DANCING AND LAWN TENNIS ON SUNDAYS.
We wonder what the Gisborne parsons will say to the following, clipped from an English exchange : —•“ It will perhaps shock many to hear that Sunday dances are spreading, and threaten to become a regular social institution.
Sunday has long been a fashionable day for .quiet dinners, especially among artistic, literary, and theatrical sets, because it is the only day that many of them seem to have quite free; but three or four years ago everybody began to give dinners on Sunday, and now Sunday dances are spreading. In the suburbs people play tennis you may hear it going on in all the gardens around town, and in two or three of the big squares. Think what people will, it is done in spite of comment or even protest. Recently the fact being discussed in the presence of a clergyman, he said he and many of his fellowclergymen approved of lawn tennis and racquet on Sunday !
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 975, 3 September 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)
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161DANCING AND LAWN TENNIS ON SUNDAYS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 975, 3 September 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)
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