| Show BAD HABITS THE tue THEATRE AND THE tabernacle tire TIIE habit of whistling and making unseemly noises in the theatre is a nuisance which should be abated if not by the passage of a city ordinance by the expulsion of the ol fenders from the building writing concerning it in the papers will not remedy it only so far aa as such writing will influence ushers doorkeepers and grown own persons sitting near those who 1 gus thus offend to take the matter in hand for it is done by boys who w ho presume we jp resume reaume do no not toften often read the papers and whose parents are not with them at the time if the regulation against whistling hooting and making unseemly noises were en enforced forced as vigorously in the ircle irele next the cel cei ceiling ling as us it should be for a week or two the matter would be settled and the boys boya would atop making maling such noises A little patience in looking closely after them a plain caution when any of them offend and expulsion should the caution not prove sufficient would remedy the whole thing in a few nights we nye have a theatre of which we may feel justly proud citizens can take their friends there and sit through a performance with entire satisfaction so far as the building the scenery and the playing are concerned the buil building dingis is unequalled unequal led probably by any west wesl of i new york the scenery and costumes are not excelled in finish in elegance and tarlet varlet variety in any theatre in the united rt stateny states and our company would rank t high as a stock company in in any of the theo eastern cities but we have been dist gusted austed with and ashamed of the whistling and other noises which we have sometimes heard in our theatre from rude and thoughtless persons pally boys llo hlo who lio take liberties there that they would not dream of indulging in elsewhere there is great necessity for a reform in thi smatter such noises should be stopped the clapping of A hands isban enough under any circum stances but the stamping of feet the yelling and the whistling are ble and should not be tolerated public opinion would justify ushers j ers era or the police in speedily ejecting persons who make themselves obnoxious by making these noises if after they are told tov discontinue to ethem nhem ahem tt hem they will not refrain ic it ma may y if ba be Leb necessary essary to make some few examples at first to put a stop to this annoyance but when it ia is once onee under g stood tood that such things thing swill will not be beber permitted permit mit ted ibb point is gamed and good bedei 6 der can afterwards be easily maintained we speak the minds of our plu piu zens generally when we say that it will bes hes bea be a great ratification gratification bothem to them and will heighten the tho enjoyment of their visits to the theatre very tery much if such a regulation were to ba enforced it can ead be and with but little trouble troubie tr eubie euble lei lel and we hope some efficient measures will be taken wien to garry carry it out suba bet there is an other othel practice ia ls breque fre que antly in lu bulged in at our out sunday meetings for worship that we may with propriety allude to it is the habit I 1 which some men have of sitting in I 1 the be meetings gg at M gith aith with their hats on when our temple is completed a respect will be exacted for it from those who gho enter therein that m many a ny will scarcely be prepared to render de i it will come so mu much cli ell in contact fj with their present habits we may think there is a great deal of humbug about the formal reverence which many sects pay to the buildings in which they assemble on the sabbath day but we should not lun itin to the opposite extreme and be irreverent too much care cannot be taken in fostering the feelings of reverence in the breasts of our children ifor nor for everything holy and all that is connected with the of god and a lesson that should be taught every boy is that when he enters a place of worship he should take off his hat in fact every well bred child will do it when he enters into a neighbors house but we frequently see young men stalk into our tabernacle on a sunday with as much carelessness as they would into a store and sit down with their hats an and if service has commenced probably sit without removing them while they remain we never see such conduct without blushing for them and their parents no person who sees them can conclude that they are anything but ill bred or irreverent persons and a teacher would do them a real service by reminding them that they are in a place of worship there are others who sit with their weir hats on until the meeting is called to order then they remove them during cold weather some may do this because of the cold but we submit whether a handkerchief over the tho head would not answer the purpose equally well and be a better example to the young who naturally imitate the conduct of those who are older than themselves we sincerely hope that this bad habit will be discarded w |
