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Show HALF-HOLIDAY IS FAVORED. We are in favor of the half-holiday and desire to assist the Young Ladies' and Young Men's Mutual Improvement association in their efforts to establish a half day of outdoor life 60 that when Sunday comes, that day may be made a season of rest and religious worship. It is useless for churches to proclaim against Sunday amusements amuse-ments while pent-up clerks and other toilers have but one day on which to get out in the open and enjoy sunshine and fresh air. The religious people arc beginning to understand this and among the first to seek a remedy are the local Improvement associations. We believe it is profitable for employers to extend to their employes em-ployes a half-day of recreation. The young man or young woman who can enjoy an outing, is better equipped in increased vigor and cheerfulness to give good service than the plodder who grows stale with lack of diversion and failure to stimulate the blood circulation and digestive organs by healthful exercise. You have heard of the grouch. He is a sullen, morose person who offends customers. His trouble i3 his liver or stomach. He keeps his nose to the grinding stone, to the neglect of his health and temperament, and sours his soul. He can drive away more trade than a sweet, mild-mannered person can recover. What the grouch needs is physical exercise to arouse a torpid liver. He should have a half-holiday. And with more of those holidays there will be fewer clerks in ill-humor. In order to keep holy the Sabbath day, the laboring classes should be offered some other day on which to enjoy themselves. The ministers of the city should join with the Improvement associations asso-ciations in obtaining a half-holiday. |