Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-27
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West Bend. Nov. ga wise Provi-
dence, foreseeing the high prices for
meat In Iowa in 1900 and 1901. has pros
vided an abundance Of jack rabbits as
big as spring lamps and millions OF or
dinary rabbits, the every day cotton
tail. The present market price for
dressed rabbits in many places in Iowa
is now 60 cents a dozen. But Provi-
dence somehow has omitted in the |
"instinct" Of many women cooks q
knowledge OF how to cook the cheapest
of good meat in Iowa. Yesterday the
writer sat down with eight other hun |
CRY men to a dinner the frugal hotel
keeper had furnished, the entire course
of meats consisting of boiled rabbit
His wife (the cook too lazy or ignorant
to know better. had simply skinned
bunny, undressed him, thrown him into
an iron pot with a handful of salt,
boiled bunny till his bones were loose,
and so We had a mass of stringy meat.
No one could tell whether it was rab-
bit cat, squirrel or Inuskrat. On sec
sond thought, perhaps ii was Belgian
hare disguised. Here was a woman
pretending to run a hotel that didn't
know enough to go into the cellar and
get potatoes, onions, salt pork AMI per-
haps bit OF cabbage, a nlake-up for
rabbit stew that would have made the
hearts of nine men glad. This woman.
raised in Iowa. probably, put this nice
big rabbit into a kettle of cold water,
letting it come to boil. thus making
rabbit soup, then she threw away the
soup and served the tasteless meat.
This same woman serves canned to-
matoes cold. barely taking the trouble
to pour them out of the can. She
makes mincs meat without pairing the
apples and flavcrs with acid vinegar in
stead of cider. This hotel keeper
brought in to each CUES two wet, soggy
potatoes which evidently had been
soaked half an hour in the water they
were boiled in. She added strength to
the coffee by putting i'll coffee extract
THE tea was made of tea dust, full as
lstrong and much cheaper. Paper nap
kins (some of them had been used be-
I$fore), We're given because no trouble
TO wash them. The drinking water was
warm because they had to go across
the street TO get fresh pail. 1t will be
"a great favor if some one Will send this
Ilandlady marked copy Of this issue.
So
A great change has come over the
church people OF Iowa in regard TO
dancing dancing parties and dancing
l5clubs, this referring TO some denomna-
lstions In some towns. There was time
when only 1.-THE lower class" INDUCED
| in this amusement. when respectable
people endorsed the utterances of a
Sam Jones or of Williams OF evangeiis-
tic fame. Only a few yea ago the lat
| ter in Iowa Falls insulted every wo-
imam of the city who danced or attended
/ dancing parties and had to take IL
/ back" or receiyesa thrashing a, the
Hands of indignant fathers, brnthers
4 and husbands. But a great change in.
sentiment has occurred during the past
/ twenty years which Is We'll Illustrated
1 by debate which occurred in ons3
Z Iowa town upon the formation of q
dancing club for this winters season.
4 The proposed nights for regular meet
ings was the subject under discussion
i and the church members ta!so members
i Of the dancing ciub) We're in force sufii-
Client TO vote down5th regular meetings
on night when our weekly prayer
meeting occurs.
The building Of new railroads in Iowa
4 seems to have the effect in northwest
i Iowa of ma king the large towns large:
i and some OF the small towns smaller.
&! Baskerville. Storm Lake and Rockwell
II City come under the head of the larger
4 towns and the effect in these towns on
4 real estate values has been most de-
4 cided in advances. Not only is i, true
Eof real estate in town, but the farm
4 lands in the vicinity of these towns
4 have advanced from $40 to $50 an acre
4 While the grain, coal and lumber bust
4 ness in such larger towns has been not
II increased in some cases lessened, TIL
q the value of general business has been
& Increased by big ratio.
q
\ OF all the plans discussed to remedy
4 the defect in the biennial elections
s. amendment. that Of having an extra
session Of the legislature meets with the
most favor among the people. So many
hold overs" are being mentioned III
different parts Of the state that II
seems that the resignation plan will no,
Il cover the case. AS one man put 1t to-
Il day. the people of Iowa must act sc
u that the hogs" will not only be pre-
y vented from putting their feet IN ths
: trough. but even their heads must bt
!. kept out after January 4 One ex-dis.
: l5trict judge whose decisions while in of
], f,ce were models, said to the writer tina
q Judge Trewin's plan is the only sast
J, one. So much is at stake that even j
an extra session of the legislature cost!
thousands Of dollars the state must pa,
> III and Sca n we'll a ffnr3 III under Yt, cir