The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-05-18
HOW TO SPEND SUNDAY
some PRACTICAL Suggestions that VIII
interfere with No Mans Libcrty-How
TO Get Kid OF IL Dull sunday.

by law, every citizen In this State
has the privilege of not doing on Sun
day what he is Obliged to do ON other
days. The very practical question
meets him, what different things he
can do which will make this Sunday
privilege a profit or delight. Nobody
is compelled to GO to meeting or to
sing psalms, or to learn catechism, or
to read sermons to fill up his time.
Every one can pick out some new and
unlaborlous employment, and if he
knows how, can have l6 free and hap
Ply hours on one day in seven 1t is of
no Use to object to Sunday as Puri.
tan Sunday, for the law makes it free
day, and forbids work 50 that 1t shall
be free. It is a somewhat singular fact
that with this chance of
Tree day so many can
find nothing better to do than to do
business and work just as on other
days, as If we did not all work hard
enough from Monday morning to Sat
nrday night. 1t is also something of a
commentary on The capacity of many
people Tor improvement and enjoyment
that after little extra scrubbing and
dressing Is finished on Sunday morning,
they don't know what to do with hem.
selves for the rest of the day, and only
consent to go TO church because it is
little less stupid than to sit at home
and cape st their own dullness instead
of . preachers. Some try segar and
novel, others big dinner and nap,
others sitting around a big stove and
splitting at it. But after all these re-
sources have failed the only thing left
is to wish for Monday and go to bed
very early Happy are those who in
such an emergency have young ladies
on whom they may call.
We wish to suggest some things
which can be done, to add interest to
the Sunday of those who find its free
dom dull
Take an hour Sunday morning and
sit down alone, and think what you
have done during the past week, and
agitate the question whether you have
done just as you really think is best and
mean to keep on doing.
Have you told any lies the past week
| Count them on your fingers, if you
can, and seriously consider whether
you always mean to be a liar?
Did you get drunk during the past
week, or come near it 2 Did you help
get others drunk Did you talk tenn
perance and visit tine cupboard TO take
those new g bitters?" Did you sell any
poisoned liquor for good, or any poor
home vine at "A fancy price under a for
| eign brand Was it well9 Do YOU al
ways expect to do such things, and
when will you stop2
Have you abused your neighbor, run
| down your competitor III other stores,
slandered other politicians, or hurt any
woman's reputation the past week 2
These things are unspeakably mean :;
you know they are. God be thanked
if you haven't done them But some
body does them. ask that somebody
whether he always intends To be a
mean fellow.
Have you gambled or skunk into IN
famous dens the past week? Nobody
is obliged to tell me. But many do go
to vile places every week, Sunde~ in
cluded. 1t is q very good plan to keep
on What will twenty years of such
practices make of a man
Have you cheated anybody in the
last ten days? Have you deceived any
employer or kept back the Just pay of
any workman? Have you advertised
receptions Of any kind Does any
money stick to you, which belongs to
anybody else! Are you going to make
a permanent cheat Of yourself? What's
to hinder il you are cheating now?
Did you swear last week? Don't you
swear rather more than you used to,
when your mother taught you? Is
there any particular benefit in it Let
us see il you can stop for a week
Are you not smoking to many cigars
running up debts which you don't
know how to pay; making a larger
swell than your capital justifies-and
getting ready for smash mp and &
run We hope not. But ell these
things happen, one if any one IS over
doing himself in these days, ought he
not to know it and settle whether hi;
course is bestl
) Itstrikes us, that an hour no SUNDAY
of cool, healthy consideration of the
actual status and doings of our week
! days lives would be an interesting EN-
| ployment, whether satisfactory or not
Take another hour on Sunday to d
| somebody some good for which yol
haven't the time on any other day
Write a letter to your mother, or broth
: er or sister, whom you have forgotten
for a long time. Hunt out friend VIII,
has disappeared from your interest
: and renew cordial acquaintance
Find out somebody who is suffering
T and carry fresh cheer to him or hen
{ Go to see the folks who would be ella,
. to see you, but whom you are not al
, ways glad TO see. Visit the families q
those who are working hard to max
rich. Help to put some kind of n hon
feeling into everybody who is homeless
There are plenty of good acts, whic
are not common-and on SUNDAYS vo
e want to do something uncommon
That Is what the day is made fol
I'm talking to people who find Sunda
dull and the church unmeaning, an
= do not care to pay religion much at
tention. do not want to drive yo
: where YOU do not want to go. But W
ought all Of us to make Of Sunday
: finer day than the rest of days, becaus
we have the chance. Our daily to
; makes us dull. Sunday ought to wake Il
; up. Our temptations makes us deceit
, full, hard and selfish. Sunday ought
!, loosen out the cords of affection an
. give us hearts of flesh. The daily III
of men is burdened with sin and ugl
I ness-streaked with deceit, fouled wit
: lust and appetite. 1t deserves to b
improved. Sunday is improvement
!, time. | believe that when any one bt
l gins to improve their time, he Will 500