The New York herald., 1920-01-25

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r-HE women of France have just had
a dressing down on the question
of clothing, and now the women of
II England are in for it. The French
clerical mandate, you may recall,
implied the necessity on the part of women
for special dresses for church wear. the
prevailing modes being condemned as i'm
proper in a house of worship of all places.
However. the plight of English women is
Just seven times bad.
French women may he hard put to find
way out of their difficulty. as the only
remedy seems TO be an entirely different
and in every way modest Sunday outfit If
the cures further condemnation is to be
avoided; but the criticism that is now
heaped upon English women is Of such a
character as TO defy any and all remedies
except that of entirely new outfits for
everx day in the week. For the opinion of
high churchman in England has out
lawed virtually every piece of apparel in
milady's modern wardrobe.
Thinks Immodesty End Sought.
Father Bernard Vaughan. in some very
startling epithets to modern dress and
draws some very sharp conclusions from
prevailing modes. To begin with. he says
present day fashions are bizarre dis
torted and ridiculous" after which he
speaks much more harshly in these
terms:-
by process of exhaustion l arrive at
the conclusion that they are designed not
10 drape the human form and keep it
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the set purpose of awakening in man un-
hciy desires and perhaps of tanning into
feVer flame those already kindled Per-
sonally. | feel quite sure that studied i'm
modesty on the part of girls defeats its
own ends. decent man who intends to
marry girl is not going to choose for. his
partner till death do them part girl
VINO has so little self-respect that she does
not even know how to clothe herself in de-
cency. He may toy with her. but his wife
she never win be.
Also. today's want of clothes is expos-
ihg our deoutantes to consumption and its
Kindred ailments, not BY hundreds hut
thousands. Improperly fed and immod-
eStly dressed, they defy AL the laws of
hygiene and down they 60
Dress to Keep Dry.
MY advice 70 girls is rnis:-Dre,, -,
keep dry, warm and comfortable and
prove to the other sex that you have a
self-knowledge, self-reverence and n
self-control which forbid YOU TO offend
God by defying the laws which He has
set UP for your protection, your welfare
and your happiness here and hereafter"
There has been no slackening of business
reported as result of this appeal in Bond,
Regent and oxford streets.
There has been considerable attention
Ia "a hA- - H.
HEures. as the Sessions are on in full
bfast IL is not 10 much a matter Of an
Increasing general total as it is of the
alarming preponderance of cases of one
Epd-faithlesSnesS of soldiers wives while
tleir husbands were fighting in France
That such state of affairs prevailed on
wide scale has been at no time doubted.
hut with the convening of courts for the
hearing of such troubles the actual
figures have startled the public. There
are fifteen hundred dRyprce cases now on
the London docket. six hundred in Edin-
burgh. and the number FOR Dublin. un-
reported. though not high. The total is
considerably greater than i'm previous
years, but the war explains that. How
ever, IL is the war also that explains al
most three-quarters Of the years cases
Lord Sands, In the Edinburgh Court OF
Sessions, made statement on the SUBJ
tect that has caused a stir. He said the
NUMBER OF cases on the docket arising
from the war was bad enough, but he
asserted such court statistics generally
represented only about a fifth of un-
reported domestic trouble
1000 Cases I'm Scotland.
II doubt" His Lordship said. "if the
cases which end in the divorce court can
be estimated at more than n fifth OF the
cases of actual misconduct. I do not think
the eventual total this year (for that
courO is likely to be under six or seven
hundred cases. while there must also be
great number of cases where detection is
escaped and there is no action for divorce.
But the conjecture that some three
thousand Scottish wives took advantage
o! their husbands absence on service
abroad is indeed appalling"
In a police court case the other day
strange thing came to light. 4 police in
spector. Intercepted by a magistrate as
TO the reasons for the bringing in of
British sailor, stated that three weeks be-
fore an order was issued to the police not
TO arrest absentees from the British navy,
but fortnight later the order was coun-
termanded. The magistrate asked the in
spector whether he understood why the