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Show PAGAN TENDENCIES TODAY. It is rather remarkable that in recent years there seems to be a decided tendency in the fad and fashion world to adopt pagan costumes in dress as well as in ornamentation. The low-neck dress, the bare arms, the crazy quilt style of hair-dross-ing, and the head covering of a thousand twists have taken he place of modesty and simplicity in female attire. Juuos and Mercurys and Venuses have replaced Christian statuary in Christian homes. All public parks are incomplete without a sprinkling of nude or semi-nude imitations of Greek or Roman gods and goddesses. Even our educational system forbids Christian instruction in any form while it recognizes pagan mythology by including it among the branches of study. The very latest evidence of the pagan tendency of the age is the abominable "Teddy bear" as a plaything for children. It was the fashon for highly respectable re-spectable women tocarry around poodle dogs instead in-stead of children. The latest" aggravation in the dog fashion is a grinning monster with boar's teeth and a volatile emanation suggestive of a packing house or glue factory, and for children a realistic imitation of a dirt wild animal. How degrading is all this. How incompatible with a Christian civilization. civ-ilization. Now comes a Hindu religious emblem, the Swastika or fyifot, which has taken the place of the cross or medal a3 an ornament for a Christian Chris-tian woman. The horseshoe for luck was bad' enough. Even the rabbit foot might be dismissed with a smile, but neither of these evidences of superstition su-perstition had its origin in a distinctively pagan religion as the Swastika. Better clean off these pagan barnacles and resume our Christian sym- . bols for ornaments and our former Christian simplicity sim-plicity in dress. Catholic Advance. |