The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-02
III Des Moines kickers paid their
grocery bills with more promptness,
ossibly the grocers could sell cheap
BY Right Of Our Generation.

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Marshalltown Times Republican
III. N. Darling, the Iowa cartoonist,
who probably has no living superior
in the pleasant satire Of the cartoon,
explains the increased cost of living
by a series of pictures in deadly par
allel. On one side MI" doing her
weeks washing, while father Is
busy at dasher churn. Opposite
these an elegantly arrayed lady sits at
an extension phone ordering the
laundryman to send your wagon
around for the laundry while in a
Morris chair, with feet elevated the
gentleman of the house reads his daily
newspaper. Lower down the choice of
cigars, the difference between ready
made and tailor made suits, barber.
shop scene where both barber and
sinner are busy as opposed to older
customs Of smoking and the toilet are
illustrated and the last picture shows
the wash tub of Saturday nights op.
posed to the porcelain bath twice a
day IF we were willing to do as we
used to do instead of the way we do"
concludes the artist
Well, Mr.. Darling, we aren't. We
are not willing to give up modern
necessities and conveniences like the
telephone and the bath tub Neither
are we willing to forego the ancient
and honorable privilege of grumbling
when we pay for them And 1t may be
added that we are learning that these
things belong to us at a fair price
and not at any old price the trusts
or combinations see fit to set. We are
going to have them. They belong TO
this generation and are ours. Moreov.
er we are going to have them just as
soon as we can get them.
The simple life is always open to
those who care to lead it; but the
simple life is not having your hair cut
around and under milk crock or
bathing once week in the family
wash tub. bath tub is necessity
But porcelain tubs and tiled rooms
are not. The telephone comes near to
absolute necessity. The family wash
tub Is not necessarily a badge of
simplicity and preferable economy,
neither is the dasher churn, but the
conveniences and adjuncts to better
living are. Expensive cigars, ten cent
Shines idleness, overmuch play.
theatre tickets three times a week. SEQ
suits and the common effort to appear
as good and better than the neigh
bors," prepared food in packages, lux
urious living on small means. these
are neither necessities nor conveu- |
fences.
Fact is, we want all we see anyone
else have and little more. We feel a
sense OF inequality when Jones goes
by us in his new touring car as we
walk. And Jones feels it too. That's
the nub of TIE matter-that Jones
feels 1t. We ut to show Jones and
our wife wants to show Jones' wife
and our children want to show Jones'
children. And so we essay the luxuri
BUS life on the simple income. And /
being pinched we make outcry.
But as a people we have concluded
o have the necessities of our genera.
Ion at fair rate of exchange. When
We find fault with the bathtub trust
We are justified and there is justifica-
ion for the kick against Is or 100
Der cent cinch on piece of lead pipe.
rhe things grandmother never dream.
ID of have properly become the peces.
sites of her granddaughter in the evo.
ution OF womanhood. More belongs
o us today than yesterday. And we
propose to have it as soon as we can
t is ours by right of our generation