WOMEN’S DRESS

Southland Times, Issue 20116, 1 March 1927, Page 7

WOMEN’S DRESS

LENTEN PASTORAL FIRST ABUSE TO BE ATTACKED LOSS OF REGARD FOR PURITY (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, February 27. The Catholic Bishop Hoare, of Armagh, in a Lenten Pastoral, says: “The first abuse which should be corrected in the Lenten season is woman’s abominable dress. Satan made no mistake in subjecting the fairest of creation to ridicule, sin and perdition. It brings a blush to the. cheek to find grave mothers and pious daughters cause scandal in order to present a beautiful appearance. Woman never degraded herself so nluch as she does in the present costumes which lower her below the lowest human family and suggest the loss of all regard for purity. We cannot have a clean race until she is restored to her former dignity and till then do not let her approach the Holy of Holies.” —A. and N.Z. DANCING A CORRUPT PLAGUE. BISHOP OF DERRY’S VIEWS. London, February 27. “A greater cause for anxiety than 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 Derry in a Lenten pastoral. “It is a corrupt plague, spreading rapidly, dealing ruin to many homes. Some dances are the excited orgies of savages. They are not merely an incitement to sin, but are so immodest that they cannot be witnessed without sin. Until we see this danger of corruption ending, I forbid priests to promote dances for any purpose.”—A. and N.Z.