This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii The Temperance Question And The GothenBurg Experiment A stranger passing through Kelty any week day or evening, save on the fortnightly pay day would not be arrested by the intemperate habits of the people. On the whole I should repudiate the word " drunken " if applied to them. Drink they ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii The Temperance Question And The GothenBurg Experiment A stranger passing through Kelty any week day or evening, save on the fortnightly pay day would not be arrested by the intemperate habits of the people. On the whole I should repudiate the word " drunken " if applied to them. Drink they certainly do--the eight or ten licenses in the village of 5,000 inhabitants proves that--but there are circumstances which order their drinking and confine excessive drinking to stated times, to wit, the pay night, the day, or it may be the two days following, and holidays, especially at the New Year. There are indications that Sunday drinking is rapidly increasing, but the club rather than the public houses is responsible for this. In certain English collieries the men are allowed light beer in the pits, but in Fife even this is prohibited and so far as I was able to observe this is a rule which the men universally honour. I never saw the slightest trace of liquor in the pits. Miners of all men know that clear vision, steady nerve and untrammelled wit are often the safeguard of their own lives and the lives of their neighbours. Early one week one of my fellow workers on the day shift said with a ring of expected pleasure in his voice--" Next Saturday I'm in for a gude drunk." " Why do you do that? " I asked. " Och, mon, just to break the monotony." I knew this fellow fairly well and 1 am sure that he was not habituated to excessive drinking. It was not to satisfy any craving that he looked forward nearly a week to getting drunk on the Saturday. Another man told me that his drinking was regulated by his wife. It was his custom to take all of his earnings home to her and each day she gave him so much from the surplus over and above household...
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