The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-24
SPEAKING or GREENS.

! A local contemporary in a recent
! issue said that digging for green's is
going on in the pastures and outskirts.
and suggested that If those who are
looking for mess OF green's will give
their services TO parties whose lawns
are full of unwelcome dandelions,
they'll be given the greens for their
trouble" For lack of anything better.
Alex Miller makes the item the
theme of gentle raillery of Keokuk in
his Washington Democrat. Among
OTHER things, he processes surprise
shat an aristocratic little city like
keokuk would use green's OF any sort
He had supposed. he afirnls, that
those people lived on robin red
breasts and humming bird steak and
rose buds and pearls dissolved in vine
gar like beautiful Cleopatra" Where
fore he is moved to exclaim
And here we learn teat they eat
greens. dandelion greens and greens
found in pastures and out skirts just
like Washington folks And We are
not proud at all up this way. Which
shows that after all the whole world
is kin when it comes TO eating
greens
Not SO fast, there, Mr.. Miller Jumps
at conclusions-and misses the right
one. Even the most cursory examina-
ton of the text will show that it does
not warrant the inference he draws
from it. On the contrary, quite the
reverse" = as the logicians say. 1t was
once said of certain sermon that if
the text had had the smallpox the
discourse would never have contracted
the disease. The same might be said
OF Mr. Miller's persifiage concerning
Keokuk. 1t was distinctly stated in
the item upon which he based his
article that digging for greens was
going on in the pastures and outskirts
OF the city That it was not going on
in the city is made very clear by the
suggestion that the owners of lawns
in the city would be glad to give the
dandelions growing therein to any and
all who would rid their premises of
them. In effect ttais was equivalent
TO saving that people in Keokuk who
own lawns o. occupy houses with
lawns attached, constituting the bulk
oa the population, have no use for
green's. They regard them as a nui
sahce Yet Mr. Miller. by singular
peryersion Of thought, construes it TO
mean tEat Keokuk people as a class
eat dandelions and the like and are
70 fond OF them that they go into the
outskirts Of the city to get them,
i5osh' Also pshaw! Likewise piffle,
What the people OF Keokuk really
20 eat Is foreign 10 the present dis
eassion lis allowable, however. to hint
that correct differences can be drawn
rom me resulting product, inasmuch
as scientific authority has said that
a man IS what be eats. The fine
piiysiane Of most Keokuk people sug.
seSts diet rich IN proteids. Of wbic,.
oee'steak and the Iegumes furnish .
oouhtllal and readily accessible SIM
ply me nitrogen in such dict
naturally accounts for their aneroy
: and enterprise This element MOI only
contributes 70 Inc generation 81 r4rva
lofcei II also makes ii inn,adjate.I,.
available On demand. Keokul inteili
: gence and culture point uutofe.aI,at.I,.
r 10 baked beans and Boston I,ro-,.,,
r bread. starches are used gfari,g1e
aad indigestibIe sweetneafs bae ~. !,
d place on the menu, as anyone car , !. ~
ny satlsly himself by NOTING ~. 49,