NUISANCES IN THEATRES Utah is not the only place where the antihigh theatre hat sentiment has been strong It has invaded the east as well as the west It has been rampant ram-pant in Baltimore staid Baltimore and the first branch of the city council of that place passed such an ordinance as would abate the nuisance but it was killed in the second branch Public sentiment itself killed it for there were no indignation meetings held by the ladles The Sun of that city says the ladles simply called their vassals before be-fore them and quietly informed them that this attack upon womens rights must be crushed And it was The Sun goes on to say that it was suggested sug-gested that the penalties provided for the violation of the proposed ordinance should have been directed not against the offending person but against the j toIi offending hat and that hats exceeding I exceed-ing the prescribed height should have been made liable to confiscation and given to the informer calling attention I to the matter that fine or imprisonment imprison-ment could have no terrors for the woman who could still adorn her martyrdom mar-tyrdom with the millinery halo for I the maintenance of which she suf I fered but if the penalty were the seizure seiz-ure of her love of a bonnet and its i possible bestowal upon some other woman particularly upon someone who was a persona non grata to her the probability is that high hats would disappear as if by magic as soon as I their owners entered the theatre This penalty however says the Sun might come in conflict with the constitutional con-stitutional prohibition of cruel and unusual un-usual punishments After all it maybe may-be better for the poor weak man not to attempt to dictate to the ladies in I the matter of dress but to throw film self upon their mercy and trust to their clemency for the redress of the highhat grievance Dear girls dc I stop wearing such hideous things at the theatre But there are other nuisances in connection with theatregoing Since the passage of the antihigh theatre hat law we have heard a lady of prominent promi-nent social position say that the going go-ing out between the acts to see a friend was a much greater nuisance than the high hat The other night at a theatrical performance she was compelled to rise five times to let a couple of gentlemen pass out and several times they came back after I the curtain had risen It was her opinion that if high hats were a proper subject of legislation so was this nuisance nui-sance There was no answering her argument Let this nuisance be abated by legislative action as well as the high hat nuisance