The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-11-18

here In Marion which were recently
visited by Il state inspector, nearly all
were found to be in an unsanitary con-
dltlon ana were ordered to clean up?
These are not pleasant matters to
discuss, but since they are existing
conditions. and far worse to endure
than to discuss. how much better to
meet the issues boldly, and try to
better them.
DO you ever allow your children to
visit the moving picture shows?
Have you assureb yourselves that
they are the kind of pictures you wish
to impress on the pure mind OF your
child? Pictures are educational. Do
you wish to educate your child to
look calmly at murders and lynchings
as matter of course and as a part
of our twentieth century civilization?
Weights and Measures.
In regard to weights and measures,
do you know that when you buy meat,
in eight cases out of ten, you don't
get the amount you pay for? Do you
know that many grocers use a liquid
measure quart for cranberries and
such things, instead of Il dry measure
| quart?
Do you buy your potatoes ami APP
pies measured in peach basket, or
| "A dry measure bushel?
Have you noticed the ingenious peck
| measure used by some OF our gro
GERS? Instead of the low, fiat peck,
with a large surface to be rounded up
| for good measure, the new one is
| long and deep, and If the apples are
large, there are more spaces than
| fruit and two or three apples placed
on top give the rounded-up measure
ment
| II might go on and name many other
| things, but my experiences along this
line would III book. These are only
u few of the things awaiting reform,
and under the direction of our worthy
president and her able executive
board, there IN much that the Fed
Grafton o Clubs which represents 100
of the thinking and doing women OF
Marion might do
With the assistance of the health
officer we might ask our groceries
bakeries and meat shops TO go on the
clean list-and agree to patronize only
those who promise to keep their places
in a sanitary condition.
We now have sealer of weights
and measures. We might use oui
efforts to secure Just weights anc
measures of the food we buy.
We might use our united efforts to-
ward securing manual training in oul
schools; why should our city fall be-
hind others in this regaih?
Why Keep Schools Shut
We might use our influence I'm Gre
ating a public sentiment toward fur'
ther uses for our costly school build
ings. The boys of our town who arr
unable to pay the admittance fee t
= the Y. NJ. c. A. have no place to spen'
the evenings, except in cheap theater'
0 and moving picture shows, and nam
= around the saloons, while these schoo
buildings sit silent and deserted. Shal
c we keep them warmed at night that
u few flowers in the windows may no
a perish. while the boys of our city roam
e the streets, because perchance the.
T. might have to be swept again II used
e or il might inconvenience the ianitor
t Emerson might still find here in Ma
e rlon, "things in the saddle, ridinI
= mankind" and it was a good man
Years ago that Greek phllosophe
Z protested against taking more though
u for our cattle and other possession
than for the rearing of our sons,
8 Let us select some one thing, an
say This one thing L do" We nav
10 proved that women can do the thlns
Is they set out to do, and that 1t is en-