Mind and Body Volume 20 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...and a church of the Mormon faith. Every Friday night, young and old, men and women, gather in these churches for the weekly dances, to which they invariably look forward with pleasure. The evening's entertainment is conducted much the same as services in our ordinary churches and are better regulated, as a rule, than in the average dance hall. The dance is opened with a prayer service, and it is not unusual to see over 500 persons in attendance. Since the establishment of the entertainments not a single act of disorder has been reported to the authorities. Decorum is the rule, and with decorum goes a large amount of enjoyment. Of course, the ordinary pastor would never countenance such a thing as the conversion of his church into a dance hall, yet one cannot help being struck by the fact that Salt Lake City, shut off as it is from the rest of the world by its religion, should have solved a problem that has worried both the clergy and the social reformers of other American cities. NEWARK'S RECENT FIELD DAY. By ERNEST H. SEIBERT, Assistant Supervisor Physical Training, Newark, N. J. On May 27th, the Board of Education sent notice to all the elementary schools that the Annual Field Day would take place on the 13th and 14th of June. Entries were to close on June 7th. The 13th was set as the day on which the girls were to compete in their athletic events and the 14th was given over to the competitions of the boys. Schools were dismissed at twelve o'clock oh Friday, the day of the girls rtleet and the activities began at 1:3c The boys oh Saturday started at twelve o'clock. The officials of the meet were selected from the supervisory corps consisting of three men, from the elementary physical directors 13 men, from the high school teachers five women and five men, ...