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Show Hats in Church The city of Rome is much exercised by the "shameless" way American women tourists dress or don't dress. Especially Espe-cially is it shocked by their hot-weather practice of entering enter-ing church with uncovered heads. Roman newspapers say they may be signs put up on the churches strictly forbidding women to enter without hats. "We must act promptly," says a leading paper, "because more of these exotic excursions from the United States are coming. But we shall not tolerate those who profane our temples." This is really a curious criticism. A visitor to a Mohammedan mosque must take off his r-hoes. A worshipper in an American church must keep his shoes on. In a Christian church in Rome, and perhaps most other places, the man must take his hat off and the woman keep hers on. An orthodox male Jew anywhere must keep his hat on in church. Is all this religion or fashion? |
