Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1915 — Needless Interruptions. [ARTICLE]

Needless Interruptions.

A New Yorker writes the Times to protest against a habit he says metropolitan women have of knitting at concerts. Recently, he declares, ho was obliged to sit near a knitter and the click of her busy needles disturbed him. Here is a serious issue. One has seen a woman, returning from market, shelling her beans on the street car. There could be no objection to her plucking a holiday goose under the same circumstances, provided she didn’t scatter feathers on the floor. Bnt knitting at a concert Is different A knitting needle obbligato to u harp selection might lack something of the ideal One might better take a basket of corn to husk, or an armful of stockings to darn. Almost any concert enthusiast wifi agree with the Times complainant. II the music is not to one's liking it to bettor to exchange whispered etoriee with one’s neighbor than to disturb