poor young man`s overcharged brain 
   must, at all costs, be relieved.
(For, in the course of my exhaustive researches, I have discovered, after much Labor 
   and infinite pains,
That a very large proportion of dancing men are afflicted with overcharged brains.)
And then, should he, perchance, press you tenderly to his biled shirt, and ultimately 
   kiss you;
No protests, I pray you.  Reflet, again, that this is uncontrovertibly another
   manifestation of the rapid, not to say furious oxidisation of the aforementioned
   tissue.


And here, dear lady, endeth my discourse.  I have nothing to add except, perhaps, that
   it would at this point be advisable to return to the ballroom and your maternal
   relation.
Not, of course, with any idea of snubbing the poor young man with the overcharged 
   brain; but merely as an ordinary precaution against the possible effects of 
   over-oxidisation.
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