Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-01

every Monday a check for what is due
me. If he lacks funds because the
members of this church fail to pay
their subscriptions as agreed. he will
go to the bank and borrow the money
asking the church trustees to sign a
note as trustees, not as individuals.
Once more want to make 1t plain that
in securing my services, those of my
wife are not included She will do her
full duty as q christian woman and
member of this church, but not because
she is included in the contract have
made with this church. Another thing
l want to tell the business men of this
town: When I walk into your stores to
buy anything I expect to pay cash for
what 1 get / propose to pay for the
things l need just the price your other
customers do, neither more nor less,
especially less. If one of your mer-
chants offers to sell me a hat one dol
lar less than the regular price because
I am a preacher, he will not only lose
the sale of that hat, but my future
trade. I am not an object of charity.
When 1 become so l shall leave this
town." And the writer happens to
know that preacher served that congre-
cation for eleven years. And that check
came by mail every Monday.
The ST. Louis Methodist Episcopal
pastors adopted a resolution which
characterized as "the grossest violat ton
of the properties of life" the "diaphan-
Gus" dance given there Tuesday by isa-
dora Duncan in conjunction with the
Damrosch concert.
Many of ST. Louis richest women,
interviewed today, however, upheld
| Miss Duncan's dance. Mrs. William X.
Kavanaugh is quoted as saying: "To
mo Miss Duncan looked like an eX-
| quisite figure on an old vase that we
are allowed to admire with perfect
propriety."
The resolutions of the ministers fol-
| lows: Resolved, That it is a matter
| of exceeding regret that in the name
| of charity and before an audience of
| character and culture, and excused only
| by being high art woman clad only
| in kirtle slitted to the belt, of a fab
rio so diaphanous that in certain
| changing phases she was virtually
naked, rising to the horizontal in the
whirl of a dance, has been permitted
to appear. Such a performance, what
ever the motive is the grossest viola
| ton of the proprieties of life, and we
| trust it map never be repeated in ouI
city,
II ever a campaign of advertising
was successfully worked it has beer
on Jsadore's dancing At St Paul fol
/ weeks before she came to town some
| preacher rushed into print on his owr
account or was interviewed" concern
| ing Miss Duncan's dancing. Not {
| preacher but what condemned her inn
modest appearance. Not one would ad-
init that "she looked like an exquisite
! figure on an old vase" Result No room
in that big city large enough to hold
| the crowd that wanted to see are ant
culture as portrayed in "a diaphanou.
| fabric" But it remained for these ST
Louis preachers to resolve" in Ian
guage worth thousands as a well writ.
ten advertisement
I
Dayton, O.. Sept 26.-Smoking was
! permitted this afternoon at a servic.
Episcopalian rector. The services were
1 held in the parish hall and We're large,,
attended.
80 TeduS the SpeCidl SSOIllelllilt
about it does not seem just right. Blu
why? Unless we start out by agresin;
and admitting that the smoking of to
bacco is a sin of greater or less degre
what was there wrong in that "ciurc
| smoker" Unusual and out of the ordi
nary. oh yes, and so are Billy Sun
days sermons to men only. But "
| are told in the latter case that the en-
in the latter case that the emu JUST
fies the means" If by allowing smok
ing in the parish parlors and some me
addicted to the weed came that 9th
erwise would not have attended. am
as a result heard words and exhorta
tions that causer them to lead me-
life" wasn't that smoker a good thing
Would not "a smoker" in any of TIL
, city church basement rooms or in TIL
n Y. NJ C. A. building say once mont
V be a good thing?