HATS OFF IN CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 944, 11 October 1910, Page 5

HATS OFF IN CHURCH.

; AJPPEAL TO LADIES. ; /I'lio innovation pf ladies taking their hats, off during a- religious' service was introduced at the Port Adelaide Congregational \ Church ton a recent,: Sunday .evening. - On'.the previous Sunday (says an< Australian: exohange) the pastor, the Bev.- Lionel B. Fletcher, said several people had stated. fjhnt they had been unable to see him as they sat together in the pews, on account of- the hats of the ladies. He added that he would bo pleased if the. ladies coultl malco it a | practice to remove thoir hats for the sermon in the evening : when the attendances were, crowded/. At the conclusion of Mr. Fletcher's remarks, one. lady re-, moved her headgear, but none of the others followed the example. During .'tho week the matter 1 was thei snbjoct of much discussion, and. there was considerable curiosity as to whether the feminine, adherents would respond to the invitation the . following Sunday. Early in tlio - service a . few ladies unpinned their hats, and took them, off, and prior to the sermon 'others,' up to about one-third of those Resent, acted similarly. 'A divided choir met the, eye, the contralto portioii being minus their hats, while tho soprano sisters (■emairied in full head-dress. No referenco to the question of hats was made ..from the pulpit. -: ' . ' •:!.