Use of mirrors, which a London munition works manager has restricted to ten minutes a day, has never been without opponents, says an English exchange. A seventeenth-century divine, denouncing this among ■ other worldly vanities, declared that by use of a mirror women fell into deadly sin, “for to look in the glass is to, make an image, and to do that image honour is idolatry.” Such prejudice on religious grounds lingers in very different quarters from munition works, for mirrors are forbidden in most nunneries and also among some very strict sects of Protestants. W. H. Lecky, when in Holland in 1893, was surprised to find that exclusion of all mirrors from the home was a religious tenet, rigidly adhered to, in some of the villages around the Zuyder Zee.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 3
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