A WOMAN'S BLUSH.

Mataura Ensign, 26 January 1914, Page 5

A WOMAN'S BLUSH.

WILL SOON BE EXTINCT. PRELATE'S CONDEMNATION. 11ECTB1C TELEGRAPH COPTHIGHT SUN BPECIA.L CABLE. Received January 26, 3.30 a.m. ' VIENNA, Jan. 25. . A Roman Catholic dignitary, addressing coreligionists of tho Army and i avy in a pastoral letter, declares that luxury, extravagance, and the search for pleasure is every day attaining greater dimensions and is a serious mena-ce to the wellbedng of the individual and family life. Modern dances '■ and other forma of amusement did not (he said) aim at beneficial relaxation, j But the excitement of the senses, while the majority of the theatres disseminate, immorality. ! Field-Marshal Fekete, commander of the Buda Pesth garrison, has an-J nounoed that women were overstepping' the furthest limits of propriety in appearing in slit skirts. Military men must inform the women of their families that these garments were not permitted at military functions. AUSTRALIAN WOMEN.

JWeived January 26, 9.55 a.m. STONEY, Jan. 26. A large gathering celebrated the anniversary of the first Anglican service held in Australia 126 years ago. The Primate (Most Rev. W. Saumarez Smflh) in an address remarked that it was sometimes said that the women of Australia forgot something of the dignity of their womanhood' in thfc decorum of their dress. He did not believe this was true as a whole. It might be true now and again, but he was that the women of Australia would rise up and take care that these things would not he because of the solemn charge they had for the future.