SOCIAL PURITY.
PROBLEM NOVEL CONDEMNED. By TolazraDh—Press Association—Ooryileht ■ . New York, November 11. Tho Social Purity Congress at Minneapolis has denounced the modern problem novel as the chief cause of immorality, declaring that it led a certain class of people to imitate the experiences recorded therein.
Dances, including tho "Bunny Hug," "Turkey Trot," and "Tango," are also declared to ho dangerous to social morals.
DIVORCE LAWS: "TRIAL MARRIAGES." • (Rec. November 12, 10.55 p.m.) New York, November 12. The Social Purity Congress at Minneapolis, discussed the American dirorco. laws, which Bishop M'Cormack denounced as being really a system of "trial marriages," if not actual polygamy. Diyovco was formerly considered shameful, but in America was now almost respectacle. Msn and women boasted of tho number of their marriages.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1905, 13 November 1913, Page 7
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125SOCIAL PURITY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1905, 13 November 1913, Page 7
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