The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-14
Dull Winter for Seabury.
Not Thing to Go to Sunday Nights.
Especial Dispatch to the Boston Globe ]

70 cave lOWU, Is sdiu ~ De all eulneDl
authority on sociology, but Lysander
r-ick. who drove him to the station,
.5esn't know the difference between So
r.5Iogy and sciatlca, not being in his
Inc.
But Lysander supplied the professor
r,-r food for long and reflective consid-
--ation while they were waiting for the
rain. which was late, as usual.
Prof. Simmons once wrote an essay on
The Problem of Rural Recreation" in
gfch he depIored the hedged-in and
INSCRIBED life of the resident of the
rural community, and suggested as So
luun that a sort of new social worker
should be developed on the line of the
s4ttiement worker, but trained and fitted
20 educate the farmers. their wives,
sens and daughters how to cultivate the
vast wastes OF unutilized time, especial
~ IN the winter in the country towns.
Prof. Simmons never lived in the coun-
-ry and really knew nothing about con-
s.-lons, from actual experience, but he
h. read stories and books which depict
e. graphically the awful lonesomeness
and monotony of rural life In the winter
grich had often driven the hero or hero
- TO such desperate ends that they did
.- IS enough to make story about.
Lively in Summer.
prOf. Simmons observed that there was
.ack of life in the rural communities
+. Inc summer, especially when the place
-appened to be favored with summer
-tors, as was Seabury. The native
1Iation was exceedingly active in ca
,,r.ag to the many wants and whlms of
-.r paving guests. But, of course, after
tr- season was over the long winter of
weary waste, with absolutely nothing to
-o. would set in. He has told all about
f, IN his paper. Lysander had to wait for
the down train to get some empty cream
lrriers and the learned professor took
THE opportunity to enlarge his data upon
I'll al problems at first hand from an IN
slspecting but typical subject.
u suppose that it is rather dull in
.own like this, during the winter, with
.,tle or nothing in the way of entertain
n-nt, like we have in the city. | suppose
the most of the people spend the even
rgs by their own fresides, reading the
weekly paper and the Bible, going to bed
-ar.y and wishing for the end of the
long, cold winter and the return of the
sumner people, the professor advanced
the way of starting the conversation.
Y er right, professor-it is kind of
..ll here in Seabury in Winter-not much
.oin' on. Still me and Mary Jane get a
eL snce to get out once in a while, at that.
Tie Masons and the Eastern Star meet
Monday nights and we tend out pretty
i bnn IA
Fellers and Rebekahs, and we wouldn't
mink O. missin' that. Wednesday night
is Grange night and we just have t go
that night cause I'm the steward and
Mary Jane is fora Then Thursday
nights the Post and Relief Corps meets
ara US old soldiers are gettin so scat
own to G. A. r. Hall and tell the same
get US baked bean supper. Then Fri
lay night is prayer meetin' night, and
NE and Mary Jane. being good Metho-
sIample in the community, and besides
the new minister has got magic lantern
thing and gives US quite little show and
-1ere's a regular orchestry for music.
lien come Saturday night there is most
Hall and we go to that
Town Hall Taken Every Night.
Indeed" remarked the professor.
Then you have something in the way of
ueatricals here in Seabury?"
''Wa-a-al, | reckon. Bill Semple, the
uanager of the Town Hall, told me that
they had got to put more nights in the
month if they expected to take in all the
sarous attractions that want to have the
ra. this winter. He said the Worst-yet
stock Company had booked three solid
weeks, and H. Price Weber was coming
Tor his 46th consecutive tour. Then there
was the glass blowers and an Indian med
icne show, Uncle Toms Cabin, two
Minstrel shows, Mirror of Ireland,
amy Ferguson's trained donkeys, the
Swiss Bell Ringers, and more comm.
Course, some nights there amt moth
Of the Torrent Ingine Comply and the
annual ball of the Deluge Ingine Com
pny-who caPlate to put up bigger
leterans' ball and the Odd Fellers' ball,
which is some bal-regular city orches-
try. Then the Seabury Dramatic Com
to tackle new one called East Lynn, or
something like that, this year. Miss
Casta Sproul will come along with a
show by her Shakespeare class, an the
High school girls will have some sort of
party, an the Seabury Cornet Band
will have a benefit to get new from
bone or somethin' or other, n the Village
Improvement Society will have le-vee
to get money to paint the graveyard
fence.
Looks though there wouldn't be
much t. 60 to, but Teller is riggin' up
the old Presbyterian church that they
don use now, for movin' picture show,
which will help out some. l suppose
there'll be the whist clubs, same as there
was last winter-'bout six or seven, |
believe, an l hear teller is goin' to
start bowlin' alley and a pool and
billiard table, which will fill long-felt
want, as the papers say"
Il m surprised, really; had no idea
there was SO much social activity in
rural community like this,' admitted the
Professor.
Last Winter Rather Dull.
'Wa-a-a-l, there might be more dom
last winter it was somewhat active
When there was two revivals goin' on
the Methodists and another Teller who
didn't sail under any particular flag. And
there was some pull haulin' for converts
and it got SO half the town was fghtin'
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