Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — The Theater Fool. [ARTICLE]

The Theater Fool.

The fool sometimes goes to the theater, and as often as he does he falls to wondering at what he sees and hears. People are supposed to go and see and hear the play. They may not care for it after all, sometimes because it is not worth caring for, and frequently because they are incapable of appreciating what is beautiful and good. But what right have these people, in either case, to disturb others, who also go to see and hear, who have paid their money for their privilege, and who are entitled to it? How can they be so careless of the rights of others? And yet they are—for you hardly sit through a performance without being disturbed by the idiotic conversation of some ol your neighbors. The papers have pitched into this nuisance time and again, but there are evidently many people who go to theaters who do not read the papers.— Chaff.