Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Taking Life Easy. [ARTICLE]

Taking Life Easy.

“One of the most noticeable changes that have come about in my experience, ” says a Maine traveler of fifty years, “is in the evening life of the towns and cities. Why, it isn’t so many years ago that in any Maine city the places of business would all be open of an evening. Lawyers would be in their offices, the mechanics in their shops, the merchants in their stores, and everybody pegging a* ay busily. Mills and factories een would run until 7:30. Now go throug , almost any Maine city or village of an evening, and you’ll find the businu s wheels ata standstill. The lawyers, mechanics, merchants —in fact, almost everybody are idle. No one now attempts to do much of an evening. Social life claims ite own when the sun goes down, »nd either the home circle, the club or the theater has the people. Perhaps fifty years hence we’ll no longer work afternoons. ” —Kennebec Journal.