Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-11-04 | Page 5 | Demand Mirrors in Churches

DEMAND MIRRORS IN CHURCHES architect says women are clamoring for innovation 1 I wont name nama the church said the architects young man it Is ore that stood in need of repairs a short while ago my boss boas got tho the job ot of putting it in order I 1 attended to most moat of the preliminary details and I 1 give you my word that in the list of improvements recommended by tho the committee was waa a lot of amala mir mirrors rord to bo be put into the backs of the seats so the ladles ladies could see aee how their hats hate loo looked ed when they knelt down to pray before the work was really begun the rest of the congregation got wind bof of the contemplated innovation and raised no end of a row the question looking glasses or no lo locking oling glasses was voted on by the whole church the conservative noes won out by a small majority they insisted that people kneel tor for devotional purposes not to study the set of their hats and that to put temptation in the shape of a mirror into the back of every seat would bo be positively but it is a question ques lion that will bob up again with tho the building of other churches most of the women of the congregations are demanding looking glasses in tho the churches churchea either inthe pews or set as panels in we tha walls