A New Crusade.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 111, 18 April 1883, Page 2

A New Crusade.

v A great antibang, , Crusade " m Canada is announced jbyTthe American papers. "•Bang'^W (Pall Mall Budget) believe, is the. horridly expressive American word for the frizzly front that ladies wear. It appears that the Roman Catholic clergy of Canada hare been /lately alarmed j at y the progressive . frivolity and jextraordinar y dress of their flock, and haying communication, with Rome; have commenced energetic repressive T v measure3. , ._ *' Wearers of 1 dainty costumes; it seems^ f ateA tb f t^p declared sinners," and " exiravagauce m dress and tresses is to he' ruthlessly p»ut down." Already Bishop Lafleche, ■at ! Th,ree Rivers," .has launched 1 Ibis thunderbolt at; the" healis of his: fair sinners, and Bishop Fabre at Montreal, is about to do the same, the former, hfcwever, going so far as to deriounj^all light music. The'example ; h^mead to other congregations. A well-kn^7a : elder) of the! Church jit.MontreaVjhas expressed himself m the following words of wisdom i:—" There "such extravagance r in dress now«.a-days that we cahiiot tell : th'e'' difference (between mismaid." Theproftpects ofthe crusade at present are saidto bac.ea;» eel leaf ■ The !' bangs" are disappearing, and the " pull backs " are being lQpsenejJ. : After< the! success „;of , 4 j;he > experiment made on the corpus vile of CanadaV^ho knows bowsopn the. crusade may. extend to oiir snores ?/,'. \ '■''.' ';■'!• '"