Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-17
WHEN EN-. Posi- CANE TO IOWA

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WHEN EN-. POST CAME TO IOWA.
/ One Emily Post is contributing ar
ticles to an eastern publication on a
! trip by Motor to the Fair" These
articles are presumed to be graphic
account of motor journey across the
continent. Mainly they are to be taken
as humorous though their writer evil
IDENTIFY has not intended to be especially
funny. However in instances she has
made them ridiculous to the minds of
the middle west
! In the first place and the first ar
| ticle Emily begins by impressing upon
the reader the idea that she is of the
idle oh, seeking something and some
what to relieve ennui. In desperation
she concludes to auto across America.
She doesn't know anything about the
or an ordinary Englishman would be
supposed to know. and looks west as
Columbus did when his personally con-
Quoted excursion started 500 years ago.
Emilys account of her start would be
funny if it were not prosy and builded
entirely about herself She starts in a
wave her good bye as the grandees
saluted Columbus She's off in a blaze
of glory.
Hotels bother her shamefully She
demands the sort of living that she
plainly hints she has been used to- Is
astonished to find decent accommoda-
the artistic as well as the purely phys
ical comforts. Rooms must be finished
in the Louis Somethingorother style,
dining rooms must appeal to Emily's
highly cultivated senses. If she had
gone to church she'd have demanded
st. Paul's or Rheims cathedral. You
couldn't get it good enough for Emily.
She impresses you that she was used
to the very limit and unhappy without
it. You get the idea that EN- is used to
lolling back comfortably with her hat
on where kings and kaisers stand at
attention with their crowns in their
hands. And SO from time to time
Emily was disappointed. Especially so
in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. The
hotels at Cedar Rapids were fierce
when judged by the palatial style
which Emily had been accustomed to
from childhood. At one of Des Moines'
leading hotels she couldn't get coffee
in her room and the maid advised her
10 put IT call for morning SC that
Sc could get down in time for break
fast. Faugh. Imagine what Emily's
feelings must have been when the cof-
fee failed to come up borne by train
of odalisques headed by an incense
bearer. OF course Emily didn't need
the incense so much as she did the
coffee, bee" use Emily hadn't done
thing but burn her own incense from
the time she put pen to paper
And the roads were rotten. No, EN-
lily doesn't say rotten" Emily and
her language are perfectly proper Not
being at home she didn't have the man
agement and the nviip Sbeihea,1od ind the
hotel RACED to the foundations. We are
even left anxiously specializing whether
she did or didn't get her coffee. Also,
chic refraiped from having a fowpshin
trustee hanged at each crossroads.
And so she went on thru Iowa.
The general impression in Iowa is
that EN- is pretty much OF bluff; that
she hasn't been used to anything much
better than she got in Iowa hotels
That she is like lot of people who
never had -or: much at home who kick
on everything in sight when they travel
in an attempt to impress with their
importance at home. Not that it makes
any difference to Iowa for Iowa didn't
know that Emily was in our midst until
somebody happened to run across a
stray copy Of Golfers Weekly when
there was nothing worth while read
ing about and CHANGED to notice Emily's
rawlings.
the worst Of it on the roads. Emily
| was right once. Our roads are rotten,
compared with those Of Illonois, In
diana and other east lying states.