PURITY CONGRESS
NEW YOPIK, November 11
The Purity Congress at Minneapolis denounced the modern problem novel as the chief cause of immorality, declaring that it led a certain class of people to imitate the experiences recorded therein. Dances, including the bunny hug, the turkey trot, and the tango, were dangerous to morals. NEW YORK, November 12. The Purity Congress at Minneapolis discussed the question of divorce. Bishop M'Cormack denounced what was really a system of trial marriages or actual polygamy. He said that divorce formerly was considered shameful in America, but now most respectable men and women boasted of the number of their marriages.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3114, 19 November 1913, Page 26
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104PURITY CONGRESS Otago Witness, Issue 3114, 19 November 1913, Page 26
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