Show E LAW SUNDAY SUNDAYS S OBSERVED IN GLASGOW I er Scot Recalls His Hi Misery as Warn Warn- it irig g Against ChangeY Change V Y YORK YORK Dec Dee 15 The lS-The The present I ton i for a law blue Sunday red red reto re- re d to a prominent Scottish-American Scottish president resident In New York who was born borni borni brought up in to Glasgow and during i first twenty years cars of his life was i ed to conform to all the law blue t day day first observances there less than thir- thir e ears rs ago what t the e people of Glasgow GlasgoN u wider under der at that time It was far enjoyable enjoy he said and he wanted to know what It was was like To begin with observed the former the blue taws Jaws were partly leg legal l frictions and for the rest lest the result I which had come down from ancestors I Just the same Iame people of y class felt feU themselves forced to form ann orm ake Take the ordinary workingman's ramas' ramas fam- fam as' as san example Their Sunday observes es s b began on Saturday afternoon n and ed d until r Monday ron evening In t the the husband having received eek's w-eek's pay would sometimes return t eland divide with his wife When het hei he het t i he would go direct to the public ti re el and nd open his Sundays Sunday's observance kr getting get ing as drunk as possible as soon as Ible In cases where he had not presly presly pre- pre sly isly left a part of his weeks week's pay with It was usual for his wife to toe e down to the public house drag him land make moke him give he her as much muche e ey as he had left KING ING OUT THE BLACKS 4 s soon soon as she got her hands on some ey icy it was the wife's first dut duty to go gothe gothe the pawnshop and redeem her hus- hus Kd ds d's a clothes his clothes his blacks At the shop would meet scores of other women er ler neighborhood doing the same thing J ext eat step in Sunday observance was return home of the husband after j public house had closed at 11 o o'clock clock Jing with him a flask of whisky be J Ing these flasks used to be the first g. g the public house keeper and his as- as l ants did on Friday mornings so as J e a ready for the Saturday rush It 5 fa a long process because hundreds lr t forth every Saturday night from Crom fromN N 17 house After returning home husband would immediately go to unless as was often the case there ht lit be an outbreak of hostilities re- re Ing in damage to some member of Irm I family f Saturday atur ay was a a. very busy da day in inse Glasgow se e households J No o respect- respect people were supposed to cook cool on Ida day therefore all alt the Sunday meals Saturday ni night ht Baths e taken on Saturday night beno bese be- be se epO no decent people took a bath on day although the people of Glasgow in the adage that clean ss liS Is next to godliness godliness' 11 II household ping ning and furbishing was done on Fri Fri- Fri Fri- 11 beC because use Sa Saturday was as a busy land and and it was unthinkable that a broom S uld be used on the Sabbath Incidentally all respectable Glasgow- Glasgow spoke of Sunda Sunday as the Sabbath da day daj being considered sacrilegious to name CAY DAY MORNING Sunday Sanday Sunday morning was the most peace- peace period I of Sabbath day observances blinds were drawn No self ting family ever allowed the sun to toe e In Its windows windows' on the Sabbath r husband sleeping off his liquor of night Knight before did no not enter into the theny illy ny life e for the time being Th The e Ch chilin chil- chil 11 in n and women of ot the e household ho old drew faces and went to church During i t period the husband was aas' aas as fortified evil by the flask he had brou brought brough ht ne e the night before Whenever he hek k ke he took a drink then went to top top top p again fn n the afternoon the family would asbie asble asin as as- ble bie in the house behind the drawn I lids ds de This was the time when Hon on ons and rows were the Indoor p pastime In the afternoon the husband would e wash shave and don his blacks t J prepare to go to evening service always seemed peculiar to me and andee nee ee ce asked an intimate friend of mine min hll be Invariably followed it an An- r l' was that he be never felt right rl-ht during next week unless He ne had gone t to Ice vice the previous Sunday all of which ns s to indicate that there was somewhere Sn n the afternoon whenever possible children and often the older m members i phe he family were sent out for a a. walk I Iy y It were specifically specificallY- told to go out and andy By y Gods God s handiwork These s s. s sometimes om times led to queer quee things In street there were a large number numbe oung lads who used to go out every everyday everyday day and make themselves comfort comfort- in a particular wood where they ed ed cards until It was time to go home horn lun y they would raid the nearby ers era gardens gardena r I remember also thal that tha l oung young men were were often orten sent to o th the opolis the great graveyard of ot th the I where we were supposed to read Inverses verses on the tombstones and bear bearin in mind mindA A GAY LIFE aken iken all In all 1 It was not a a. gay lifo life ur on the River Clyde were no not note wed Swed e to run and no one was suppose supposed p f ro I To o put on t the river in a boat o Th The cars cars only ran In the late afternoon pearly early evening There Were no out out- I sports whatever although there were sands who played football cricket other games on week daj days das a Of course cours theatrical performances were allowed pt sacred concerts at which therbe there ther be no charge these being paid fo for l collection taken up UI Just as i ich In inch CIL ch No Sunday newspapers were al ald al- al d d. d although it was possible ly u ly to obtain the Manchester Sun Sun- The papers tead fead on Sun Sun- tern pr the th On Gln Glasgow ow c-ow Mail p mih 2 dr c d on on r S 'S Saturday urd which 1 was was colloUn co colloquially liy MI n as Carters Bible Dible and which the theand and usually between naps len were repressed In every pos pos- 0 way 1 wa They were not nil allowed owed to out outdoors outdoor and their Sunday walks to be he of the most decorous decorous and and character Just as an example of they they hey fared I r can cite the fact that S child c caught whistling on Sunday veil ived the direst punishment I reber reiber re- re iber ber once being myself caught whis- whis Un a house After being reproved I II Is I sent s nt to bed and had hid to stay there out ut food until time for school next LEY LIZY MUCH SOUGHT will wll note I mention liquor prom prom- 17 In with the I law w Sunday I 1 do so because It important Under the th law a r title ride traveler was entitled to ca eat 10 41 drink t I his stopping places Any Any- 4 became Tie a traveler by I Innes away from his home town Hey ley I y was WIlS exactly four miles ou outside 1 city limits the limits the rest Is obI obA ob ob- obA ob- ob I A citizen of Glasgow afflicted wit with 1211 r thirst and not having a cone con on e nt flask journeyer journeyed to Paisley an and andS S lit t all nil the th liquor he wanted In th the closed hotels This worked it i tays 1 and many of tho prominent cy folk could be found passing th the afternoon tt and evening evening- in Glasgow Glasgo 1 king eking Ing back bick I realize that liquor i- i great fe feature ture of our lives under unde iJ eF Glasgow lasgow blue blue taw law Sunday Sunda There Ther I yd fully 1111 all nothing 0 to 0 do O d but t i to dst stay a al at atan an l drink 1 or g go out and drink n Jar laws lawn are lire enacted in this coutt- coutt com exi expect ct that the AmerIcan law blue y will soon be known mown as horny home horn day y e nest host to final sinal of ot th thew the ow w law blue Sunday was parl parly early II r y 9 morning when the tho lino line formed Conned i ut at the tho local pawnshop This line A cd edof of ot the wives who were putting lo their husbands husband's Sunday suits back in pawn until next Saturday evening This had hod a twofold purpose first to the blacks S and d secondly iQ t to 1 provide a title ready cash a w with which to o start f the ii week The final act quite commonly common took place Monday afternoon when the women took their baskets and went t 16 to market and often suffering Buffering from the reaction of Sunday Sundar returned home homo highly ca' ca I might mention that the business done lone in the police pollee courts on Monday morning was several times heavier than that done on any other day of the week thus testifying t to the efficiency of blue- blue law observances The Thc former Scot Is anxious to Join an organization which is willing to fight to preserve e for foi all Americans a safe sane and healthful observance of ot Sunday 4 v |