Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — Shocking Yet Ludicrous. [ARTICLE]

Shocking Yet Ludicrous.

Cincinnati Tribune. «A most shocking yet ludicrous thing occurred Sunday morning in one of the leading churches of this city. A beautiful young woman was the person guilty. She was elegantly attired and wore one of those peculiar veils that fit closely over the bonnet and face and tie in a sort of hangman's noose un der the left ear. After an eloquent and impressive sermon the bread in silver salvers was passed down the aisles bv the members of the session. The lady who wore the veil took a piece of bread and tried to slip the knot at the ear, failing in which she vainly endeavored to put the morse of bread under the veil into hei mouth, but she only drew the loot tighter. She blushed grew vexed, and tossed the typical fragment o: bread carelessly into the aisle.« Th< elder turned just in time to observe her and the plate almbstfell from hi* hands. Several other faces took oca horrified expression and then i smile. The fashionable young womar would have given her hope of heaver to have been able to retreat fron those glances, but quick as she wa* after the service to reach the door, she was not soon enough to escape the minister, who rerimanded her privately on the sins of fashion,