Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-14
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ry q brunette.
The decision OF the board of curators
of Missouri University that each chap
ter house connected with the univer-
sity must have IA chaperon opens up a
pleasant, If limited. calling for woman.
Not only must she receive a salary,
but, in addition, the girls under her
charge must prr,yide her with theatei
tickets and free cabs. She is to be
found in boar and lodging. and to
her the girls ara to be responsible for
their behavior.
AS a sample pf English swat shop
wages poor woman who recently APP
piled to the London authorities for re-
lief said she lived by making blouses
CIR shirt waists sit Sc cents a dozen. The
American sweat shop scale is affluence
compared with 3 cents apiece for maxi
ing shirt waists
The members of new NJ. E. chuhch
at Laurens are In deep water, accord
ing to the Fonda. Times. Last summe !.
# was decided to build new edifice.
The NJ. Z. pastor undertook the job OF
soliciting subscriptions and an
ncunced that he had obtained all the
funds necessary for the erection of the
building. The plans were made and
the contract let and the building built.
When the trustees attempted to collect
some OF the largest subscribers wera
conditional, among them seyera, $500
donations. Thf conditions were nos
favorable and these large amounts
could not be collected. 1t has made
such deficit lr the church funds that
II will be years before the society will
be able to pay for the church and
clear themselves Of debt. Had the
trustees suspected what was going on
they would not have designed SO ex-
pensive building.
Danish congressman have voted to
increase their daily wage scale from
s1.62 to $40 To prevent long ses-
sions they make the increase effective
for only the first six months of each
sitting.
The Christmas number of Golfers
Weekly contains another of the new
Sherlock Holmes SERIES entitled The
Adventure of the Dancing Men" to-
gether with much other interesting
poem by James Whitcomb Riley. The
pictorial features are exceptionally
good, the most notable being a Gibson
drawing on the first page and cot.
cred supplement by Remington. The
Fight for the Water Hole" typical
Plains scene drawn as Only Remington
can delineate the plains types of men
and horses.
c. F. Sklrvin, manager of.the consoi-
dated daily papers at Creston, is pay
ing the penalty of notor.ety by having
his name spelled wrong by half the
newspapers in the state
The Des Moincs Register and Lead
er contends that the farmers of Iowa
are better able to bear the expense OF
good roads than are the farmers of
any eastern state, and says: There
may be some sufficient reason why
Iowa should not begin to build pernna
nent highways, but 1t is not because
good roads are out of our reach. They
will never be more within reach than
they are now, and they will never be
needed more than they sre now. The
argument against them must be d.
rected at some more vulnerable point
than at their cost" Blu. 1t appears to
be more a question OF unwillingness
than actual ability. Without doubt the
armla nds of the state can bear the
necessarily part of perma-
object to taxation. Aside
from those farm owners who live on
and conduct their own farms there is
strong contingent of retired farmers,
bankers and professional men who
have farm investments and these ara
busy making sentiment against hard
roads At present the best Iowa may
hope for Is the drainage and grading
OF dirt roads. The hard roads vii!
come later.
.sThe --latest News From Lhasa.' by
the Rev Ekai Kawaguchi, to appear in
the January Century, is the fullest and
most satisfact ry account ow Tibet's
forbidden city, ever published in this
Kawaguch, a Buddhist
priest Of the Zen sect, spent months In
wandering thru Tibet before gaining
entrance to Lhasa, and then, his re-
markable journey accomplished. MAIN
tanned a residence in I.hasa for two
years, living nearly all the time in the
house of 1'ibetan Official. The raw
eler's account, written by his own hand
In English, reveals the peril and the
patience of six years OF such wander
ings by fine example of the highest
type OF the intellectual japanese. The
priest returned to Japan In the spring
of 1908 to be acclaimed and honored by