Social Drinking In The Nineteenth Century

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They had very little time to socialize because they worked all day, six days a week. When they did have time they spent it doing things like attend balls, go on sleigh rides, picnics, and parlor games. In the nineteenth century social drinking was pretty popular. A lot of the nation's laborers were said to drink about four ounces of “hard liquor” on a daily basis. I suppose another way to stay busy was to watch dogfights and cockfights but that was probably more for the men. This was interesting to me because this isn’t really what we do for fun anymore and now a days people have more time to socialize. (the popular culture, page 392) Printing paper became cheaper therefore the prices of newspapers went down too. The newspapers mainly contained