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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Make yourself comfortable I shouldn't wonder a bit if these blue-laws weren't going to get just a little bit bleached." On his delirious way to the Orpheum, he stopped in to see Bob Standish, not to share the joke with him, for Judge Barklay had laid great stress on the closest secrecy, but in answer to a recent message asking him to call. "What's the excitement, Bob?"
He was not badgered by policemen or by blue-laws. He could get ALL that he wanted to drink WHENEVER he wanted it yet, OF HIS OWN ACCORD, the prosperous drunkard has reformed and become temperate. Our own great Daniel Webster was a drunkard, as were many other great Americans. No man to-day could be a drunkard and at the same time be respected.
Simple hearts put all the history and customs of this world behind them, and play their own game in innocent defiance of the Blue-Laws of the world; and such would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
Of these, the most conspicuous are the blue-laws of Connecticut, and the more absurd and criminal laws of Massachusetts against amusements not only necessary, but healthful and innocent. Even in the present advanced state of knowledge and civilization, do we occasionally hear ranted from the pulpit denunciations of dancing, as a sinful and God-offending amusement.
Simple hearts put all the history and customs of this world behind them, and play their own play in innocent defiance of the Blue-Laws of the world; and such would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together; though, to the eyes of mankind at large, they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
The protest against the present "blue-laws" is strong and the laws under fire are branded as the limit of legislative meddling, but here are some of the old laws that were really blue: These laws once were in force in Connecticut: No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting.
The old Blue-Laws, of all the best, Od Calvin made in solemn jest; For fun he never could tolerate. Unless established by the State: A Puritan, A funny man, John Calvin was a Puritan!" This eccentric song Brooke droned out in nasal tones and with a lachrymose whine to the strangest tune that ever was heard.
Henry ran through the volume to the proper place, inserted his thumb as a marker, and held the book in reserve. "Judge, do you suppose the voters want any of these fool blue-laws passed?" "No." "Well, who does, then, outside of the League?" "Nobody. All we want is a decent city." "It's simply that the League's got the Council more or less buffaloed, isn't it?" "That's what I've heard, Henry."
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