TOILET IN CHURCH.
“LIMIT OF BAD MANNERS.” ENGLISH RECTOR’S COMPLAINT. ;Uuited Prese Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) —United Service). LONDON, Dec 27. Citing complaints about igirlis powdering their noses, which apparently shine bins good deeds in a naugnty world, during evensong oil Sundays, the Rev. Stewart Bernays, nector of Finchley, declared that he himself suffered art. the theatre by a girl combing her hair between sceneis over his dress suit. “I was tempted in my mid-Victorian wrath to take a shaving ,sot to see how a good fob ave would interest the audience,” said the rector. ‘‘lt would have been cleaner than brushing one’s hair over other people. “Performing the toilet in church seems the limit of bad manners. I omit the question of irreverence, but even the shiniest of noses might he left in their native state until the worship of God, is over.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 December 1928, Page 5
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