Religion: Catholic Bathing

The Vatican last week issued the following summer suggestions (commands) to its communicants:

Women should not wear knitted bathing suits of the male style.

Bathing suits of both sexes should cover the body decorously.

Bath houses, except for family use, should rigidly separate the sexes.

Dancing in bathing suits or pajamas should be forbidden.

A morality commission should be posted at every beach and its vicinity to enforce such moral rules.

These rules should be enforced along river banks as well as at organized pleasure beaches.

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