No Hats In Church.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3868, 2 May 1906, Page 4

No Hats In Church.

A BROOKLYN INNOVATION.

At the request of men who say that their view of the pulpit is quite cut off by the hats of ladies attending the Willington avenue Presbyterian Church at Brooklyn, New York, women have been requested by the pastor henceforth to remove their head gear before the services begin. In making the request to the fait members of his congregation, the Rev. Mr Warren Wilson said “I know that in his Epistle to the Corinthians St. Paul declaims against women going to prayers uncovered, but it is not always possible to run a modern Church along the lines laid down by St. Paul. Many of the men of my congregation have asked me to do this thing, as they could nit see me if they were more than five or six rows back, so I decided to try the experiment. I am interest d in the experiment, as I believe that in time it will be the custom in ell churches for women to remove their hats.”