Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-19

+ A Chicago couple of prominence VIII
be married at Christmas under the
ancient rites of Persians." However.
they will probably fight under modern
rules and she will ask for alimony In
the common old American way.
County weeklies are resenting an In
cident that leaves considerable leeway
for conjecture 1t is related that on the
occasion of the birth to young Iowa
couple last August of their first baby,
a son, they were extremely anxious to
know the weight of the child. When
they come to hunt for scales or steel
yards nothing of the kind could be
found: but at this critical moment the
ice man hove in sight That settled 1t.
They borrowed his scale and to their
amazement the baby weighed forty
three pounds.
Joe married Miss Paula MQuaver,
And. altho she was thin and passe
She really had lots in her favor
About eight city lots on Broadway!
Life.
The man who built up Postum until
he had an independent fortune OF $2O,-
o0O, 900 invested in real estate was not
afraid,to spend s1.665 every day for one
year for newspaper advertising, He
talked to so many millions of people
that only a few in every thousand
needed to buy in order to give him the
business he got
wouldn't Senators Plat and Depew
resign If they considered their salaries
too low?
1t would be pleasanter to assume that
the house Of representatives instead of
calculating the consequences OF sal
airy grab concluded that $4,000 for
nine months actual attendance, $2,40O
for clerk hire, $3.50 for stationery and
mileage allowance, covered about all
the services the average congressman
are worth.
President Baer should not be confus-
ed with the popular Teddy bear" He's
different.
Discussing the question Of Harry 4.
Thaw's insanity, DR.. Mondsley Knight,
the noted alienist, said:
."That reminds me Of politician who
has a morbid love Of visiting insane
asylums and talking to the inmates.
Tho this is bad for the mental health
Of the man. must admit that his jour-
neys often yield him the oldest little
stories.
"wandering thru certain asylum's
wards one day, he came upon a man
who sat in a brown study on a bench.
".How do you do sir?' said the poll
tician. What is you name, may ask
".My name o said the other, frowning
fiercely. why Car Nicholas, Of
course
"Indeed? said the politician. Yet
the last time I was here you were the
emperor of Germany
"sYes, Of course said the other.
quickly, but that was by my first
wife,
DR.. j. II. Kellogg is sure the race is
degenerating. Insanity has increased
300 per cent in fifty years, he says
Idiocy has increased 800 per cent In
the same time. epilepsy 80 per cent
chronic inebriety between 200 and 300
per cent, Bright's disease sgt per cent.
diabetes 1859 per cent, cancer 305 per
cent. Crimes of all sorts are increas-
ing until there are now 10000 murders
annually In the United States. Di-
vorce and all drug habits are increas-
Ing. In short, we are in a very bad
way, indeed, and unless we reform our
habits and get back to nature there Is
a possibility that the American race
will perish from the earth. However,
it will be some time before the last
American dies in a fit.
The reason people can so often find
help by putting a 15-cent aid. in the
newspaper when all other methods fail
is that newspaper is read by so many
Is =
thousands OF people. The. same want
on a postal card to be seen by the same
number of people who read each issue
Of the T.-R. would cost $500 for post
age alone even if one knew to whom to
mail them.
The man who is seventy-six years
old now was born in a year when there
We're only twenty-three miles of rail-
road in this country. What will this
years baby see on his seventy fifth
birthday?
IOWA lPlklONS AND NOTES.
The Webster. City Freeman Tribune
says Roosevelt has made some b1und-
ers and his letters to Storer are among
them