BEHAVIOUR IN CHURCH.
Protesting against what he described as the growing custom of bridesmaids and other women in bridal parties attending .marriage services with uncovered heads, the Rev. H. N. Bales, vicar of Waltham Cross, near London, said it was common for bridesmaids to attend the service either without hats or with something which by no stretch of imagination could be called a covering for the head. In future the clergy of his parish, he said, would decline to solemnise marriages where the Scriptural rule was not observed. Then again at a meeting of All Saints Church, Eastbourne, one of the sidesmen made the remarka,ble but possibly timely suggestion that in order to set the congregation a good example sidesmen should not cough, or use their handkerchiefs so much during the services. The vicar perhaps and the other sidesmen ;would make a note of the suggestion.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 127, 30 May 1914, Page 12
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146BEHAVIOUR IN CHURCH. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 127, 30 May 1914, Page 12
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