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Show SAYS BONNETS FRIGHTEN MEN Mixing of Sexes in Churches and Irreligious Boarding-House Landladies Deplored De-plored by Chicago Man. PITTSBT'RG. Feb. 1 2 Advocating the separation of the sexes in the formation of church organisation, and strenuoualy condemning the boardlng-houae landladies land-ladies of Chicago becauae of their disregard dis-regard of ecclesiastical conventlonalltlea, Andrew Stevenson, president of the Young Men's Presbyterian union of Chicago, Chi-cago, caused a sensation in his address to the convention of the Pittsburg Presbytery Pres-bytery in session here. In referring to the young men's organisation, Stevenson said: "The spirit of organisation has reached the young women and tbey are forming Bible unions But in some way you cannot can-not appeal to manly young men if you have a lot of bonnets around. Therefore. I would advise the formation of classes consisting of both sexes." Stevenson said the greatest evil of Chicago Chi-cago Is the boarding-house. "In our city." he said, "our landladies usually take no interest In church work or they are positively detrimental to the morals of their boarders." |