Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — Sage Healey Moralizes About Sunday Excursions. [ARTICLE]

Sage Healey Moralizes About Sunday Excursions.

Brcokston Gazette. The Chicago' Sunday excursion was well patronized and there were a many sleepy heads'the next day. By the way, it is a pleasant trip and well worth its cost if the day is properly spent. A lake ride, a visit to the parks, an elevated railroad or street car ride, a vist to any of the city’s public buildings and in the evening to attend church or a theatre, according to the inclinations of the individual. To one who has hever' attended church in the city, it is worth all the trip costs for that purpose alone. The time may, also, be so shamefully misapropriated that the excursionist has nothing but remorse to reimburse him for his expenditure of time and money. But a trip to Chicago, although made on a Sunday excursion train, may be made morally profitable, for it refreshes the mind, and furnishes a fine example of what man’s industry and inventive genius can accomplish. The Gazette does not believe that the strictest moralist can find any fault with the Sunday excursion; even though a great many excursionists may not rightly appropriate the privileges it furnishes.