Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
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no Catholic girls dress modestly?
The answer, according to Dr. Austin
O'Maley. depends on what part of Africa
YOU come from.
. Doctor O'NIalley, physician professor and
writer, who lives at 222S South Broad
street, believes that we are living in an
appallingly decadent age and that the deca-
dcnce is spreading so rapidly that If some-
body doesn't do something right quick,
something ls going to happen.
In "A scathing article in America"
Jesuit publication, he fays the Catholics
good Catholic that he is. for their part in
bringing about this dccadenCe. Mixed
marriages and fashions are chiefly respon-
sblc That Protestant OGradys and Nc
Evoys and ODonnclls exist in this land. he
declares, shows which way the wind blows
In an interview at his home, Doctor
,OMallcy expatated on his article, some of
the material for which particularly that
part about Catholic girls dressing immod-
estly, was CLEANED in Philadelphia.
our Church" he said Indignantly. 'is
losing thousands of her people through
mixed marriages. 1t Is no unusual thing
to take up a paper and read OF the mar
riage Of Miss Gladys Murphy TO Mr.. Fran
els Burke in Baptist or Presbyterian
church by the Rev. Peter Doyle, and
every one in the group from parson to
flower-girl had grandmothers who took
their beads to bed with them.
our people are pulled down into dIsbe-
lief also" he continued, by the rapid de-
cadence of the American public conscience
Walk along Chestnut street today and you
can see Indecent pictures on the boardings
that twenty years ago would have put some
one behind the bars. In the theatres you
can see 'actorines' that in former tlmes
would have been wrapped in horse blankets
4 10, h.W WNaf- al
wagons. Cnclean plays are presented,
brazen danes flop about in what are called
esthetIc dances, university professors
preach ethical slush, without protest. yet IA
generation ago these crimes would open
the doors Of the penltentiary. The worst
quality of this paganism Is that 1t has be-
como a matter OF course.
"Our women strut about the streets
wrapped in nothing much but powder, and
rogue. Even grandmothers waddle about
Corinthian columns reared on French heels,
clad like an Irish sergeant in a Highland
regiment, simpering, minclng. ogling, until
the DEVILS face is parboiled with the tears
of his laughter,
',The other day was passing Catholic
school-one of our most fashionable, A
number of airls were coming out. There
was n basement window near the gate
which made an effectual mirror. and every
blessed damsel that appeared took powder
Jun from her retiCule, or whatever you call
their ammunition boxes struck her budding
nose into IL, and pattered Off down the street
looking like the white rabbit in "a Christ
mas pantomine Powder puffs are not Grim
inal, but were these girls dressed modestly?'
Doctor O'NIalley paused and smiled and
consulted his article.
We'll as I have written 1t depends or
what part of Africa you come from"
But Doctor OMalley would go no further
He would not be specific in regard to the
details or lack of details which made the
dress of the girls from the Catholic school,
immodest He saw them and that was
enough for him. Doctor OMalley has
taught at Fordham, Georgetown and the
University of Notre Dame.