The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15
HERE AND THERE.

The war on theatre hats is making
some progress in the cities. While at
the Metropolitan. in St. Paul re-
Gently, we noticed that many of the
ladies in the parquet removed their
hats Immediately on being seated,
holding them in their laps during the
performance, much to the relief OF
those who sat behind them and who
had paid to see the performance and
not the hats.
The board of aldermen of Chicago
on Wednesday night of this week
passed the following ordinance bear
ing upon this subject:
Be it ordained by the city council of
the city of Chicago:
Section l. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation, own
ing or controlling any theatre or
other place of amusement, or for any
,uanager thereof, to permit or tolerate
the wearing of any hat or other head
gear by any person while in the thea
performance or during the rendition
of any programme on the stage or
platform.
Sec. 2. Any proprietor or manager
of any theatre or other place of
amusement who shall refuse to en-
force the provisions of section o. of
this ordinance shall be deemed guilty
of a violation thereof, and shall be
tu of
ten (S1O) dollars, nor more than
twenty-five 1921 dollars for each Of
Tense, and the permitting or tOlerat-
ing the wearing of each hat during
the progress of the programme or per-
Torrance shall constitute distinct
and separate offenSe.
Sec. 3. This ordinance shall be in
force from and after it's passage.
"I'm onto you," the mud pool cried
To the trousers it had dotted.
'Ah, yes, "Lhe trousers sadly sighed;
II see you have me spotted"
L. A. w. Bulletin.
In trial recently made to de-
termine how long time was neces-
cary to convert the wood of stand
ing tree into a printed newspaper, it
appears that the feat was accomp-
lished in two hours and twenty-five
minutes. The manufacture of the
tree into paper took one hour and
fifty-nine minutes, and the remainder
of the time was consumed in carry
ing the paper two and one-half miles
to printing Office and printing the
same.
An analysis on 1900 accident
policies on which benefits were paid
shows 53l persons injured by falls on
pavements, 243 by carriages or wagons,
70 by horse kicks or bites, and Al by
horseback riding, III were cut with
edge tools or glass, 90 were hurt by
having weights fall on them, and 76
were hurt in bicycle accidents, while
y were hurt by falling down stairs.
"The secret of bad complexion"
said well known physician recently,
sis a bad digestion, and we generally
trace that to a bad liver. One Of the
best remedies for sluggish liver is
cheap and pleasant. Dieting is the
secret of the cure. The best liver
regulator for persons of sedentary
habits-and those are the ones whose
compilations are muddy-is to be
found in apples, eaten baked if they
are not we'll digested when eaten raw.
1 attended the pupils at well known
boarding school, aud among them was
country girl whose complexion was
the envy of all her associates. L
found that she was very light eater
at her meals, but she had a peculiar
custom of taking plate of apples to
her room at night and eating them
| slowly as she studied her lessons.
This was her regular practice. Some
of the other girls in the Institution
took it up, and l know, as result Of
my personal Investigation, that the
apple eating girls had the best COM
plexion Of in any the school, Life
and Health.