Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-12
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FOR MISREPRESENTATION,

IOleQO, OCt. ll.-lt never rams Out
1t pours." For over a year this town has
got along without hotel. Now 1t has
a $4,000 hotel fitted up with all of the
modern appliances to be opened in
fey days. And by November 15 an
other $4,000 hotel will be opened. This
latter hotel is of brick, on the Main
street. the electric car line running past
the building every hour. And right
here let 1t be mentioned that u good
hotel in town these days means more
for the general prosperity of the town
than the average citizen or business
man realizes. Nearly all of the money
received in the cash drawer of a hotel
is spent in the town. No home in
dustry does more for u town, and the
moneyed men of Toledo who have put
their good money into these good big
hotels deserve the thanks of their fell
low townsmen as well as the travelling
public.
sad case, to hear the old man tell
1t. is that of the farmer near town here.
He only owns $50 acres of land in this
county, for which he has been offered
$65 an acre. Has just sold another
farm for $4,000, but listen to his tale
of woe: Il have five grown up boys.
Have sent them all thru college. Two
are lawyers in--. one doctor in,
one civil engineer in and another
is in railroad office in Chicago.
Won't one OF them live at home with
me and help me run the farm. So !
Visiting them" The old man thinks
H u
isn't. The writer was once at Ames,
out to the commencement exercises at
the agricultural college. Twenty-Five
young men and many more young wo-
men were graduating. or the 90 young
men only one was sure he was going
to be farmer. Two We're doubtful
and nineteen were sure they were not
going to be farmers. These young
men, the majority. the sons of farmers.
simply We're not going back to the farm
because three or four years life away
from the contact with the soil had
given them glimpses OF life and occu-
pations that seemed to make more out
of the possibilities OF life. They We're
spoiled for farmers by taking a course
of study at an agricultural college.
Maybe things are different now.
Now the writer. can easily touch
upon another phase of college life. and
altho there is no old man to quote in
this case. much evidence has come to.
the Looker-on of the spelling" of
young women by the same course.
That is the uniting Of young women
college graduates for poor mems wives.
This referring literally to poor men.
And by poor men one has to refer to
those whose income is under $500 q
year. OF course these sweet girl grad
yates don't have to marry poor men.
but sometimes they do, and sometimes
their husbands become poor after their
marriage. And the good Lord help
them in both case. for they need such
help. An indulgent father supplies
them with pocket money and pays their
expenses for three or. four years.
They toll not, neither do they spin,"
but are arrayed all this time in purple
and fine linen. Some one prepares the
food they eat,a dressmaker makes their
clothes. study and brain work is their
occupation. Perhaps they devote six
hours day to music, and that's work.
Then comes the graduating dress. and
Yes, till something else occurs. This
something else nine times out of ten
means marriage. And this college life
has prepared them for real life. Well,
no. Not the life of the mother before
them. Prepared them for life as the
wife of man with 5000 to 81 900 year
income? Hardly. The writer has in
mind very nice young woman who
This poor girl can not make a pie of
cherries or anything else. The writer
doubts IL she knows whether potatoes
are boiled with their Jackets on or off.
She couldn't make herself a dress If her
life depended on it. She can play the
piano. But If she marries that clerk in
the drug store there will not be a piano
in the house this year. No moralizing
In this screed. Merely looking on.
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