The
Young Girls Are, No Doubt, Much More Comfortable Under The New
Dispensation - And The Elderly Men Also, As I Fancy.
Sunday, as
regards the outer streets, is sabbatical.
But Sunday evenings
within doors I always found to be what my friends in that country
call "quite a good time." It is not the thing in Boston to smoke
in the streets during the day; but the wisest, the sagest, and the
most holy - even those holy men whom the lecturer saw around him -
seldom refuse a cigar in the dining-room as soon as the ladies have
gone. Perhaps even the wicked weed would make its appearance
before that sad eclipse, thereby postponing or perhaps absolutely
annihilating the melancholy period of widowhood to both parties,
and would light itself under the very eyes of those who in sterner
cities will lend no countenance to such lightings. Ah me, it was
very pleasant! I confess I like this abandonment of the stricter
rules of the more decorous world. I fear that there is within me
an aptitude to the milder debaucheries which makes such deviations
pleasant. I like to drink and I like to smoke, but I do not like
to turn women out of the room. Then comes the question whether one
can have all that one likes together. In some small circles in New
England I found people simple enough to fancy that they could. In
Massachusetts the Maine liquor law is still the law of the land,
but, like that other law to which I have alluded, it has fallen
very much out of use.
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