WOMEN'S ABUSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 7

WOMEN'S ABUSES.

ABOMINABLE DRESS. Vehemently Denounced in Lenten Pastorals. CORRUPT PLAGUE OF DANCING. (By Cable—Copyright.—Press Association.) (deceived 11 a.m.) LONDON, Februarv 27. Bishop Hoare. Catholic Bishop of Armagh, in a Lenten Pastoral says: "The "first abuse which should be corrected in the Lenten season is woman's abominable dress. * "Satan made no mistake in subjecting the fairest of creation to ridicule, sin and Perdition. It brings a blush to the cheek to find grave mothers and pious daughters the cause of scandal in order to present a beautiful appearance. Woman never degraded herself as in the present costumes which lower her below i the lowest of the human family and suggest a loss of all regard for purity. ,- We cannot have a clean race until she is restored to her former dignity. Till then, do not let her approach the Holy of Holies." WORSE THAN DRESS. INCITEMENT OF DANCING. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, February 27. "A greater cause of anxiety than ball dresses, which are immodest, suggestive and an open incentive to passion is the senseless infatuation, and endless excitement of dancing," says the Bishop of Derry in his Lenten Pastoral. "It ■ is a corrupt plague, spreading rapidly and dealing ruin in many homes. Some dances imitate the excited orgies of savages. They are not merely an incitement to sin but so immodest that they cannot be witnessed without sin. "Until I see this danger and corruption ending I forbid the promotion of dances for any purpose."