The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-07-24
The MeddIer
III The coat Jts Won, put IL on. =


IL was bound 20 come sooner or later
The Meddcr has been positive all alone
that the Wise Guys silence was only
temporary, and so was not surprised when
the following eplstle reached the office by
X. i. ID. No. q:
! Talgrass Corners,
Monday, July 30.
To The Mcddler,
Dear old crony:
| | sneakcd down into your town yester-
| day inst 10 experience the sensation OF
/ being in a community where the blue laws
reigned. Blue laws indeed, | don't know
why they call them that unless Il is be,
cause the air gets blue in the vicinity OF
every self-pspecting person who happens
TO get caught IN a town where they are
in force What do YOU think was the
| first thing that attracted my attention on
Main street! A woman walking IN the
sweltering heat with parasol under her
arm. heard a friend ask her why she
didn't put up the sunshade and she re-
piled that she didn't dare even to open a
parasol since the Sunday closing edct had
gone forth A little farther along | no.
ticed on a house the following sign:
These blinds are not closed by order OF
the states attorney but 10 keep out the
heat" Then | went into the Brooks
House and bought one-eent stamp TO
put ON a postcard bearing the following
motto:
when Greek meets link then comes the
tug OF war
To stop the Sunday traffic. What's 1t
fory
To quel the noisy outcries of few
Who howl for lack OF something else
to do"
There ought to be a great demand for
these souvenirs among those who are IN
the habit of passing through and pleas
antly remembering your town. Alter
dropping my postal into a L. ;. mailboN,
the slot OF which had evidently escaped
the eagle eye of the authorities and was
consequently open for business, | heard
frightful roar on Main street and rushed
out Just in time TO see two automobiles
disappearing in a cloud of dust What
wers, they doing-racing? said l IN
startled tone. 20 yes replied by
stander, that's regular occurrence. It's
much less harmful than selling soda or
ice-cream. you know"
Honestly, old man, there doesn't seem
TO be particle OF sense in the wave OF
fool Righteousness that has swept over
your illustrious municipality. II is so
utterly divorced from consistency in the
first place. Cigars, tobacco, soda, ice
cream and candy are under the ban. But |
what about soap, snuff, Jamaica ginger, !
cold cream and cough drops! All OF these
may be purchased on the Sabbath. A |
person can get something TO take the dust |
out of his clothes but nothing to take the |
dust out of his throat-unless perehance |
he happens to be in the possession of
valid prescription for liquor, in which /
case he can get something that has soda
skinned 40 ways as dust'cutter, accord
ng to some opinions.
| am glad to see that your paper is
sizing the movement up for just what it
5 worth. Moderation in all things is a
,ood motto to keep in mind at all times.
3rattleboro before the blue-aw crusade
)egan was very good town seven days
n the week, and there was no reason for
making it joke in the eyes of tourists
md outsiders just to satisfy the whims
Il few whose sentiments are not those
# the community as whole
Thoughts something like these passed
through my mind yesterday afternoon as
absorbed plate of ice-cream at Oakes's
sland Emporium and watched people
ock across the bridge in quest of similar ,
efreshment. As likely as not the very
ersons who were most anxious to see the
d come down think nothing of turning
he crank of an ice-cream freezer for an
our or so previous to their family din
er, or II they begrudge the time spent =
1 such labor do so because it takes them
way from their Sunday newspaper.
rattleboro people who are in sympathy
18th this, to me, idiotic wave of reform
lstify their position by saying that it is
he law. DO they stop to think what a
ate of things would result from a thor
ugh and impartial enforcement of the
statute? Yours truly,
The Wise Guy.
p. SIS it true that the complainant
this business is a relative of one of the
-ndidates for town representatives,