Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-22

| to know. And the luxury of lying in
! bed these cold mornings and realizlas
that the hello girl never fails to ca!
YOU for the early train, and VIII les
you lie in bed an hour longer II II 5
/ late. And the housewife who likes 70
serve a supper piping hot for her re-
turning lord, ask her If it's not a great
convenience TO call up the depot ana
find out that number four is 80 minutes
ilate. All this to say nothing OF the
many business transactions, when SAVE
steps and dollars.
And here is social feature probably
generally practiced. but not so geT,e:-
aily known There never was an lin
stitution like the telephone for the
utterance of white lies. The mot at
home" for the unwelcome caller, has
long been left off the books of the re-
cording angel and probably as soon as
the telephone is generally used above
and below. "msinforination' given
over the phone will be forgiven. An
hardened old paterfamilias was chuck
ling the other day. "of how one of his
girls played it on Smith. Somehow.
for wonder, Smith and daughter agree
on one thing, they don't like Brown.
AIlu lhsAt III - .'iAS3~,.S
on Smiths daughter. So the other ev-
ening Robinson and Smiths daughter
were in the front room sitting on the
small sofa, talking of the weather.
when the phone bell rang. Smiths
daughter answered the call and this IS
what the old man, as we'll as young
Robinson heard at this end of the line
Yes. So sorry, but I've taken an awful
cold Cough, I'd like TO go. but Ger
rible cough right here) Pa thinks
ought not to &c out SO sorry you've
got the tickets, but (cough) I'll ask
Pa IL he thinks 1t safe for ME to go
In a carriage. Awfully sorry but he
won't listen to 1t, (and here it seemed
as tho she'd choked for keeps. sun
day night? Regret We've invited
friends to dinner Drop in any TINA.
do" And then that feminine Smith,
went back to the front room, and sa.
down on the other end of that small
sofa, as demure as tho there wasn't
any recording angel. And strange to
lrelate young Robinson thinks there 5
no harm in white lies over the tele-
phone.
Brother Rankin OF state marsha.s
club fame, has deep disappointment
ahead Of him. Actually some of these
clubs never have a meeting after he
leaves town. Everything was boom
in while he was in town. They raised
big collection for hiss services and ex-
penses They joined and they Joined,
they resolved and re-resolved. They
elected officers and paid their peari%
4. ,t,a 70 els He wont
on his way, stirring the faithful to
arms taking up more collections gaf-
ting more members, getting the cool
people all worked up over having the
LIQUOR laws enforced, then he has 30
go, and the state marshals CLUB JOIN
| the curfew bell ordinance instigators,
and wait for time, eternity and some
body else to do the work. Hear this
rank heresy. coming TO the writer from
the president of one of the clubs Yes
sir. ! helped get up this club IN our
town, was made president, am yet, and
no man living believes in enforcement
of the liquor laws more than do. but
I've beer investigating the plan in de-
tail, and confess / don't like it. The
state OF Iowa has had one Abrams
and that's enough. When went into
it | thought any plan to enforce the
liquor was better than the present
condition of affairs, for the Lord knows
both the mulct and the pharmacy laws
are broken almost everywhere, every
day. this to say nothing of the pro
hibitory law which still is in force in
our town was ready for anything,
but I'll take it back. I'm not ready 10
legalize a plan along the lines of the
work of Abrams" And so Mr.. Rankin
will find when he comes to getting his
bill before the coming legislature,
there Will be many back siders. Why
even such eminent Christian revivalists
as Jones, Sunday ct al, have hear.
breaking experience over the number
of converts that don't stick"