| Show teh th vulgar use of the opera glass int t ake ta theatre ki in salt lake city kim MISERS mi EDITORS is ia never go 0 conspicuous as m in the abuse of some same practice or custom originating irr in polite society soei ety mid d there confined rea s a aud and proper limits but which having become a fashion is carried by the fie vain and empty beaded to such extremes as to become in abl degree g ree ridiculous and offensive As an I 1 illustration allow mo me to refer your readers to the use of the opera gla glass sil in the theatre of salt lake city this instrument was originally introduced in public to enable loose who acre were short Eight sighted ed or otherwise defective ve in vision from old age and ther causes e to see more distinctly the and objects upon fhe stage one who visits a theatre or opera goes there to ta see and hear bear the actors or ar singers and to witness the scenes presented i wh when en his natural al vision is not sufficiently clear etc I 1 r ind aad strong to enable him to to acell tj bitely dischi n objects object on the stage the asic r aids for this purpose may if p allya allyane there may ve IM IV special mal occasions ecca such juch as awe from th the e presence ence oe of distinguished penona when the moderate we me of oc takk abw instrument by such person fen fec sch purpose if not strictly I 1 within the bulwa of good breading my may IB 60 PAo pardonable but for the na ansite te leveling of glasses upon each other U by ft salt lake city audience and tho the ion long impudent ridicule ridicule ae and 1 I might add laero ire iless quizzing 9 to which each is ia xi in ia subjected admit of no derena in iho not act and is in only excusable in of ro retaliation this practice as NV during every performance at the 1 I theatre in our city is as ne near ar the perfection om of fashionable vulgarity as it is possible for fol vain and wel to attain staring of every kind is so dia res that it is prohibited by all maew upon uon polite politeness new as arid and vulgar in tha extreme but when I 1 tad and staring reduced to a system 28 it is by the abe practice to which I 1 refer and more direct and co nicu abye yae us usi use e of the opera gimis it bee pm scalp simply ly insult no man pos coming aw the first idea dl of gentility would think it polite to direct attention to lo a ferwn in an audience by pointing his bia finger to level upon another a glaw is im MAII low excusable excitable and the person so pointed out and quizzed is but a few foot fraai the person who uses the glass 11 that ie ia susceptible of no apology or explanation which nt greatly dalp or entirely detrey hie abe character of its ita perpetrator as a gentleman 1 VIATOR |
