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•®jF TH? STORY OF A WOMAHS HUNT FOR A MAN.
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No. 56—Stirred Depths
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♦ Ton cannot turn your back ♦
♦ upon a trouble. If yon do it ♦
•e come* rashing from behind over ♦
♦ your bead. ♦
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r the end of my weed's visit with |
Mrs. Henderson, Mr. ColbjCs sis- |
ter. I left heY home defiant and '
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unhappy. I had looked forward to these |
few days with such nigh hopes. My i
hopes had dashed, to earth. When
Mrs. Henderson asked me to come to
stop with her I bad fancied it was be
cause Mr. Colby was in love with me;
that his sister for this reason was anx
■ious to please me. As it turned out. Mr. ;
Colby did not come into the country at '
all while I was at his sister's place. His i
name was scarcely mentioned between
us.
And during the early part of the
week most of Mrs. Henderson's guests
had been women; women who spoke
a strange language to me. who were
interested in •.well-written and well
acted plays, who seemed to have read
books of which I had never heard,
who spoke intimately and at length
of the various picture galleries, out
door sports, and gardening. If their
ktnc Os conversation bad not been so
eutliely new to me X think I would
have been bored.
I was defiant because I was re
sopred that I would not let anybody
nay I “was not just as good as any
other girt” I was unhappy because
some depth of decency, hitherto unsus
pected. bad been stirred in me.
I had caught a glimpse of something
-'miner and better than, the life I
had led. Had there been some one to
whom I could have turned in my trou
ble I think I might have been able to
struggle forward toward the light I had
seen. But as it was I returned to my
home and a mother who displayed but a
careless, half-beamed Interest in me. It
was but natural jhat I should plunge
at once into my old gayeties.
The night I returned June called me
up and asked me to dtne with him. 'And,
although before I had gone away I had
resolved never to see hiifi again, because
I realized our romance was at a crucial
point. I- promptly accepted his invita
tion. I even permitted him that first
eight to put a hundred dollars in my
pocketbook to buy some "prettiee." as he
expressed IL In the taxi, as we re
turned hornet his arms were once more
about me as they used to be.
“Say. Di.” he whispered close to
my cheek. “When are you going to
give tn and be my little girl ? I’ve
massed you awfully this last week. We
can't go on like this forever, you know.
You can see it’s got to come sooner
or later-, can’t you?"
'in the darkness of the vehicle as we
rolled along I shut my eyes and tried
to think.
“Give me a Ifttle while longer, June."
I begged. "I don’t know what to do.
Please let me think It over.”
His answer was a kiss.
No. 57 —Hurt Pride
e- Vanity distorts a girl’s views ♦
of life more than any other qual- ♦
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OW began a very brief ypan of
feverish gayety for me. I had
visited Mrs. Henderson, Mr. Col-
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DVs sister, in her home and had tried
*to be like the other girls and women
who were her house guests. In spite
of <ny efforts, the difference between
ufl had been forced upon me. I had
begun to realize that “to be a lady”
is not the easiest task in the world.
One may not fall into the position
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well-dressed. • quiet women whom 1
had s? envied was each busy in her
own way justifying her existence.
Briefly, as H had been put to me,
they "worked.” And in this 1 was
unwilling to follow them. 1 hated the
very look of real labor. Perhaps I
had only longed to be like these women
because I fancied theirs were lives of
ease. But once 1 had been thrown among
| them, into • their companionship, some
. better instinct had been aroused in me,
too. Although I was not as yet rehdy
to undertake the burdens and responsi
| bilities of a fuller life, I had caught
i just enough of a glifnpse of something
better to be unhappy with that which I
had.
Accordingly. I plunged even more fe
verishly into my life of gayety. in
hopes of stifling the still, small voice
of conscience, which was speaking to
mu for the first time. For nights X
danced madly in the gay restaurants
of the city with June and his friends.
1 bought several new evening dresses
with the money my admirer gave me.
I told myself I was well rid of the
stodgy women with whom I had be
come acquainted at Mrs. Henderson's.
Then one night my gayly-colored bal
loon of joy burst in midair. I saw
Mr. Colby, Mrs. Henderson’s brother,
seated at a table across the restau
rant where I was dining with June and
several others. At once I waved my
hand to him gayly. I expected, of
course, that he would rush to join us,
ply me with questions about the sort of
time I had had at his sister's. I scarcely
could believe my own eyes when he
nodded pleasantly and went on eating
his dinner.
For a while my hurt pride made my
laughter the louder. I pretended to be
absorbed In my companions. But my
glance from time to time stole in Mr.
Colby's direction. At last I saw him
rise from his plaoa He did not even
do me the honor of deliberately avoid
ing me; instead he sauntered down* the
aisle of tables, passed me so close
I could have touched him with my
hand, but did not pause. Again he
was gone. The lights in the room grew
dim; the mirth about me sounded hol
low. I felt as though this man had
given me my chance for better things,
and I had thrown it aside too lightly.
It seemed to me that I must be beneath
his contempt for him to be able thus
carelessly to pass me by.
Then vanity came to my assistance.
It whispered to me that perhaps he
was jealous, jealous of June! The
very coldness of his manner might be
an indication of his real interest in
me. And as I thought this seemed to
me a reasonable solution of his treat
ment- I could scarcely wait for the
following morning to telephone to him.
The answer came back over the wire
that “Mr. Colby was engaged. Could I
call him up later?" Again I told myself
these were but the actions of a man who
cared so much he could not bear to see
me in the company of another. I resolv
ed to write to him. Indeed. I did indite a
very bumble and sweet little nota tell
ing Mr. Colby how happy I had been
during my visit with his sister, and
asking him if he would not come to see
me.
Days passed and I received no an
swer. The colder I felt Mr. Colby’s
manner to be toward me the more de
sirable he seemed. Now all the stub
bornness in me had been aroused. I
was very sure of my charms. I felt
certain that if once I could make this
man come to see me I also could make
him forgive me anything. But ap
parently he was determined not to make
the first advance. Very well, then, I
would do so. I knew that Mr. Colby
had bachelor quarters. I resolved to call
upon him.
No. 58—The Pursuit
♦ XK>ve is the one free thing in ♦
♦ the world. If you can capture, ♦
♦ buy it, or sell it, it is not love. ♦
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O at 8 o'clock on the following
night I put on an evening dress
and went to call on Mr. Colby. Os
course, I did not tell my mother where
I was going. Perhaps she did not ask.
I don’t remember. My incomings and
outgoings were never a matter of vast
import to her. anyway. Now, like most
women who eat arid drink too much,
and take too little exercise, she passed
her days and evenings in practically a
comatose condition. Doubtless, she no
ticed that I had plenty of pretty gowns
>nd plenty of invitations to parties,
he could assume that I was popular,
hat was all my mother cared about.
So, on the evening of which I write,
avoided the sitting room, in which
knew she was probably reading the
.cning papers, went down the hall and
it to the taxi which awaited me. 1
ad chosen 8 o’clock as the right time
for my call. I had figured, and more
or less rightly, thaj Mr. Colby at that
hour would have finished his dinner,
and if he were going to any party in
the evening would not yet have started
for It. But almost I lost my courage
when the taxi drew up before the house
where Mr. Colby has his rooms. There
was about it an atmosphere of quiet
elegance which was disconcerting to me.
I somehow felt it was unusual for
young women unchaperoned to pass the
sacred portals of this bachelor abode.
But I nerved myself for the ordeal.
Not watting to be announced, I stepped
into the elevator and told the man upon
whom I wished to call. In another In
stant a valet had opened the door and
1 was in Mr ■Colby’s sitting room. Ap
parently I had gauged my time cor
rectly. The man I wished to see was
comfortably ensconced beside a small
table which held his after-dinner coffee
and his cigarettes. He was reading. But
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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1917.
the soft rustle of my skirts caused hint
to put his book down at once. He rose
to his feet. Complete amazement was
pictured on his face. Then he recovered
himself and spoke to me courteously.
"Why, this is a very pleasant sur
prise.- ’ he said. “To what do 1 owe the
honor?” And with a nod he dismissed
his man servant.
T)h!” I cried, ’’You don’t mind my
coming? I couldn't help it! I phoned to
you and wrote and you never answered!
I did so want to see you!” •
“Did you?” asked Mr. Colby, “I’m
sure I didn’t realize it was anything
important. What's the trouble?”
This reception was scarcely what 1
had expected. You remember I had
made up my mind this man was in love
i with me. What else could his interest
, mean? 1 thought that later, when he
had seen me in the company of June,
and had bowed to me so casually, it was
because he was jealous. And, naturally,’
the more he avoided me the more had
1 felt he was the most desirable of my
admirers. In consequence, my pursuit.
But now the cooL, commonplaeeness
of Mr. Colby’s greeting was scarcely
in the picture with what I had felt to
be his emotions. I had imagined he
would be almost overcome by my dar
ing and generosity in thus seeking him.
Instead it was all too plain he was a
little bored and politely puzzled. There
was a pause as we each more fully di
vined the other’s thoughts. It was I
who spoke firsL In my bewilderment
and hurt pride, the image that had been
in the back of my brain leaped to iny
lips.
“Why, you don’t care for me at all!”
I stammered.
Mr. Colby flushed a little.
“Well. I wouldn’t put It exactly that
way,” he said. “But if you mean you
thought I was in love with you per
haps it would be better for me to tell
>Oll the truth. I am not in the least,
you know. I like you awfully. Di, but
I don’t care for you that way.”
"Then why did you hg.ve me meet
your sister and all thatr’ I cried.
“What is this?” said Mr. Colby. Why
have you come to my rooms?”
No. 59—“ We’ll See”
♦ A girl must leeXn that life ♦
♦ gives her nothing. It pays her ♦
♦ a wage according to her work. ♦
FOR a moment or two I think Mr.
Colby actually believed the worst
of me. That is. that I was try
ing to pretend I had thought he was
in love with me and that he had caused
me to care for him on false pretenses.
In short, that I was bent upon* what
would practically be blackmail. But I
had not fallen so low. Such a thought
had not even crossed my mind. So
now, when he demanded to know with
a sudden new streak of coldness in his
voice “why I had come to his rooms?”
I answered him telling the truth.
”1 wanted to see you,” I said, “and
you didn’t answer my notes nor my
telephone."
“Why did you particularly want to
see me?” Mr. Colby asked curiously.
I realized he was angry. I felt in
stinctively that he was not the sort of
man with, whom I would care to quarrel.
I would certainly get the worst of it.
I wished I had not come. It seemed to
me best to tell him what I had really
felt. To go as quickly as possible.
“I thought." I told him honestly,
"that you cared for me a little, or you
’would not have asked your sister to
take me with her for a week. I r.eally
do like you lots better than June. When
I came back from the country and you
did not come to see me I had to go out
a lot with June. But I was just hoping
that you would ask me.”
Mr. Colby paused for a moment be
fore he answered.
“It’s pretty hard," he sajd finally, "to
get the point of vieyv of girls of your
kind. Di. For example, I can’t help
asking why you had to go out with
June. I think there is no law in ex
istence that could make you do so. When
I suggested to Cora that she take you
with her for a week it was because I
thought you had better stuff in you
than most young women of your kind.
You complained you were ‘lonely* be
cause nice girls, as you say, would not
'be friends with you.’ My dear, at my
sister’s you had your chance. What
did you do?”
The color came hot in my face and
I could "not meet Mr. Colby’s eyes. I
fidgeted in my chair.
“If you don’t know what you did,”
Mr. Colby continued, when the silence
had become uncomfortable, "I’ll tell you.
Di. Instead of making friends with a
couple of awfully nice girls who were
out at my sister’s, you promptly struck
up a swift and fervent flirtation with
one of Cora’s house guests. She /told
me afterward she tried to warn you off.
But she said that she did not feel she
had any authority actually to forbid
your doing anything. She tells me on
the first night of Mr. Adams’ arrival
you went out in the garden with him
and stayed for hours, instead of remain
ing with the others to dance. My dear,
apparently that sort of thing is in you.
you are a chump!”
“I—I—” I began to stammer.
Mr. Colby stopped me with a ges
ture.
”1 don’t suppose it's your fault. Di,”
he said. “It’s the way you are made.
That’s aIL And it’s all in the day's
work. Perhaps I was wrong to try
to give yon ideals that would only
make you uncomfortable were you to
try to live up to them. But only this
I want to make clear, since apparently
you have misunderstood. I did not have
you asked out to my sister's place be
cause I am the least in love with you.
My interest in you was exactly like
Cora’s. It seemed to me if you were
really a girl fighting against a force
that was too hard for her we both of
us. or either of.us, should give you a
helping hand. But it appears that if
you fight at all against your environ
ment you do it in a very half-hearted
way. I don't think there is anything
to be gained by going any further into
the matter.”
The tears had crowded to my eyes as
Mr. Colby talked to me. He was stab
bing my heart. And for the first time,
I think, it was my heart that was hurt
rather more than my vanity. However,
it was the Di of my early training who
cried aloud.*
“But everybody wants me, to work!"
I protested, “and it isn’t that I’m not
willing to work. When you met me I
was at Silberstein's. But there isn’t
anything I can do!”
Mr. Colby made an impatient gesture.
“Nonsense!"' he said sharply. "You’re
an able-bodied human being! There is
always something for you to do! Os
course, you can’t find anything that
doesn’t require any effort and that will
pay you a thousand dollars a week!
And that’s the sort of job, you are look
ing for, my dear! Don't let us talk
about it.any more. You would best fol
low your plans as you have made them.”
I rose to my feet indignantly. t
• "What are my plans?” I demanded
furiously. “How do you know so much?
What do you think I am going to do?”
"O, that's easy!” Mr. Colby told me
coldly. “You’ll get some man with
money to take care of you, and in re
turn you will give him just as little
love and loyalty as you possibly can
and get away with it!”
•'I won’t!” 1 cried, “I won't!” And
! I clinched my fists.
Mr. Colby half closed his eyes and
looked at me.
Mr. Colby half closed his eyes and
I looked at me.
“I wonder!" he said slowly. “We'll
i see!"
SPELLING AS A NEWSPAPER ASSET
A newspaper out in the Dakotas has
a society column in its page make up.
Like the over-crowded columns in Geor
gia newspapers which have sodiety col
umns, mistakes occasionally occur. This
Dakota editor went into raptures over
a brilliant society event in his town
where the chieftest leader in the society
was Mrs. Orlando Overlook. In relat
ing at length the happenings at Mrs.
Overlook’s party, he said, in type’ that
the function of the winter’s occasion was
“Mrs. Orlando Overlook’s Feet.”
He was promptly called down. Women s
feet unless they can accommodate them
selves in a Cinderella slipper, must be
omitted in the function notices. It is
allowable I notice to mention shoes in
a bridal costume provided the shoes cost
above a dozen dollars, but it is a seri
ous offense to. society to write about a
society woman's feet!
The hapless editor tried tq wiggle out
of ns tight place-in the following man
ner : •
“We wish to apologize to Mrs. Orlando
Overlook. In our paper of last week
we had as a heading: 'Mrs. Overlooks
Big Feet.’ The word we ought to have
used is a French word and pronounced
the same way, but spelled fete. It
means a celebration and is a very tony
word.”
But will Mrs. Orlando Overlook ever
forget and forgive this repentant edi
tor? Would if have been more tolerable
if this honest mart had kicked his “print
ers’ devil” in the next issue? I know
not The deed was done apd jf Mrs.
Overlook’s feet are sizable and w labeled
anything approaching. No. 6, the deed as
recorded will stand! The apology was
worse than useless.
And the pangs that Mrs. Overlook
has suffered who can tell? Just one
little letter in one little word has out
raged her feelings and put her feet
along with the Dakotas “on the map.”
Spelling is a lost art in a majority
of public schools. Along with a fash
ionable penmanship that defies the pa
tience of the recipient and does not im
mortalize the sender, spelling plays a
significant part in all our business af
fairs, including society functions as de
scribed in the accommodating news col
umns of the daily journals. I occasion
ally glance over the descriptions of the
dress parades that occur in Atlanta so
ciety. The word “gown” that our fore
mothers would have frowned down in
their heyday of youth and fashion Is
the word that Is played upon in extenso.
The only gowns that were spoken of
in my childhood were “night-gowns—
and my grandmother called hers “bed
gowns.”
Why abandon the word “dress" and
dally with “gowns?” If your newspaper
should accidentally report that an At
lanta Mrs. Overlook had appeared “at
night,” in her “bed-gown” you can set
it down there would be a racket!—Ac
cidents will happen.
If a woman goes bathing at Palm
Beach and comes out, in her skin-tight
costume with naked feet, it is allow
able; it seems to say it is all righL
But that costume on the public street
would be all wrong. If her body is
absolutely nude above her arm pits,
at Mrs. Overlook's function, that is all
right, to be recorded in the papers, but
the "d—l would be to pay” If the nude
shoulders and bosom were accidentally
alluded to in the wrong place.
POLITIC AX JUDGES.
Anybody with half an eye can see
that we have too much politics mixed
up with the election of our judges. Per
haps we can settle upon no better plan
than the one now prevailing—but we can
easily agree that if this is the best —
the others are very poor indeed. Elec
tions by the legislature got to be insuf
ferable. Trading was carried on—swap
ping of votes was brazenly performed,
and some of the judges who were seated
on the woolsack —were contemptible not
only in their subservence to the people
who used them, but in their ignorance
of law. That plan beat itself it was
so promptly convicted of being an intol
erable method.
Some of the evils that were palpably
shown in legsiative judges—have contin
ued on, into these popular elections.
There is too much trading, too many
combines, with those who are seeking
other oflices, as before stated. It is a
glaring evil, when judges run for high
er-paid offices, without resigning the
judeship. No man should be allowed
to do it, without resigning from the
bench. If he te defeated —then he can
make the other fellows suffer —when
cases come before him, and in which
those who oposed him are asking for
justice.
Political judges—-should (as I believe)
be appointed by a political governor
one who can get some praise if he picks
out a capable judge, but who will get
the blame if he falls short of his bound
en duty—to select a proper man for this
high and responsible position. Hon. A.
H. Stephens used to say, that the repub
lic could stand until the judiciary be
came rottne, with politics and bribery
then the crash would come.
A judge should, like Caesar’s %ife, be
above suspicion. If a judge is some
body’s useful man, on the bench, he is
not only a misfit, but unworthy to hold
the office.
MOTHER! IF CHUD'S
TONGUE IS COATED
If cross, feverish, constipated,
give “California Syrup
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Disregard of the Sabbath
Is a. Growing Menace
To Our Civilization
By Hishop "W, A. Candler
Men who have prospered by lives of
piety frequently forget in the days of
their prosperity the principles of life
by which they have been successful,
and renounce these principles in favor
of habits more lax and self-indulgent.
But the outcome of such a course is al
ways unfortunate and injurious.
In like manner communities .may for
get the things by which they have been
made great, and break away from prin
ciples essential to their continued wel
fare. It is greatly to be feared that
such is the case at this time with re
spect to the observance of the Sabbath
in the United States.
This nation was founded by men act
ing under the compulsion of the strong
est religious motives, and by its moral
life chiefly its greatness has been ac
complished. It cannot, without serious
disaster, trample under foot the prin
ciples which gave it birth and which
have prevailed throughout its history.
In the south these principles have
been preserved longer than in some
other of the country, our sec
tion having had less immigration from
Continental Europe and having been
exempted from other influences which
have injuriously, affected the people of
some other parts of the United States.
Sabbath observance has been and is
better in the south than in any other
part of North America except Canada.
But forces are at work among us to
subvert the Sabbath. They are work
ing persistently and shrewdly. They
are at work right here in the city of
Atlanta, and many of our people seem
blind to what is going on.
Under pretenses of serving various
charitable causes “moving picture
shows’’ are open every Sunday. This
opening of these places on the Sabbath,
if not stopped, will lead to other things
of a worse nature, if there be any worse
things. Presently we shall have an ag
itation for Sunday football and base
ball. Then still greater excesses will
be indulged; and the final outcome will
be the utter subversion of the Sabbath.
This does not seem to arouse the at
tention even of the preachers as much
as do other things of less importance,
and it is to be feared that the serious
menace to our civilization which it in
volves is not clearly perceived. Even
thoughtful and pious people do not per
ceive that the destruction of the Sab
bath involves the overthrow of relig
ion.
It has been said that the Sabbath is
the lungs of religion and when it is de
stroyed religion perishes of consump
tion. The statement is not too strong,
and the progress of this “white plague,”
which threatens the life of religion in
our country, must be speedily and vig
orously resisted.
Practical atheism can hardly express
itself more thoroughly than by the
habitual and universal violation of the
Lord’s Day. And the atheists know this.
They know that when the Sabbath is
gone there will be no worship, and when
worship has ceased there will be no re
ligion, and with religion overthrown ath
ism will prevail everywhere.
Men of the world need to consider this
fact. A Sabbathless city will be a riot
ous and ruined city, and this is especial
ly true In this period of the world’s his
tory when the contentions between capi
tal and labor are so sharp. There is a
peril here that should appeal to worldly
wisdom, if not to religious fear. The
labor unions use Sundays for their meet
ings, and many of the employers of the
men who compose these unions disregarj
the Sabbath Day by both labor and
amusement. When both parties to these
industrial conflicts have been removed
from the influence of worship and the
restraints of religion, what must be the
inevitable outcome? They will not
meat each other in any spirit of fairness
or brotheriiness, and their collisions will
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be more fierce and pitiless in proportion
as all parties are less religious.
Let no man say that concern for the
maintenance of the Sabbth is mere fa
naticism. The greatest statesmen of
the world have perceived and proclaimed
the importance of maintaining the Sab
bath.
Mr Gladstone was not a fanatic, but
in an address against the Sunday open
ing of museums in England he said:
"From a long experience of a labor
ious life, I have become most deeply Im
pressed with the belief that the alterna
tions of rest and labor, at the short in
tervals which are afforded by the merci
ful and blessed institution of Sunday,
are necessary for the retention of a
man’s mind and of a man’s frame in a
condition to discharge his duties, and it
is desirable as much as possible to re
strain the exercise of labor upon the Sab
bath, and to secure to the people the
enjoyment of the day of rest.”
If the same debate in the British par
liman tet the Early of Shalftsbury said,
“Sunday is a day so sacred, so impor
tant, so indispensable to man, that it
ought to be hedged round by every form
of reverence. Its adaptibility to the
wants and necessities of society, the
wisdom of its institution, proves it to
be Divine; and the working people of
this country—the great bulk of the
working people—regard it in that light.
They differ, no doubt, many of them.
Some take a religious view of the mat
ter; others take a more political view
of it; but all axe of this mind that the
sanctity of the Sunday is to them a great
protection.”
The Earl of Beaconsfield was a He
brew. and might have been supposed
to have had little sympathy with the
observance of the Christian Sabbath. But,
he took the same position on the ques
tion and spoke in the course of the dis
cussion as follows: _
“Os all Divihe institutions, the most
Divine is that which secures a day of
rest for man. I hold it to be the most
valuable blessing ever conceded to man.
It is the cornerstone of civilization, and
its fracture might even affect the
health of the people. The opening of
museums on Sundays is a great change,
and those who suppose for a moment
that the proposal could be limited to
the opening of museums will find they
are mistaken.”
And Mr. Broadhurst who was a Trade
Unionist member of the house of com
mons, said:
“To those who live a ceaseless life
of toll, the Sunday is that which the
cooling stream in the desert is to the
weary traveler. They know they will
arrive at it, and It is one of their great
hopes in life that they on that day of
the week feel that all men are equal
for twenty-four hours and that they are
having a foretaste at least of a future
in which they shall share with all mor
tals the results of a life of labor. What
ever you do, do not take away the poor
man’s Sunday. *lt is - the otfly day he
has to himself. If you attempt to be
gin opening places of amusement, you
will soon have places of work open, too,
and thus the poor man will lose that.”
’ Earl Cairns, in the house of lords,
echoed the sentiment which Mr. Broad
hurst had expressed in the house of
commons, and said: “If the state once
enters upon a course of this kind, the
only point at which it would stop short
is the point which has been reached
in foreign capitals, where there is abso
lutely no protection at all to the work
ingman in the observance of the Sab
bath.”
Wage earners would do well to con
sider the utterances of these thoughtful
men. arid to rise up against any sort
of profanation of the Sabbath day wheth
er by moving picture establishments, or
by any other parties whatsoever.
Some will say it is progress to disre
gard the Sabbath day. Such talk is the
merest folly. There is no real or en
during progress ever achieved by the
trampling under foot of moral laws.
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