Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — A Curious Chilian Custom. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Chilian Custom.

Monday is a dies non in Chili. People have learned by long experience that they can expect little from their servants and employes on that day. They call it "San Lunes”—sobering up day. A manufacturer goes to his shop Monday morning to find that only a few of his hands have reported for duty, and even they are in a seedy condition. In some establishments, In places where labor is plenty, the hands who are .absent on Monday get no work during the week, but this rule cannot Im* applied in most of the cities, because lalxir is so scarce that employers are at the mercy of their help, and are compelied to tolerate their delinquencies. The mistress of a household allows her servants a Sunday off in turn, but seldom expects them to report for duty on Monday, and Is never surprised to receive a message from the police station. Carpenters, masons and other mechanics seldom work more than five days in a week, for the reasons I have given, and there is a proverb that the shoeshops are never oiten ou Monday.