The Archive · 1933

DANGEROUS THOUGHTS

Dairen seems to be tackling the Qhe cabarets in a "most. whole-problem of its dancing partners la

mated manner, owing to. the Rgitation of women's "clube and civie associations, - The injunctions Addressed to the girls by the chief Of police could not. but arouse ire, for'each one of them amounted slander by innuendo, To tell dance hostess that she must conduct. herself in a tactful and demure manner, suggests tha hitherto she has been falling in de-ortment. To suggest that beer and Sake should" be drunk only Moderate quantities fx calculated eave the impression that the young women "in, the ast have not: been Been. And then'to cap it all the Well behaved as they might have

girls are told. that there must be indecorous dancing, and~ that They must be modestly clad; tha: is, undoubtedly, adding' insult to i Jury and the girls are angry about ie.' What they' can do in the matter {ig not at present apparent, but they will have. to. do. something seems to be demanded. by ths! "standards of the profession. So, \Sehen the Dairen chief of "police next visits a cabaret,—if, indeed, ever does,—he must' not Surprised if all" the girls hurriedly from their seats and vacate the premises, on the score that he is the sort of person they do not care socially to know. Whether this would lead the young! women into the danger of appre: hension on the charge of thinking dangerous thoughts, reinaing to be cen, but no self-respecting dancing Parther could ever be expected to endure the slights east upon them by @ tactless group of reformes. Mr, Turveydrop's opinion of the Police at Dairen might be interes" ing.

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