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Show THE BLUE LAWS ! 1 j BY DR WILLIAM E. BARTON. Jut now there ! freciuent reference I I to the "Blue Lawt " These referetieen sre tp.1 H V r t, ' " jHMBjBv -tm Ym Ufa. jmmtt Am tLi Amm t fSnf ' mwmM 1 BQ9B fHEB y cms cut creation, n mimed to have been u part of the original I j w of Connecticut In IC39. , It Ik Kafe to sky that no one who m.Hce thene affirmations or allusions lUU ever done the very simpls thing of look!nj in the nearest general law II- I hrary to discover whether there ever I were any .such lawn. There were no such laws. The o-. al!e.l -Ulu, Law. r.f ('..niicetl- ; cut" were first published, not In New , Haven In 1630 but In London. 142 years ; later We know the name of the liar "'.o Invented the so-called "Blue Laws." Among his 40 statutes were: "Ik. No one shojl run on the Sabbath i day, or walk in the garden oc elsewhoro, I ' except reverently, to ami frern worship I "18. No one shall travel. Cook vlctuaur. ; make bed.-. .- . hitii.Hfy. ut hair. ' ' : suave on tlie Sabbath day. I "20 Wo woman shall klx hrr child on, j the Sabbath or fasting day." Tin re was mere of Hit sort anil there 1 Wefe people in London In I7M BO devoid Of a sense of humor that they believed! I this ni.nyeti.se tn have been genuine Purl- tan legislation. I The colonial luwa were admitted -verc. ,"MI the Sabbath as there Observed ; was rigid.: hut the "Kluc Laws" owo tlu-lr erluln in malicious falnehooil. und i thelr preservation' to unpurdonable i&- ! ncirancc. I |