Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — Taking Life Easy. [ARTICLE]

Taking Life Easy.

“One of the most noticeable change.; that have come about xti my experience,” says a Maine traveler of fifty years, “is in the evening life o? the towns and cities. Why, it isn't so ma :y years ago that in any Main ■ city the places of business would all be open of an evening. Lawyer - world be in their offices, the ml chan cs in their shops, the merchants in 'their t-tores, and everybody pegging a ay busily. Mills and factories e ,-a would run until 7:3 ). Now go thou almost any Maine city or villageo a evening, and you'll iind the bu rn s wheel's at a standstill. The lav ye. .. mechanics, merchants —in fact* a mst everybody are idle. No < o now attempts to do much of an ev-, - i: g. Social life claims its own when the sun goes down, and either 1 , o home circle, the club or the thea'er ! a the people. Perhaps fifty yea ; hence we’ll no longer workafterno n '' Kennebec Journal.