Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1912 — WAISTS BARRED BY CARDINAL [ARTICLE]

WAISTS BARRED BY CARDINAL

Women So Clad Cannot Attend Confirmation or Be Godparents In Vienna. Vienna. —Women dressed in clothing which reveals or slightly conceals the shoulders and arms, or who wear tight-fitting skirts, will be barred from confirmation either as spectators or as godparents to children, according to Patriarch Cardinal Cavallari, who preached a sermon recently which has set all the society women of this city Into a flutter of excitement Taking as his text St Peter’s words on feminine apparel, the cardinal attacked “Immodest, uncouth fashions,” saying in part: “The extravagance of women’s dress has reached such a point today that even men—l do not speak *of Christians, but ordinary men of the street—feel disgusted. “How can respectable women appear In public when thus arrayed? For my part I will not permit women so bedecked to attend confirmation, either as spectators or as godparents to children. I possess the right to exclude any and every person who thus shows a want of fespect for the holy Bacrament”