Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-12-15
4 MOST VULGAR HABIT.
Chicago Women up in Arms over Men
ExpectCrating.

Two new reforms have been added
to the work of the Chicago municipal
order league. Members of the league
will at once inaugurate movement
intended to mitigate, if not break up,
the habit of promiscuous expectoration
in street cars, theaters and other pub
lie places where women go. The other
evil they mean to attack is street
signs. They will not confine their
work to the merely suggestive and
vulgar, but will include the unsightly
affairs that so often offend the eye
Committees have been appointed to
ask the cooperation of street-car Off
Gals, realestate boards and others in
whose power the remedy lies.
About the filthy habit of expectorat-
ing said Miss Ada c. Sweet, Il sim
ply can't talk about it without feeling
ill. In no other country in the world
is this evil SO fixed upon the people
as in America. / think climate may
have something to do with it, but not
all.
I'VE intend to ask the officials of
the street-car lines to put up signs
forbidding it. Mr.. Yerkes did this a
few months ago and the evil has never
been SO bad on the north side since.
We believe that if this matter were
called to the minds of men, put proper
ly before them, that they would of
themselves stop it.
About the street Signs,' concluded
Miss Sweet, the ones which I am
opposed to are those where men are
pictured maltreating women. The
power of direct suggestion of criminal
action to the mind through these pic
lures is incalculable. Not to the moral
ly strong but to cranks and to the
young whose minds are plastic These
are the ones to be protected A man
choking woman or beating a woman
or children with club, or one man
tying another to a railroad track or
running him through a saw-mill-all
these things are unsightly and harm
full | would make every advance man
for theatrical shows go to the proper
authorities to exhibit the paper which
he expects to put upon the sign-boards
in this city"
Mrs. William B. Keene, who is a
! prime mover in these reforms, said of
the street signs: Zone would think
j Chicago a big, overgrown town to see
the big advertising signs hoisted on
every vacant lot. They are unsgihtly,
/ they obStruct the view of many a
handsome residence and mar the beau
ty of the city. We are going to boycott
every baking powder firm and patent
medicine outfit which f1aunts itself in
! our faces in such IN obtusiye man
ner. The real-estate board expressed
great sympathy with this movement
some time ago and now we are going
to wait upon it to see if it will mani
fest its interest in some tangible way
LAS to the horrible, horrible habit
of expectorating in street cars and
theaters~ it is unhealthy as well as
loathsoEle, and now that the cars and
theaters are heated it is a thousand
times worse than before. We are going
| to wait upon MIR. Ailer ton and Mr.
Yerkes, or rather we hope to influence
them through Mrs. Allerton and Mrs
Yerkes. We have talked with the
steet-car conductors, and they say
they would be eager to put men of
the cars who showed themselves sc
unfit for human society.
Zone night last week / sat in one
Of the finest theaters in the city next
to man who had made a disgusting
pool between his feet. l looked al
the handsomely dressed woman in thai
row who must pass out over that
place and it made me sick. Men are
put out of theaters for other unbecom
ing conduct, why not this?"
Mrs. w. HI. Duncanson. another
member Of the league, is enthusiastic
over the new features Of it's work
She repeated the arguments agains
the two evils given by Miss Sweet an(
Mrs. Keene.
Splitting on the floor has always
been a source Of great annoyance tt
sreet-car men, but they say they arr
powerless to prevent it. The nortl
side company attempted with more
or less success to shame it's patrons ou
of the habit by displaying signs il
the cars. Conductors say that the hab
it is source of great annoyance t.
them, but they do not know how i
can be stopped. Ladies appeal to then
to compel men to observe ordinar.
amenities. Many are made SO sicl
that they are compelled to leave thu
car, but the conductors say that the.
are powerless.
A number Of west side conductor
were interviewed on the subject las
night and asked for opinions as t.
how the habit might be stopped.
Il would suggest that tobacco chew
ers be compelled to ride outside" sait
one. Another suggested that tobacco
chewing in public conveyance be mad
misdemeanor punishable by fine. An
other thought that men might b.
: shamed out of the habit if the ladie
would forego formalities and speal
to them about it, and still anothe
recommended that men who did no
; use tobacco take the law into thei
own hands and forcibly eject any NAL
who so far forgot the rules of publ
decency as to persist in a practice Oh
it's face Objectionable to all cleanl,
persons.
SHOOTING A LION.
Then from behind the camel there