Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

one can serve in two federal offices.
They are Geo. E. May of Charles City
for this district, the fourth. and F.
o. Ellison of Anamosa, for the fifth
district. We understand that Mr.. May
has resigned the nomination and the
state central committee will name a
substitute to be placed on the ticket.
Mr.. Ellison will resign his position
as bank director and remain on the
ticket.
A Washington school master, who
was trying to impress upon his class
of boys the fundamental principles of
the Declaration of Independence, gave
each of them three buttons. "You
must think of the first one.' he said.
"as representing Life; of the second
one as representing Liberty and of
he third as representing the pursuit
on Happiness. Tomorrow / want You
to tell me what each of those buttons
mean. " The next day the principal
again brought up the subject of but
tons, and first questioned Johnnie, the
youngest member of the class, as to
what the buttons meant, Johnnie be-
gan to weep. Il amt got 'em all, ("
he sobbed, here's Lite an here's Lii
berty, but mommer sewed the Pursuit
o happiness on my pants -
Cut out Latin, Greek and mytho-
logy and turn the girls out of school
at an early age. ~ This is the plan of
DR.. A. Irathrone Smith. the distin-
guished educator, in proposing his
remedy for the so-called barbarous
practice of over educating our girls. +"
eve are affecting the home of two
nations" he said. "We are sappine
the physical strength of two people,
and going at a headlong pace which
must some day bring us to a realiza-
tion Of the mistakes that are being
made. Higher education units girls
for motherhood. The mental strain
affects the nerves and makes them
dread matrimony more than did the
girls of another generation, because
they realize that their physical sys-
TENS are weaker and less able to en-
dure the strain and responsibilities
of motherhood. My observation is
that the American nation is drifting
to marriages at the age of thirty eight
to forty for men and thirty to thirty
five for women. Nature never in
tended them to mate SO late in life
Happiness cannot be the outcome of
marriages of that kind"
They are having some lively times
down in the second district. which is
really the only district in the state
where the democrats have any show
whatever of electing their man.
Judge Wade who represented that dis
trict in the last congress is said to be
making house to house canvass as
is also his opponent. A. F. Dawson,
the republican nominee. Mr.. Daw-
son. though a comparatively young
man, is by no means a novice in
politics; as senator Allison's private
secretary he has had large opportupi-
ties ana is said to be an unusually
bright and capable young man. The
heavy guns of both parties are soon
to concentrate their fire on that dis
trict, especially on Scott county,
which, it is thought. will prove to be
the pivotal ground and will probably
determine the result Secretary Shaw,
Speaker Cannon, Governor Cummins,
and other distinguished republicans
are to speak at Davenport, Clinton
and other points in the district, while
Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi, is to
tell the Germans down there how not
to educate the negro, and other promi-
nent democrats from outside the state
will not only attempt to show the
people in the Iowa storm center, what
a blessing it would be to keep the
co!ored man in utter ignorance, all
his days but also what a godsend it
woulo be to the country to change
the present prosperous conditions for
another reign of the soup house.
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Lappen Goes TO NOrthfield.