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Show I j protection from th knes to the ankl "As to fmxlrMy." h says. "I do not remember vtr meeting sny lady on the FhUadflphis, street whose attlrr stiuck me as Immodest." "I can find you a lars number of clergymen who believe women wearinir present style are advance agents of the devil. said John B Or-isMy. chairman of the dreu reform committee. commit-tee. "And for every such opinion 1 can find - another preacher who says women's clothes are all right." CLERGYMEN CONDEMN PRESENT DAY STYLES PHILADELPHIA, Keb. 4. A Jury of nearly 1200 clergymen, askrd by the women's dress committee to Judge the clothes of the fair sfrx, has disagreed. Although the majority do not flay feminine femi-nine fashion as being Immodest they say that if women do err they do so against health rather , than against morals. Women's waists should cover their necks, "unless they want to get pneu- 4. monia," advises the Kev. M. O. Kyle, professor of Xenia United Presbyterian seminary, tSL Louis. ISkirta that do not gather up the dirt of the streets are favored by the Rev. Herbert E. Pen-ton, Pen-ton, pastor of the Universal, st Church of the Messiah. "But such abbreviation abbrevia-tion of the skirt should be guided by good Judgment," he adds. "It can be and usually is done In such a manner! as to warrant no charge of immodesty.' I i hop L. J. Coppln summed up nls views. In this succinct fashion: "Women "Wo-men should dress to be comfortable. Another clergyman voices his disapproval disap-proval of women exposing their boeinns as ''unh) gientc and dangerous.'; He I condemns tight larins- and urges mora: |