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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 417, 12 May 1871, Page 2

A few weeks since the Her. D. M- , pastor of the High Church Baptiat congregation in one of the thriving cities of New Jersey, received the following note: "Dear Doctor— You would greatly oblige one of your parishioners if, at an early day, you would preach on Ecclesiastics iii, last clause of the third verse—'A time to dance.' " On the following Sabbath evening the Doctor created quite a sensation in his congregation by reading the note, and adding ; " When I shall have become fully satisfied J;hat the important duty of dancing is aeglesfced in my congregation, rest assured \S will give all nee^i admonition on the subject." > The (Jan-can >-- the MABii^ Lß> _ The dance had begun ' »"d we adjourned to the temple. Within ii was a dnn,Ving saloon; and all around -6 was a br^, ac i circular platform for the dicers. I hacked up against the wall of t,K> temple, p Jn a; Wtt ited. Twenty sets formed, the musjo^struck up—and theu I plaoed my hands my face for very shame. But, I looked through my fingers. They were dancing the renowned ' (Jan-can." A handsome girl in the Bet before me tripped forward lightly to meet the opposite-gentleman tripped back again, grasped her dresses vigorously on both sides with her. hands, raised them pretty high, dancing an extraordinary jig that hud more activity and exposure about it that any jig I ever saw before, and then, drawing her clothes still higher, B>ey advanced gaily to the centre and lauucb^/'a vicious kick lull at her vis-a-vis that^Must infallibly have removed his nose if he had been seven feet high. It was a mercy he was only six. This was the can-can. The idea of it is to dance as wildly, as noisily, as furiously as you can; expose yoursall as much as possible if you are a woman ; and kiok as high as you can, no matter which sex you belong to. There is no wordof exaggeration in this. Any of tlie staid,' respectable aged people who were there that nigkfc can testify to the truth of that statement.