PARIS, Dec. 11. -Cardinal Amette's pastoral letter denouncing modern fashions has led to the adoption of a very firm attitude on the part of the clergy. One priest has gone so far as to post a notice on his church door to the effect that no women will be allowed to attend service in the church whose dresses are cut low in the neck, and whose skirts do not reach at least to their ankles.
Another priest refused to conduct the marriage service for a bride whose dress, in his opinion, showed too great a length of silk stocking, and which was cut in such a way "as possibly to make it suitable for evening wear, but certainly not fitted for a church."
.lcIdeas change: no one today would understand the pastor's objection to what sound like very tame dresses.
