SOME one has interested himself in gathering statistics of those who attend the moving picture shows throughout the United States. He informs us that an average of 18,000,000 persons attend the theaters, of this class each day in the year. The amount paid for admission can not be below $1,350,000 a day. These figures are for the moving picture shows only, and do not include the regular theaters. This gives something of an idea of the amount that is spent day by day on pleasure. If everything exhibited in the moving picture show and on the stage were elevating and ennobling, it would not be so bad. But when it is considered that many of the most degrading things that the human mind can conceive are enacted, we get an index of the tendency of the time and the intensity of its degradations; for this item of theatergoing is only one among the many things which show that this age has gone mad over the pleasures that are mere follies instead of real joys. $500,000,000 a year is expended in the United States on drinks served at soda fountains. This expense would give a half million young people a university education, allowing each one of them a thousand dollars a year.