Show still in the ring breaks loose on liquor law suin sumptuary stuary laws to prevent ex gance in in dross drees banquets and private t tx ex x tures were common in ancient four lit hundred indred and fifty years be foro oro christ it it was enacted that a woman should nt not appear in attended by more than ono maid unless she waft waa drank nor wear gold embroidered clothes unless she proposed vo to act un the early romans e trusted entrusted n to the censors the superintend ten d once of public aud and private morality a and n d they were presumed to punish all persons persona guilty ot of luxurious living 1 find nd na at luxury grow as aa wealth murea L ceased aid numerous other laws were enacted to restrain it tile the archia law limited tile tho number of guests at a boast tannia law limited the costs of entertainments fixing the sigui to bo be expended on certain festivals fo at asses and to 30 asses on other festivals find and to ton ten on ordinary entertainments tain ments where only ono one lion hen wits allowed to be served find it was not allowed to ba fattened for the purpose the tha romans also enacted the fol following lowin 9 laws owing to tile the dis ird of th tho proceeding laws to wit the ax didia lex luerma Iju crota le lox comelia lox emolia emelin lax anti lex julia and others but all were opposed to public sentiment and were of no avail bunh laws wore were enacted t in england from the timo time of edward the third down to the tha reformation on account of the costly meats used and the evils evil to tn their soul and bodies it was enacted that no man should be allowed more than two courses at dinner or supper The people wore were not allowed to wear vear furs fura skins bilk nor cheuse the use of foreign cloth except the royal family the act of edward the thiro third described the kind hind of each of people should wear such laws prevailed in england and france during tho sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the scotch parliament attempted to regulate ladies dresses in order to save the purses of the cuir gentlemen their husbands and fat fathers bers the attempt was wa made to prevent the scotch lasses from attending tile the church and market i with wl th veil over their faces and from using spices from foreign lands lu in nel neither ither scotland or F france rance were these laws observed to fo any ally extent although they endeavored to enforce them by hired detectives A tow few of riu wh h laws lingered upon tile the english statues 1855 tho the prohibition and local option law tor for tho the purpose of prohibiting th jhb use of intoxicants areef are of ie the nature of sumptuary laws and I 1 evor will succeed in the object sought a to 0 be attained these laws will be rel tr grated rated from froin the pages ut of our statute ho boks woks in n less I 1 than fifty years yeara they aid lay fly succeed by tho the use unai unworthy orthy f eans indirectly in in relegating an in in mo io ji vidual from abet a web to a dry territory i casio nally as evidenced in the late A i ortist to reinforce eIn enforce force the liquor law lav in in eaver citti the places for correcting ego evils are the home common id d pulpit |