Masked women prohibited from entering saloons This Forgotten Day in Houston

More than a hundred years ago, Fat Tuesday followed a real bummer of a holiday: Party-Killer Monday.

You see, Houston's Chief of Police issued an order that no masked women shall be permitted to enter saloons during the Mardi Gras celebration, and if the order was violated, the guilty party, or should I say the guilty at the party, would be arrested and imprisoned, which is bad, especially if you were a woman who had given up breaking the law for Lent.

The police chief, or should I say, the fun police, said that he was prohibiting masked women from entering saloons in hopes of preventing any trouble. And, to use a word you might have heard a hundred years ago, "rowdyism" was also discouraged as much as possible. The good news, all "maskers" were allowed to roam the streets during Mardi Gras, but "disturbers" would be rounded up by the police.

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Now, police did have a reason for their abundance of caution. Two years earlier in 1908, one police officer killed another officer in a saloon after a long night of patrolling the Mardi Gras Ball. In fact, in 1909, the Mardi Gras Ball and all other public celebrations were cancelled. It wasn't all a bummer though, "maskers" could still revel in the streets.

Where do you like to celebrate Fat Tuesday in Houston? Tweet me Michael Callahan, @MCallahanTV using #ForgottenDayHOU.