Show A COMING GREAT QUESTION Boston is famous for making a fuss Even when it was the capital of a British colony it was given to making mak-ing a fuss over such matters as bovs coasting on the common or such matters mat-ters as tea and the llkej and all these fusses have been become historical At the present time some of the leading ladles of the Huh are making A fuss over the antitheatre hat ordinance i The theatres of Boston are noted for their excellent performances and when I one goes to see them he wants to see them and not merely to hear them I hence the antitheatre hat ordinance was nassed The ground of nrotcst is a sanitary I one In large measure The protestants declare that the ordinance is unnecessarily un-necessarily harsh which may or may not be so but they further declare de-clare that it subjects persons to embarrassing em-barrassing annoyances and compels them on the unreasonable complaint of some one to run the risk of illness o in removing the hat in a theatre and sitting with uncovered head The men do this and the additional Illness among them bn this acocunt has never beeen noticed To an opera a lady will go and not only sit with uncovered head but with very bare shoulders and never think of illness as a consequence conse-quence This theatre hat question bids fair to become a great Issue in various parts of the country I the breeding and good manners of a community are not up to the standard of civilization civiliza-tion that says that hats are not the proper thing in a theatre laws to enforce en-force such breeding and manners will not be very effective In this case a in all others public sentiment must be behind the law to give It a real force |