WOMEN OF TO-DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 10

WOMEN OF TO-DAY

DRESS AND- DANCING

"BELOW THE LOWEST"

SCATHING DENUNCIATION

(United Press Association.-Copyright ) (Received 28th February, 2 p.m.) Th P t? LONDON, 27th Feb. - The Roman Catholic Bishop of Armagh in his Lenten Pastoral savi that the first abuse which should bl corrected in, the' Lenten Sis' woman's abominable dress. Satan made no mistake uv subjecting the fa!re?t ot creation to rid cule, s i», and perdition!' It brings a blush to the cheek to find ' grave mothers and pious daughters S«*!.I cf ndal ia or^ to present-"* beautiful appearance. Woman never so degraded herself as in her present cos--: ■I s ' T hlch lower her below the lowest 1" loss of all regard for purity. . .i We cannot have a clea"n race untiE she is restored to her former dignity.. herapproacht^ "A greater cause of anxiety thaa ball dresses which are immodest, suggestive, and an open incentive to passion is the senseless infatuation for ■ the endless excitement of dancing >" says the Catholic Bishop of Londonderry in his Lenten Pastoral. "It is a corrupt plague spreading rapidly and dealing ruin in many homes. Sdme dances imitate the excited orgies of - savages, and are not merely an incitement to sin but are so immodest that they cannot be witnessed without sin. Until I see this danger of corruption, ending I forbid priests to promote dances for any purpose."