Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-06
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| sGrinnel. April 6.--One OF the anus
| INK things as one goes from town 10
Town Is to nick up the local paper ana
read it's editorial comments on the
present legislature. If the local paper
happens to he a Cunmins paper we
have legislature that has accom-
| plished something, pat EN- on the
back" but IL it's a standpat organ,
| speaking, metaphorically, We ses
| OF cranE.s making laws in Des MONIES
| this winter" Some one said that
while Secretary Shaw was In WASH
lington the mere mention OF Governor
Cummirs' name made Shaw froth at
the mouth" and the same lnsid'ous
disease has become epidemic with
nearly all standpat papers the state
over. Tie Grinnell Herald not except
ed. Az there are three mouths on the
editorial force of the Herald, the
amount of froth Is naturally three FOLD.
And this is the paper SO strenuous for
"harmony."
At one time, in hard times, 1t was
common sight from the car WINDOWS
to notice from one to five tramps near
the railroad water tank, with a hre-
place built of stones, and the weary
Willies cooking their breakfast IN
empty tomato or corn cans. A brown
paper bundle was In evidence; they al
ways managed to have bread, meat
and coffee. Tho 1t was winter, they
seldom wore overcoats. and generally
with one button holding their only coat
together. the cook for the occasion
would stand there shivering and shak-
ing. waiting for the coffee to boil.
Others of the party were sitting around
doubled up to retain what little neat
their clothes afforded. All had slept
In SOME barn or in the stockyards, ard
their looks plainly showed they had
not yet washed UP for breakfast" Arid
all OF this discomfort rather than work
n few hours and earn enough FOR
Supper, lodging and breakfast" Three
weekE ago the writer saw this old IA
milial roadside picture. Will the times
ever be good. enough to get the tranps
off the road?
The writer has no desire to get any
railroad crew ION the carpet, so that
follows will be given emitting locality
and railroad, but 1t Is here given to
show how railroad accidents happen
some times. 1t was on railroad that
has the block system. The working
crew wanted to get to the next station,
where a good dinner was obtaiuaole.
The block was set against them, the
dispatcher wouldn't help them. The
depot agent had done all he could to
get orders, but it was of no use, and
nice hot dinner only six miles away.
So the engineer and conductor had
the agent tell them where all the NOV
ing trains were, and then made a run
for it. They ran so wild" that the
six miles were covered in eight MIN
utesi and the travelling man that rode
with the conductor" lost his fierce APP
petite for dinner before he got to Mex
town. And this same wild train got
back from where they started before
sans block, sans everything. But
accidents will occur"
A. local item in the T.-R. some time
ago, mentioned that a Miss Rauch was
in town giving cooking lessons. That
she came from the Iowa State College,
with no expense to her scholars ex-
cepting travelling expenses and enter
tainment. So it seems the state or
Iowa is doing some practical work, and
one would think there would be a
great demand for Miss Rauch, and a
hundred more doing the same work.
But there isn't. We're content to go on
slowly but surely down to untimely
graves, eating the worst cooked food
of the best food produced anywhere in
the world.
The crime of the strawberry short
cake is being now repeated in Iowa.
Something called short cake is now
cooked, generally doped with pure ?
leaf lard. allowed to get cold, then split
open with butcher knife, making sog-
gy every particle touched with the
knife, after which some half green.
seedy strawberries are placed on the
slabs of this dyspeptic dough, then the
mess is cut into four inch squares, and
served in many hotels and sad to re-
late, in many private homes in Iowa as
the great American dish, strawberry
short cake! And to think with ninety
days ahead OF us, ninety days when one
one could have real short cake If the
cooks of Iowa only knew how. every
dow three times a day. and not even
send for Miss Rauch When some one
said the Lord might have made a bet
ter berry than the strawberry. but He
had not to it could have been added
He might have made cooks that know
how to make strawberry short cake,
but He has impaired that knowledge
to only one in ten thousand.
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