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Show 1 uu CLERGY OPENS FIGHT ON WOMEN'S DRESS RIO JANEIRO, Feb. 28. A cam-paign cam-paign against prevailing modes in feminine fem-inine attire in large cities of Brazil has been inaugurated by the Catholic clergy. One bishop recently advised his cler gy to deny communion to those who presented themselves unsuitably at tired, while an archbishop has made the exaggeration of fashions the subject sub-ject of n pastoral letter. Monsignor Maximiano Leite, the vicar-general, declared there was an excess of nudity in feminine garments profoundly dangerous to morals. Th heot of the climate, he said, was madi the i rolext for lamentable excesses. X |