Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-21
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New Sharon, June 20.-"AccordinG
1 TO Weather Prophet Hicks the ia IL.
season is now ut an cid. He VIII re-
iceive a long credit mark If he is right
i According TO Art Turner, an Iowa tray
telling man, the rainy season has not
commenced in northwest Iowa, this re-
Ifering to Sac county and northwest
from there, along the c. Il n. w. rail-
way to Kingsley Gardens have sui :
fered for want of rain and ii was dry
and dusty all along there last week
While we We're having floods arouud
Marshalltown.
This rainy spell will not be over til
the moon changes said a weather
prophet at Grinnell week ago. 'Lo 'k
Iat the moon, it would spill out eyary
drop" We had to agree with him. Rut
Turner, the travelling man. SAID the
moon at Schaller looked just that way
the night before 1t was a wet moon up
there, but still the garden truck was
suffering. Then another peculiar th.nS
about Hicks rainy season" was that
lit extended from southwest Iowa to
northeast Iowa. diagonally across the
state. Hicks planets and moon got
things twisted, cut on the bias, as 1T
were.
1t is only few, Very few repuhli :
cans in Iowa who feel like keeping up
the two wings" of the republican par
ty. Shaw has gone to his reward. end
Cummins is in the saddle, not to be un-
horsed by such papers as the Hawkeye,
10 iI.,, I,a
Weakly Eagle of Vinton If the editors
of these papers only knew what a small
constituency they have. their editorial
efforts would be directed elsewhere.
And so it is with the utteranceS OF
some of the other dailies of Iowa, who
are assuming the "stalwart" pose .hese
days, on the free trade" tendency of
Cummins. The Cedar Rapids platform
and every word in it was the deliberate
opinion of that convention, and it rep
resented the opinions of the voters who
sent the delegates there to frame and
endorse it. 1t took 100 years for the
PresbyterianS to eliminate infant dam
nation and Denomination from their
cred. but the republican party of Iowa,
lie. the majority do not propose to .ol-
low the example of the Presbyterians.
Conditions. .rather than 1.-The oriea''
confront US and while the mass of The
party here in Iowa believe in the theory
of protection as firmly as do the moss
back element In press and politicians,
they realize changed conditions make
the position of Roosevelt. Deliver and
Cummins on tariff reform the POSITION
a representative one of the people of
Iowa.
The reporters of the daily papers
gave Iowa College at Grinnell a good
send off by voluminous and readable
daily, while commencement
exercises were in progress, but eli OF
them failed to mention an important
and that is the noticeable num-
Der of tall young women present. Grad
yates and visitors there We're. youn,,
women 5 feet 6. 5 feet s and feet 10.
Tall, "willowy," young women, walkin.,
beside cap and gowned young men v no
had literally to look up to them. To he
sure, they always have and will, but
never before have they looked 50 high
It's part of the duty ola locker on TO
notice and mention such important
IulllGlS. sSldtlSt4CS VI llte Woitu SIlpW
that the entire population on this globe
is now half an inch taller than 10G
years ago, and if the sweet girl gradu-
ates of other Iowa institutions are
sending out into the world the sane in
number of tall young women
it means much for the future of the
race. Again, those who are behind
what is known as dress reform" IN
women will feel much encouraged to
learn that a majority of these young
are members of the anti-eorsat
society. They not only preach but
practice. In the church. on the streets.
around the depot, We're many of the
future mothers of this country, who de-
lighted to show they had waists. Of
course to those of us accus toned to see
that graduating dress around q waist
only a few inches in circumference it
was a shock, but after all pleasant
shock when compared with some who
10 not belong to the A. c. Society. Al
together it seemed as tho Grinnell was
getting some sensible ideas into the
heads of those young women of Iowa.
p S.-Since the above was writer.
The writer has been told by one who
Knows that to be tall and have an Eve
ike form is the fashion just now. The
writer thought he had mentioned a re-
'orm.
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