Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-24

| manship rather than the arena where
he attorneys for special interests
meet to divide the spoils.
| A man called "the man with the
golden nose" who was able to test the
age and excellence of whiskey by
smelling of it has just died in Ken
lucky. The fellow who depends on
| taste went long ago to his last home
A golden nose and an inflamed stom-
ach arc different
Il strolled into the Globe last night
and heard MaNil, and | want to say
| right here that j think him the graa--
est monologist in the world
You do, eh3 You never heard my
wife. Boston Curior.
physical culture. father, is perfect
ly lovely" exclaimed an enthusiastic
young miss Just home from college
Look. To develop the arms l grasp
this rod by one end and move it slowly
from right to left"
We'll Well" exclaimed the farmed;
what won't science discover If that
rod had straw at the other end you'd
be sweeping."-
AS showing how times do not change
we are all still opposed to a tax on
tea
A medical journal cites a case whore
a young man got tonslitis by kissing
a girl. Well. what of it! Tonsilitis
never killed anybody. did it?
Before woman suffrage can receive
actual attention woman must rise
above the memory of the merry widow
and trample the present monstrous
With the merry widow the election
booth was too narrow and with the
present style it is too low. Woman
must adapt herself to the ballot. The
fashions in election booth are per-
manent.
From reports of the interminably
long walks upon which Mr.. Roosevelt
is leading his wife she as we'll as some
others is likely to see a prospect of ease
when Theodore sails for Africa.
TT any lady happens to have among
her heirlooms an old fashioned Con-
necticut butter bowl. a little bunch of
ribbon and other trimmings will con-
vert it into a new creation in millin-
cry.
South America offers many oppor-
tunities for enterprising young Ameri-
cans For instance, Brazil grants sub
sides to wheat growers. To syndicates
for the purpose of growing
wheat the government offers $4,000 per
annum, each, for five years, provided
at least 494.2 acres are cultivated. For
of at least five syndi-
pertinent station by each such group,
the government will pay $4,000 for five
years. In addition it will admit all
tools, machinery and ap-
paratus either for farming or for ex-
pertinent stations, free of charge, and
it pledges itself to do its utmost to OBJ
tain reductions in freight rates on
wheat raised in Brazil and upon flour
from such wheat $50
Stanley, or Sonnenberg, the author
Of "Ta-ra Boom de-a" died in |
circumstances recently. |
He was in San Francisco during the |
and never fully recovered
from the shock to his nervous system |
Lots of other people are not fully re-
covered, either from the nerve-rack- |
ing shock of that silly old ditty when
by an amateur brass. band /
nights with the windows
open.
All the farmers will soon be sowing |
pats. Some of those who dwell in the |
cities are sowing oats now, but of a |
different variety.
Moines women the benefit Of the doubt,
and rest?
One abiding consolation the poor !
nan has is that there is no danger Ct
his children being kidnapped and held
'or ransom.
After Pat Grove, ,the wilhelm boy
itealer, offered to aid in finding Willie
Whitla. the Pennsylvania lad recently
kidnapped, doubts of his reconversion
we're probably dispelled.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
The Iowa City Republican reckons
hat newspapers will have more self
.espect and will stand better with their
when they learn to keep out of