The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-11
SCORES MIXED
MARRIAGE and
MODERN FADS
GrandmOthers of Many Protest
ants Took Beads to Bed
With Them.

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New York. Dec. 11--"Mixed" mar
| riages, women's fashions, the theatre
| and other present-day customs and in
by the Rev. Father A. q. Brown, s.
j., in his sermon at high mass in the
Church Of st. Ignatius Loyola, Park
avenue and Eighty-fourth street, yes
terday.
Quoting from an article by DR.. Aus
tin O'Malley in the current issue OF
America, Jesuit publication, to drive
his point home to the large and fash
ionable congregation, Father Brown
said in part:
despite the optimism OF some of
our writer's. who like to hear the truth
about the Presbyterians but hate to
hear it about themselves, the church
is losing thousands Of her people in
America through mixed marriages.
PROSECUTING soupers, the rapid de-
generacy Of the public conscience,
avarice, aping the Genti1es, goddess
schools, lack Of zeal for souls on both
sides Of the sanctuary rail, dearth OF
clergy for the new immigrants and
many other related causes.
Grandmothers We're Catholics.
''Take up any evening paper and
you can read of the marriage OF
Gladys Murphy to M. Francis Burke,
in the Second Baptist church, by the
Rev. Peter Doyle, and every one IN
the group from parson to flower girl
h. ho
beads to bed with them. In all our
large cities there are actually colonies
Of mixed-marriage families.
'These truly refined foor-walkers.
club women, physicians, college
instructors and the like, find one an
other and group on certain streets
because they have been frozen out as
holy half-breeds by both Protestants
and Catholics. They are the early
Huguenot and scotch-Irish, De La
neys, Du Cans. Phynyzys, McMeins.
Lardcys and acknowledgements
who put the O in ocean, coming over.
SHOULD the family fortune be es-
tablished by trade across footballs. by
political contracts, understanding, or
what not, the children are sent to
Yale or Vassar, as preliminary
boost in social climbing.
"They do not learn catechism at
Yale, nor do they get far up on the
social tree trunk as a rule: but even
If the child does mount to the upper
branches and the balmy air, the re-
ward appears to be that he, raimented
from London, can go to the horse
show and watch q society lady, booted
and spurred. in voluminius breeks
fade over the water-jump like
scared cotton-tail. Enhancing doubt
less. but what's the use? No man
knows, the climber excepted.
Unclean Plays Attacked.
sour people are pulled down into
unbelief, too, by the rapid decadence
of the American public conscience.
Today indecent pictures are set up on
the boardings, and printed in the
papers that enter our homes; unclean
plays are presented in the theaeres
brazen danes flop about in what are
called esthetic dances, university
professors preach ethical slush, with
out protest, yet a generation ago
these crimes would open the doors Of
the penitentiary.
'The worst quality Of all this
paganism is that it has become
about the streets wrapped in nothing
much but powder, rouge and me-
diaeva1 faces Even grandmothers
waddle about. Cormthian columns
reared on French heels, clad like an
Irish sergeant in Highland regi-
ment, simpering, mincing, ogling, un-
til the DEVILS face is parboiled with
the tears Of his laughter.
IT shall be assured in the Agony
Column" continued Father Brown.
quoting from the O'Malley article,
that at the least our Catholic ladies
do not dress like the Queen of Sheba.
Don't they? Well, they call them
selves ladies.
Every One Had Powder Puff.
"The other day I was passing a
school just as number Of Catholic
girls were coming out. There was a
basement window near the gate
which made an effectual mirror, and
every blessed damsel that appeared
took a powder puff from her reticule,
or whatever they call their ammuni-
ton boxes, stuck her budding nose
into it, and battered down the street,
looking like the white rabbit in a
Christmas pantomime.
Powder puffs are not criminal, but
we're the Catholic girls dressed mod
estly? That depends upon what part
Of Africa you come from. Some one
calls all this late paganism the cookie
OF Professionalism. Both this pagan
ism and Protestanism are the weeds
of rheumatic Catholicism.
If our forbears and ourselves were
ho1 ~
be any weeds in the garden. Luther
was the water carrier at the end OF
the procession, not the drum major
Really practical Catholics are well
armed against both Protestant and