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are not by any means always or usually the 

 more fashionable or popular theatres. 



This matter of enforcing reasonable cleanli- 

 ness in theatres and other places of assembly 

 rests, as all other matters of sanitary reform 

 ultimately do, with the people themselves. So 

 long as the patrons of filthy theatres, either 

 fashionable or not, permit themselves to remain 

 the victims of ignorance or carelessness or cu- 

 pidity the managers of theatres will doubtless 

 continue to do just what they have been doing 

 and are doing, no matter what in their prac- 

 tices is shown to be dangerous. 



Whoever has had occasion to visit the court- 

 rooms in the city of New York and similar 

 conditions are widely prevalent in court-rooms 

 as well as legislative halls elsewhere in this 

 land cannot fail to have been impressed with 

 the general filthiness and dustiness and stuffi- 

 ness which is so pronounced. With the evils 

 which vitiated air causes all are more or less 

 familiar, but to these evils even the large intel- 

 ligence of the members of the legal profession 

 usually supinely submits. That poisoned dust 

 should be added to the burden simply because 



