FULL DRESS IN CHURCH.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 932, 27 February 1872, Page 3

FULL DRESS IN CHURCH.

We copy the following from the "Saturday Eeview :" People are generally supposed to go to church for devotion, but, if they do, devotion and vanity are twin sisters. Look at the number of pretty hands which find it absolutely necessary to take off their gloves, and which are always wandering up to the face in becoming gestures, and with the right curve. Or, if the hands are only mediocre, the rings are handsome, and diamonds sparkle in church as well as anywhere else. And although one vows to renounce the lusts of the world as well as the flesh, there is no use of having diamonds if one*s neighbors don't see them. Look too at the pretty faces which know so well the effect produced by a little paint and powder beneath a soft mask of thin white lace. Is this affair their best confession of «in? And, again, those elaborate toilets in which women come to pray for forgiveness and humility; are they for the honor of God? It strikes us that honor of God has very little to do with that formidable, and may be unpaid, milliner's bill ; but the admi- : ration of men and the envy of other women a great deal. The Pope is ! wise to make all ladies go to his reliI gious festivals in a uniform costume and in black. It narrows the margin of coquetry somewhat, if it does not altogether remove it. But dress ever was, and ever will be, as webs spread m the way of women's righteousness.