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Show GOOD MANNERS AND GOOD ORDER.<br><br> If cleanliness is akin to godliness, politeness is akin to righteousness, and if a filthy man cannot be a godly man, an impolite person is certainly not a righteous one. Such thoughts as these have been suggested by conduct which we have frequently witnessed in public places, in Logan. For example, at a recent performance at the theatre, a young man sat immediately in front of us, with his young lady close beside him. As their interest in the play waxed deeper, he slipped his arm around her waist, and occasionally emphasized his appreciation of the incidents of the play by a squeeze. We have no doubt but that both of them were pure minded young people, of most innocent intentions; the trouble was that the swain had no better breeding than to hug his girl in public while she was too deficient in proper self respect and maidenly modesty to resent his familiarity. The rules of elegant [unreadable] society of Logan become elegant and refined.<br><br> We deem it our duty, also, to enter a protest against the disorder so frequently witnessed at entertainments in this city. At the theatre is always found a class of young fellows, occupying back seats who create great noise and confusion during the performance. They are not actually bad, by any means, but are simply surcharged with fun and nonsense, and go to the theatre [theater] for the purpose of letting off steam, as it were. Some means should be adopted to teach our youthful yoemanry good manners, and to keep them quiet during their stay in the temple of the Drama.<br><br> In this connection we wish to name an incident that illustrates another evil that should be corrected. During the performance at the theatre on Thursday evening last, a man who was intoxicated created a great deal of annoyance to the musicians and that portion of the audience in his immediate vicinity, by leaving his seat, moving about, conversing in drunken drivel to those near him, gesticulation, laughing &c. Once he seized a little boy, lifted him high off his seat, and then dropped on to one of the benches with great force. This freak of the drunken clown might have seriously hurt the child. Such pranks as these were commenced early in the evening, as were continued till the play was over with perfect immunity, and their perpetrator was not interfered with. The public who attend the theatre pay for an evening's entertainment, and have both a moral and legal right to be protected in the enjoyment of that for which they have paid, and if ladies and gentlemen who attend the theatre cannot be protected from annoyance and insults on the part of drunken men in the audience, serious culpability attaches somewhere. We call this Zion, and profess to be much in advance of the cities of the world, in many things, and especially n morals, but a theatre in Boston or New York, which tolerated the noise, disorder, and confusion frequently seen on the one here would be closed by legal process.<br><br> Of course ours is a frontier mountainous country, and due allowance should be made for the effect which our circumstances and surroundings inevitably have upon our society. But it is time that some radical improvements relating to good manners and good order in our midst should be introduced.<br><br> In what we have here said we mean no personal allusions to nor reflections whatsoever upon our peace officers, or the management of the theatre; the evil has a deeper broader foundation than neglect upon their part. We simply mean to advocate a much needed local? improvement and should feel derelict in our duty did we remain silent upon this subject which so greatly ?? agitation. |