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Show i CRINOLINE IN THE PULPIT. English Rector Once Preached a Ser mon In 'Its Favor. Apropim of .the crinoline scare t must relate a quaint story told me by a gentleman old enough to remember, the "age of steel," and who was Intimately Inti-mately acquainted with the country parson 1iq preached the sermon ho quoted from. His church was a very small one, and his congregation a large and fa?hlouablo 'one. Tho rector was neither nnrrow-mlnded nor behind the times, nnd his taste as catholic enough to embrace I'ven tho crluolllm of the early COs. Ho did not flrid fault with their appearance, ei'ily with tho undue spaco they usurped. On one memorable1 Simda) morning he electrified his emigre- at Jem b) dls com sing on tho subject Up dealt ten-dorlj ten-dorlj with" the offending hoop and began by making a slngu'arly unpractical unprac-tical suggestion, with all tho tenor-Jtneo tenor-Jtneo of liln well-meaning maicuilno mind, to the effect that they inltht wear the o appendages during tho week with ::reat crlat. hut leave them olT on, Sund.us. Then, when the llutter his audacious suggestion hml begun to subsldq ho declared himself no enemj to but emlnonily tlio Iriend of fashion, changes of style -In An ss. lie n I-mated I-mated weie pleasing to the er ind excellent for trade; l!io cneomn ill Ingenuity In workfanil gate lesson In taste. "I hinti no Inirtitlon of drsparaJltig iour crinolines, myjilf nds. hi said benevolently, "but would lather d.iaw 'a lesson from them, and wish wiiinMl uijlieaw that.0ur virtue., 1. a l ,.s large as our s.elns. and jour s as small as'joiir waists.' -Go e-woman. e-woman. ' |