Show I BIG HATS AT THEATRES The rue ma mayor or and city council of Boston have r r r- dred by or ordinance the removal of ladies ladies' hats in inal al all public lUbliC places A New York paper doubts the legality 1 of this thinks we are getting too many laws and asks if the hat is to fo foo o e regulated by ordinance or or- why not the cut of bodices the abolishing OL ot untimely r applause etc A simple rule ought to g govern verll No man or woman woman wom worn an has mis a right to annoy a dozen other men or wom en When a woman or oro r set Of f wom women n persist in inthis inthis inthis this then the ordinance that stops them is not out of place If one of these days das the ladies of Bos- Bos become so esthetic as to determine that when they app appear ar at public places they will go iu in the vestments of the classic Aphrodite the public may not kick but theatre managers will have good grounds for asking for a restraining order with a citation to appear in court and nd show cause why the thc order should not be made a perpetual injunction the custom being calculated to distract peoples people's attention attention attention at at- from the other performance stage As for untimely applause there is no cure for that except education It does not come through carelessness of the rights or the pleasure of othe others s it does not come come through love of display there is 11 no m. 1 motive real or supposed Ruben merely thinks that he is js s pleased and wants to holler There are many other annoyances which cannot be bo stopped One is the young oung man who attended the previous evening who has brought his best girl and and persists in telling her what to l look ok for next Another is the loud oud whisperer who in the midst of exquisite music tells her girl companion i that she always cuts her skirts skirt bias rather than gor- gor or that Eliza Jane across the theatre need not put on airs that she knows the whole family and they are are not as well bred as as they might be But the big hAt j in the theatre has not one redeeming feature We wonder that an ordinance is needed in Boston fo repress it We presume it is because the rest of the country voluntarily suppressed them long long ago and the idea of Boston not originating the practice has kept the hat in evidence until the thea authorities have had to interpose It is said th the railroad officials in Germany when a modern fashionable fash lash i I able ladys lady's hat is presented for transportation mark ar it an automobile wheel and send it to the baggage baggage baggage bag bag- gage car We have long wondered that theatre n managers n have not abolished the big hat by making making mak mak- ing ingan an extra charge of a full price ticket to to any any lad lady ady wearing the aeroplane t hat during a perform perform- ance anee |