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The Curse of Half-Holiday Drinking

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 43.

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The Curse of Half-Holiday Drinking

A CORRESPONDENT of one of our prominent journals, writing from England, says:—
"I saw recently twenty women standing at a bar, all drinking; I have seen drunken women clinging to lamp-posts, and one lying drunk at full length in Hyde Park. The half-holiday system which prevails quite generally is proving a curse. To obtain Saturday afternoon for recreation, the working people begin labor at six o'clock, an hour earlier than Americans. So great is the debauch of Saturday and Sunday that few works are started in full till Tuesday morning."