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Show WOMEN IN THE CHOIR. Minister's Bitter Criticism Is Replied to Forcibly. Rev. A. L. Mooro of Atlantic City, ciused a good deal ot stir In tho New Jersey Baptist convention a fow days ago by making an address In which he spoke In this way regarding worn wo-rn on In church choirs: "A young lady with a plumed hat, fearfully and wonderfully won-derfully mado; a waist laced to several sev-eral Inches less than Its natural size nnd a ploce of sheet music in her hands, stands up and opens her mouth 'nd emits a series of nolsos In strained, strain-ed, unnatural tones, trilling, warbling, screamlug and rolling out sounds In-nrtlculnto, In-nrtlculnto, artificial, unnatural, not ono of them expressing an honest emotion of tho heart, but simply exhibiting ex-hibiting tho compass of her voice, which frequently Is ns metallic as tho coin that Is paid for hort performance." perform-ance." A matter-of-fact hearer broadly broad-ly hinted that Mr. Mooro was talking nonsense, "becauso a woman laced iflvernl Inches below her natural girth juUI not sing n noto, as any physician could tell him." |