People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — The Balb-Heads’ Treat. [ARTICLE]

The Balb-Heads’ Treat.

Wednesda/ evening Small hand bills were quietly distributed to the men on the street bearing the following inscription. “To-night, For Men Only. Keep it quiet. The dish for bald-heads. French high kickers, Duncan Clark’s female minstrels. Just to please the boys.” And it is needless to say the boys were there, young boys, middle aged boys, men of families, bachelors and plent}’ of bald-heads and even the editor of a Rensselaer paper. No women were admitted. The performance on the part of the men actors was such as. should' have brought the blush of shame to ever/person present, but had exactly the opposite effect, as every dirty sally made by the performers was greeted with rounds of applause by the audience. Only once was any anxiety feft by those present and that was when a woman appealed at the door and in angry tones demanded admittance, claiming that her husband was inside, and that he should go home with her. The house was in confusion and the married men endeavored to hide their faces, but were very much relieved when they discovered it to be a joke of the troupe, led by one of the female members, heavily veiled. Such a performance would not be permitted in such a tough place as the Park theater, at Chicago, and it is to be hoped that no more such performances will be permitted in the opera house or any other place in Rensselaer. if for no other reason than to prevent the pollution of the young boys from the age of ten to sixteen who were present. There is certainly a field for reform, when men who are regarded as our best citizens and church members leave their wives and children and gluttenly feast upon the scenes of Wednesday evening.