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Show immodest! I ; DRESS CODEMED Taking immodesty in dress among young women in the ballroom today geireration as his name, Rev. Father Patrick M. Cushnahan delivered a strong arraignment of the practice yesterday morning in St. Joseph's Catholic church. In part, he said: "Dresses worn by some of our young Avome nin the ballroom today would put the uncivilized redskin to shame. I have had cases brought to my attention, 'one in particular,' where a mother in my parish felt it her duty to forbid her daughters to visit the home of certain other girls who seemed to have so far forgotten the laws of common decency that they wore, without a blush, gowns that were positively animallike in their suggestiveness." "If the young girls who enter the ball rooms of our city with breasts and arms bared, and skirts cut short at the knees, would stop to consider where such styles originated, their cheeks would be suffused with the scarlet tinge of shame. "The women of certain districts in Paris knew the appeal the low-cut gown, tho sleeveless waist, and the knee length skirt, would make to the other sox. They were the ones to start this style in gowns which has been taken up by the' young women of our country. I wonder if the young girls of Ogden ever realized this fact. "Let a young woman be surprised by a visitor when she has not had a chance to finish dressing for the day, and she will. let out an abashed cry and hasten to cover her bare skin as she flees to another room Yet, the same young woman, in half tho clothes, will appear at a dance that IH very night, and feel perfectly at ease. M I It's a state of affairs our self-respect. ing oung girls would do well to H ponder over. Their opinions on styl M I might undergo a change." M |