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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09

and the rout of her opponents are giv- ing great satisfaction to the suffragists of Illinois.
 Another experiment with women in social and civic service is being tried in Philadelphia The Mayor there has appointed woman as a street cleaning inspector, and the Phiiadel- phia newspapers report that the only people not pleased with the innovation are the contractors for street cleaning ing who fear that slovenly or ineffi- ctent work will not be easily passed by a woman. The people who have most reason to be thankful are the
 mothers in the tenement regions, to whom clean streets and proper re- movaI of filth and garbage mean a definite and distinct lowering of the sickness and morality rates among their little ones.
 The meeting of the suffrage work CTS of Fairfield County which was held at GIenbrook last Tuesday was a great success Mrs. H. H. Knox of New Canaan, chairman of the Fairfield County workers, came down from her cottage in Peru Vermont on the pre- ceding day on purpose to be on hand for the meeting. There were fine re- ports of work done during the past month and much enthusiasm was created by the account of progress made in Washington, with regard to the amendment to the United States Constitution.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09

Several couples were seen at a sum naer hotel the other day doing a grace ffu1 waltz, but the management is try ing to keep this anticipated exhibit out of the papers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09
Notice

For 6orGy-seven years uge have been conducting business at GllG B1ue old Iocattom, cOrncr of Main and John streets, FfdgepOrt, Conn, and OuE SDere continuously. We have EeCelVel 1no paid out on demand without DO Hce millions of dollars of money qlT Posated with us and VyO continue e receive money subject to nepcsleqli1 GLeck af sight. on which we aNp sSnFee per cent. per annune ereel1ee tO uOO each account monthly. We g0llcla Lne accounts of fn6fvfduals. buseneg- ..SHs HnlS and corporations. and ga e@n deposit money. checszs or dEuflcs ~ An0 leave 1t for ono day,On5 week. ono H1onth OF one year. and draw iuegFaa1 S4 Ae for any time Ae is left with Wr-
 we give to the business OuR GHFgKua personal attention as the oldest lrn4 oH private bankers fin this g6aee-
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09
C1MANEAsY, BEST HAND soAF

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09

The black -and-white combination in footwear continues to be liked.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09
THE. SOUTHLAND SCHOOL, Inc

43t WASHINGTON AVENUE
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09

and the rout of her opponents are giv- ing great satisfaction to the suffragists of Illinois.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20

thru mountains. in lands which were
unknown or uncivilixed 100 years ago.
The locomotive has made possible our
great cities and seaports: 1t has Gre
ated states out OF vast vacant terri
tories. Without 1t the products Of the
world would practically remain where
they grew. and only small fraction Of
what is raised would ever be grown.
The greatest working instrument of
industry in times Of peace. yet equally
essential to modern warfare. It u the
shuttle which weaves the fabric Of q
nation. by reason Of easy and con-
slant INSTRUMENTATION. 1t has be-
come in these days the pioneer. and
people. pulpit and press now follow in
its wake instead Of blazing for 1t .
path. So dependent upon Its service
have we become that to utterly par
alyze its operation for long would
mean death from cold and famine to
millions Of our people.
Let US then. think kindly OF this
machine. for 1t has done
vastly more good than harm. and.
while often used AZ the instrument OF
financiers in the past, 1t
really deserves better treatment OF our
law makers than has been accorded in
these latter days.-H. H. Windsor In
the September Popular Mechanics
Mara zine
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20

content with these alone. There are
many small lakes in the state that
could be made valuable as pleasure
resorts by just little fixing. Not all
Iowa people can spend time at Clear
Lake, Okoboji. Storm Lake. or at
the larger watering places because
Of time and expense. II such bodies
as Wall lake were to be included In
the state system of parks and kept
up, they would return the expendi-
ture in dollars and cents hundred
fold. witness what the cities OF
Iowa are doing toward building up
and increasing their park areas. Why
should the state not do the same?
The cost would be small. And what
great satisfaction and pleasure the
people Of the state could take from
them. We talk big about our natural
resources. but we surrender to com
mercialism that which nature seems TO
have dedicated to our pleasure. We
are spending 100000 to buy addi-
tional ground for the capitol improve
ment at Des Moines. How much
more good would be done II that
money,swere invested in buying ground
bordering the lakes and an improve
ment Of the lakes, making them real
pleasure resorts for the people OF the
state. The Improvements would then
be distributed around the state for
adj the people to enjoy. Only a com
paratively few people Of Iowa Will
ever see the capitol grounds at Des
Moines: they VIII never AFFORD the
people Of the state any pleasure; they
will never act as breeding places for
fish,. animals and winged game. Would
that every county, could, have fresh
water lake suitably improved. But the
state should improve such opportun-
tiles as it has. Even in Iowa we need
elbow room and breathing places.
Motor vehicles are becoming cheap in
price. Distance is being narrowed
down. The people are constantly seek
ing real pleasure. 1t should not be
made hard to find.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20
START AT THE TOP.

1t is deplorable but It Is a fact that
the average young man Of today ex-
pects to start IN life where his father
leaves of. II he is to be merchan.
he wants to start in with fathers bus
mess and when he returns from coll
lege Is possessed Of the idea that
father should turn the business over
TO him and accept his JUDGMENT on
every point in issue. There is cock
sureness about the average collegian
that Is decidedly refreshing IL It il
amusing. He has mind that skips all
the trivial things OF life. He skips over
the fact that father has served forty
years In the hard school Of experience.
that he started with an education just
as good for practical purposes az the
boy has. and that he started at the
bottom and has made good in every
department OF the game. Father sorted
apples in the back room, he candled
eggs. he drove the delivery. he COPIED
with the complaints from the house.
wives. he graduated to q counter Job,
then was given a department, probably
did service on the road, and finally
succeeded to the business. Father made
a success Of it because he was a hard
worker. understood the business from
a to and was competent to handle
every line he carried. Father knew
when any line was being sighted and
knowing remedied the evil. The boy
fresh from college unschooled In bust
ness matters. finds It impossible to
grasp the multitude OF details connect
ed with the business. the trade IL not
large enough to permit hiring an
expert for each department, 30 when
fathers experienced hand IL removed.
the business goes to the wall-absorb-
ed by a more experienced rival. or
course. the way TO remedy all this is
to give the boy business training. In
protection to himself his father should
see that tho boy has practical bust
ness training. The difficulty in the
way il the boy himself. He rebels at
the idea Of STOPPING to such degrading
labor. He considers 1t beneath his
standing TO labor at the minor details
Of the business. 1t is true in every vo-
cation of life. Our boys do not take
kindly to anything but the positions OF
trust and Importance. They have no
knowledge that they must At them :
selves for the position. Our colleges
do not teach that fitness for big posi-
tions are founded on service and mas
terry of many small ones.
The wise business man gives his boy
what he thinks is proper not what he
can afford. He assigns him small dut-
les while at tender age-not because
ne IL unable to hire men for the task,
but because 1t IL good for the boy. He
trains him in the paths of industry
and integrity. 30 that when he leaves
his school he is capable Of taking NJ
the work that father lays down.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20
As TO FAIRS.

The state fair opened its gates Tor
the fifty-nint time today. 1t is a good
Fair. big splendid exposition of Iowa
best. and worth seeing from the stand
points OF pleasure and education. 1t Is
= stockmans and farmers fair mainly.
The horse racing and the vaudeville
and the Like are incidentals. What the
fair really Is are the acres Of farm ma
chinery and labor saving devices, the
barns crowded with cattle OF all breeds,
the great horses At to draw kings
chariot or q manure spreader, the rec
tangu,ar swine and all the various
productions Of state which might II it
were SO minded build Chinese wall
about it and live in luxury on its own
resources. That's the fair.
The county fairs are simply replicas
Of the state fair, not SO vast but in in
stances quite as good in quality. Mar
shall county viii show as fine swine as
the state fair. It will bring cattle fit
to show In any company. Its horses
are not to be excelled. And the pro-
ducts Of the farm
Right there the average county fair,
indeed practically every county fair in
iowa lacks. There is not the display
OF plant production commensurate with
the soil and the greatness Of Iowa
farms. Usually the showing OF farm
and garden and orchard products is
disappointing. Not because the pro-
hucts do not exist Ii the county but
because they are not shown.
A county fair in Iowa is an agri-
cultural fair. 1t ought to show agri-
culture at Its best. It is an advertise
ment Of the soil and its fertility. of the
methods OF farming and the intelli-
gence Of those who farm when the
plant products overflow the space set
aside for their display. Why don't
those who raise them show them?
The state fair is fine thing. The
county fair Is more to the county than
the state fair u to the state. It is
moro intimately part Of US, more close
ly q neighborhood affair. 1t is ours.
Lets make 1t so.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20
Iona Newspapers
vAGAR1Es OF THE Law.

tDes Moines Register and Leader.l
III is also a well-recognized prin-
ciple that in the state Of mental ex.
altation accompanying courtship state
ments made as to mental. moral or
financial qualifications Of the parties
shall not be too closely scrutinized. nor
shall they be held to a strict accoun,a-
bility therefor"
With this summing up OF the law.
the supreme court of New York refuses
to grant young wife any relief be-
cause she was grossly deceived by her
husband.
But in Iowa it is held enough to give
a paroled prisoner a long term in the
penitentiary that he omitted one part
OF his record in his wooing. altho his
wife enters no complaint and refuses
now to attach any importance to the
omission.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20
than special laws for special crimes.
Note the Cosson laws In Iowa and the
Mann law as a national measure.
x.RAy SKIRTS AND the POLICE.

AT Portland, Ore. the chief Of police
has issued orders to arrest every wom
an found wearing the new X-ray skirt
on the street. The chief acted under
orders from the mayor Of the city.
The mayor had gone out on tour Of
quiet observation. What he saw sent
him hurrying back to his office to
issue the order. He was 50 much i'm
pressed that he placed ban on dresses
cut decollete with an accent on the
last syllable. on sheath skirts which
cling too clingy and slit skirts where
the shears slipped and cut too far.
The mayor of Portland will not ge;
far in this crusade. There IL a little
too much Of the Ben Butler business
about the order. He can scarcely ar
rest all the respectable women who de-
sire to dress themselves as tho they
were not reputable. His classification is
going to make him trouble: for decent
but foolish women sometimes incline
70 daring in dress. They think it
"dashing" instead Of immodest 1t is
going to be task for a greater than
the mayor Of Portland to differentiate
between foolishness and immodesty.
Solomon himself would not have is
sued the order. He would have known
better. For Solomon was some wise
guy"
Nevertheless the mayor had good
reason to be shocked. The tendency is
to immodesty in the most advanced
feminine fashions. And still. there is
much to be said in favor OF the modi-
fed modes in vogue For the first time
In a long period women have ceased
to build humps on themselves. The
ancient hustle is gone. The hoop skirt
Of our mothers and grandmorhers has
long since rusted on the ash heap. The
back. The modified modes for women
with their lines of beauty are the most
pleasing and indeed the most sensible
which have been in favor, 10 for these
many long years. The blouse effects
on the younger girls are especially
adapted to the freshness and 1.-THE at
Effectiveness Of their wearers.
I, is only the silly woman who is
attracted to the frenchified and i'm
modest styles for her own or her
daughters wear. OF course there are
other women who wear striking and
immodest costumes as a matter OF pro-
fessional advertising but they are not
included or referred to directly here.
1t is the silly, empty headed woman
who says in her attire as she says in
her words and manner that she lacks
taste and judgment and proper regard
for her own dignity, who copies the
modes Of the denli monde in dress
because such modes draw eyes and at
tract the notice SO craved by weak
minds.
But we can't arrest and fine them IN
the police courts. The mayor Of Port
| land may make bluff at /: but he nor
any other mayor can do it and retain
popular approval But If a man were
to walk down the street in his nainsook
underwear, which is a much more
modest and less suggestive array than
some Of the advanced" styles for
women we would all approve arrest
and fine for disorderly conduct. What?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20
THE WORD OF GOSSIP.
[Iowa City Citizen.l


The words Of tale bearer are as
wounds"
If all wounds inflicted on the human
body were just punishment for moral
transgression there would be little
force to the smile Of the orient au-
thor of the proverb quoted. But when
we consider that physical hurt is often
inflicted on the innocent, upon those
who do not deserve it, and who have
no protection from it, the strength OF
his comparison is apparent.
The tale bearer Is despised because
he violates an unwritten code OF hon
or. which We do not always analyze
when we apply 1t. 1t is not alone that
he strikes behind the back. Often he
Injuries the innocent. Persons who have
little connection with the original IN
cident the gossipers hastens to spread
about the neighborhood. may be in
volved in its Inagnification and suffer
great harm from the idle words that
travel around the community.
The words Of the tale bearer are
as wounds" A daily reminder Of this
will do us good.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20
Topics of the Times

Mark in white that day whose low
descending sun does not see the wrecks
OF half dozen automobiles in the
bitches OF Iowa and does not hear the
voices Of mourning in dozen homes.
Perhaps 1t is significant, following
the disclosures Of the arson trust" to
note that an undertaken ran his auto
over man in Chicago.
MT. hapg God who succeeds Colonel
aHrvey as editor of Harper's says he
intends to make it the Organ of fem
intsm" in this country. OF course then
he will change the dress of the paper.
The general reports from the corn
indicate three quarters crop. Class
In arithmetic: If the crop is three
quarters and the price one and a half
what will be the percentage OF gain or
loss,
The speed disease kills more people
in day than smallpox does in ten
years. And we quarantine a case Of
smallpox instanter.
One school distric. in Idaho con.
tains a24 square miles. Some excuse
for children getting home after the
chores are done in Ada county, Idaho.
The impression is that Thaw's
wealthy relatives thawed loose from a
lot of cash before the escape was ac-
complished.
Such men as Sulzer do not stop re-
form. they merely give those who OPP
pose reform opportunity to work on
| wea kninds. True reform is evolution
The Suffers and those who oppose 1t
| are ants in the path Of glacier.
Those Texas democrats who are
| raising fund to help out Mr.. Bryan's
| salary must have sold a section or sc
| Of Texas land to northerners and have
| more money than they know what tc
! do with.
Really 1t Is unfair TO blame pro-
gressive republicanism because Pen
rose now seems to think well Of 1t.
| It Is worth being scared over tn,
corn crop merely to feel the delightful
sensation Of safety when the scare Il
| all over.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20
TOO MANY SUCH BOYS.
(Burlington Hawkeye.]


The boy who knows II all, who calls
grey-headed men by their first name,
VINO whistles regardless Of the fact
that others are busy and may be dis
turbed. who takes the greatest delight
in ali sorts Of outlandish noises. and
who puffs his cigarette like a college
youth-this lad OF little promise and
less fulflment is becoming altogether
too numerous. He never thinks of a
job. and he is very particular about
the situation that he accepts" There
must not be too much work. and he
must have time for social affairs. etc.
He knows everything. and he knows
that everything better than. anybody
else ever knew it or ever will know it.
That is in his own imagination.
Perhaps, If fond parents had been
less foolish and less fond. and had
found that lad a job where he would
have learned 10 do work, good hard.
physical labor. that might have made
man OF him. 1t would have taken
the conceit out of him, and brought out
and developed his good qualities. which
simply dry up and vanish when he
lands a position" II he Is fitted for
positions. he will find them the more
surely and the more easily. by grad
uating from the school Of real, honest,
hard work. If not, there will always
be fine. big wages for him In the
ranks Of the workers, among the men
who hold the jobs. If he is lacking in
the necessary ability. he Will never
hold anything but the poorest posi-
tions. at small salaries, and he will
not hold them long
But. OF course, neither he nor his
parents will realize these facts. and
they will always be fishing up some
more or less idiotic excuse to show
why the lad did not grow into q man
and get a mans position. but re-
manned moIlycoddle thru life. help
less and dependent upon others. and
of course never feeling q spark OF
gratitude toward those who are doine
for him. Many a lad. who had THE
making Of a real' man in him has be-
come worse than nothing, because hii
fond parents would think OF nothing
but situation and q salary for him
when 1t was a job and wages that ht
needed. Soon his would have been q
mans job and eventually he woult
have been called to some prominent
situation or have found his way to thu
front in some manner.
The lads who are started wrong arr
entirely too numerous.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20
OPPRESSION AS AN ASSET.

dubuque Telegraph-Herald.l
The special target of prejudice. the
Jews. have progressed incomparably
faster than any other people.
For oppression has developed In
them qualities which give them mas
terry in many lines.
Prejudice then, carries with it the
seeds of its own destruction.
The antidote for it is education. Sup
ply facts to minds that seek the truth
and prejudice will disappear from
these minds.
AS to the minds that prejudice
closes to truth, the orderly processes
Of time will effect to open them.
The truth. which Is to say knowl-
edge of the facts Of life and of peo-
pies. is the greatest emancipa,inz
force in the world.
"Ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make We free"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-20
SPECIAL LAWS FOR SPECIAL GRIMES.

The evidence Of Digs, defendant in
the celebrated case Of Dtggs-Caminet,i
Is a confession Of such utter disregard
for all moral obligation that those who
read it will agree that such men as he
are better and the communities they
infest better when they are retired to
the seclusion OF imprisonment. On gen.
eral principles Digs belongs under re-
straint His testimony is sufficient evil
dence that ne is a libertine Of the most
shameless type, an unfaithful husband,
and a son whose misdeeds m ade his pa
rents, lives an utter hell. 1t doesn't mat
ter that he Is making his shameless con-
fession in public in the hope to escape
thru a technically the consequences of
his violation Of the federal law against
white slavery. On general principles
such men are dangerous when at large.
He ought 10 be in penitenriary.
Digs idea and that Of his lawyers
is 10 establish that he couldn't shake"
ed on going with him. The hope is that
the charge of conveying her across
state lines for immoral purposes may
be thus evaded and submerged in the
subterfuge that he took her in terror
Of consequences which might have fol-
lowed leaving her behind. If Diggs can
escape the clutches Of the federal law
q special law. then he will feel that he
IS practically out OF danger. Still, these
no doubt have severe statutes against
fewdness and adultery and kindred
crimes.
We are assured by those who ac-
claim happily the decision against the
Cosson law and assert tina, It has
gone the wayit ought to CO." that the
state Of Iowa has statutory enactmetns
which render the Cosson law redund-
ant and unnecessary. We have severe
statutes aimed at this sort Of irnmor-
atty but the Digs and the white slav-
ers OF one and another degree have no
fear OF the statutes. The special law
- the barrier. So the federal law
- the snubbing post where the Digs
and other immoralists for diversion or
~ q profession and avocation bring up
with short turn. Until the Mann law
came into effect there was no serious
check upon interstate vice Of this char
acter. Until the Cosson law was en-
acted the red lighte scarcely iickered
ut the threat OF previous statutes. Both
the Mann and the Cosson laws deliv-
cred. They worked. The special laws
had the pinch TO them.
Dtggs u not at all an uncommon
type. He and Cam have their con-
tsmporaries more numerous than the
average person imagines. The hunt
goes merrly on in cities outside Cali
fornia and the trip to Reno il made by
others. to other towns. Given money
which was not earned and time which
= not occupied and the feeling that
tAtheTS influence" 10 a barrier to
1unishment the Dtggs-Caminetti case
nay b the Brown-Jones case or the
8mith-Fannegan case and the town and
SAA4e any one may name.
This u day Of specializing. Nothing
= apeeialttss seems to work bettel