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Everything was as it should be. As for Messina Messina was unquestionably a pleasant city. But why were all the shops shut so early in the evening? "These Sicilians," said the waiter, an old Neapolitan acquaintance, in reply to my enquiries, "are always playing some game. They are pretending to be Englishmen at this moment; they have the Sunday-closing obsession on the brain.
As regards the Sunday-closing law, this was partly because public sentiment was not really with us. The people who had demanded honesty, but who did not like to pay for it by the loss of illegal pleasure, joined the openly dishonest in attacking us. Moreover, all kinds of ways of evading the law were tried, and some of them were successful.
Throughout Italy there is now a Sunday-closing law whose effect in a land once of joyous Sabbaths strikes some such chill to the heart as pierces it in Boston on that day, or in the farther eastern or western avenues of New York, when the Family Entrances are religiously locked.
Let us not for a moment forget that these youthful offenders are, in the main, the offspring of lovers of drink and its accessories. Fortunately, a Sunday-closing movement in this direction has recently been crowned with success.
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