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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
Soda in the Hamburger.

The state dairy and food commits
son reports that it has recently ex-
amined several samples of hambur-
ger steak which we're found TO be
preserved with suiphite of soda. The
sale OF articles of food preserved
with supplies is not only violation
of the food law. but an actual men
ace to health of the customer.
The use of preservatives In the
preparation of hamburger steak, etc,
is entirely uncaIled for. says the COM
nilsson. No intelligent butcher, who
uses sound wholesome meat in the
preparation of such meat products
and keeps his wares stored in the ice
box or refrigerator case, will need a
pTeservatiye. II is only the unscrup.
ulous dealer, who grinds meat Of a
questionable character and displays
the product on a warm counter, that
will use sulphites.
State dairy and food commissioner
Barney has instructed his inspect
ors to prosecute all cases arising
from the use of dangerous preserva-
tives in meat products and will in
sist on a maximum fine for those VIC
lating the law in this respect.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
The Bicycle Business.

Albany KnickerbockerPre For a
long time IT has been the fashion TO
suppose that the bicycle is drifting
steadily out of use II will be sur
prising to many to learn that in the
five years between 1909 and 1914 the
output of bicycles increased 70-7 per
cent in number and 66.1 pe- cent. IN
value. and that there were manufac-
tured in 1914 39s.se9 bicycles, valued
st s5,361.229.
The growth in the motorcycle in
dustry has been phenomenal. 1t re-
calls the swift development OF the
bicycle business twenty years ago.
An index OF how far we have trav-
eled since that time may be found in
the trifling disturbance which has
been created by the advent OF the
motorcycle as an efficient, high-class
factor in the fields of pleasure and
utility
IN 1909 there were manufactured
lS.62S motorcycles, valued at s3.015.-
9ss. In 1914 there were manufactured
52.793 motorcycles. valued at S12,306,-
447 Last years output was consid
erably larger, and this years shows
further gain 1t is likely that the
motorcycle output of 1916 will exceed
$50. 0oo, 900 in value. Statistics of the
automobile industry. dwarf these fig
ures. But we err when we conclude
that the automobile has driven the
bicycle or motorcycle from the road.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
WHAT OUR ACTRESSES LACK.

In discussion of the recent Shakespearean
revival In New York the World of that city
comments on the failure of American actresses
to rise to real competency III playing the great
roles of the master dramatist 1t recalls the IN
happy attempt of Maud Adams at playing
Juliet and says that Elsie Ferguson's Portia is
disappointing. These failures it lays to the in
ability of our really able women players to APP
preciate poetry and passion 1t is not SO much
lack of appreciation of poetic passion, The
Gate City thinks. as the self consciousness bred
of modern stage portrayal that is the matter.
Shakespeare's heroines dared to speak the
thought that was In them; TO express wildly
their emotions and their passions Our present
day actresses who seek to portray Juliet and
Portia are made reticent by convention. Our
stage thoughts aim at epigrams, condition
brought about since the productions of Oscar
Wilde have held sway on the stage. And soft has
come TO pass that emotions must be shown by
repression and our stage passion must be po-
lite IN words. no matter how much vulgarity OF
action it admits. The playgoer expects to
See the play; he Is less educated to hear it.
Talent trained TO meet the requirements OF
this sort of stage entertainment is badly pre-
pared for playing Portia and Juliet.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
WRONGFUL EXAMS"

Writing in the current Century. H. Adding
ton Bruce gives data from seemingly accurate
sources to prove that there in the public
schools of this country about seven million
children who are backward in their studies. -
Putting the best face the matter, this is a
bad showing for our school system. But it can
be discounted to extent in that back
ward" means simply inability to do the grade
work set for the children in the time allotted to
it. According to a report, in Kansas City the
grade failures amount to over forty-hve per
rent of the enrolment. This sort of thing is
an Indictment of the course of study: no intel
ligentlv made school requirements would be be-
yond almost half of the children in the schools
Another deceiving factor in the showing made
is that failures are listed promotions alone
they do not give figures on particular subjects
This lists as Backward children who show
proficiency in certain subjects but whose fail
ure in others prevents their advancement. But
a matter which concerns the interest of millions
of our children is of paramount Importance and
Mr. Bruce's article calls pertinent attention to
IL
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
Summer Eurs.

Cedar Falls Record: Whv is sun
mer fur?
This is indeed one of the sartorial
mysteries.
The ladies wear the thinnest Of
dainty dresses, presumably to keep
cool. Peek boo shirtwa.st9, when
condemned for one reason or another.
have been vigorously defended be-
cause of their comfort. The back of
the neck is the most vulnerable spot
for heat attacks. Keeping the base
of the brain at an equable tempera-
ture is one of the essentials OF sum-
mer satisfaction. And yet--bcre are
the furs in all their glory, and no
woman's summer toilet, we are told.
will be complete without hem
The ladies who wear them are, o,
course, the ones with the hot. high
shoes. And they are the same who.
in December and January snow,
went forth in pumps and thin silk
stockings, their necks alternately
barred TO biting winds and muffled TO
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
orioin Of the Word cioar.

New York Sun: The appeal OF AM
erican soldiers in Mexico for tobacco
recalls the fact that the word cigar"
is derived from Spanish word
cigarral lit ia from my garden) -
how many know from what '.cigarral'
is derived? When tobacco was taken
to Spain from the newly discovered
America the people planted 1t in their
gardens
When offering smoke to friend
a Spaniard would say, 'eEs de mi
ciarral lit is from my agrdenl :"
Through misunderstanding ON the
part of foreigners this expression was
corrupted The word "ciGarral' was
supposed to refer to the tobacco. and
in time was shortened to "cigarro'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
HARRINGTON.
. ~N~o ~>A &c

The farmers are trying to get
in their corn
Frank Shaw OF Croton was in
town here on business. Monday Of
this week.
Arthur Dickson went TO Alexandria,
No.. last Monday. coming home
Tuesday.
Crayton Rabb was in Keokuk Tues
day of last week on business.
Mrs. Arthur Dickson came home
last Tuesday with her husband. She
had been in Alexandra visiting her
father. j. Rose, the past week. Her
girls, Maude and Matte Dickson.
stayed for a longer visit with their
grandfather and other relatives.
Miss Annie Marshal returned home
last Wednesday from Milton, where
she had been called to her sisters
bedside, Mrs. Clayton Bell, who has
been very sick, but Is some better.
Mrs Marsh Philips came home
Monday from Fort Madison, after
spending few days with her daugh-
ter at that place.
Louie jacques Of Colorado. is here
visiting with VIM Jacques, his
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
our Pet Extrayaqanee.

DUBUQUE Times-Journal: II we had
poured all of our gasoline upon all OF
our paper and set fire to the saturated
mass, we could not be in much worse
case than that which threatens. For
common people are not going to have
any of either, ere long, unless we CO.
operate to take care of the situation
Immediately.
That careless day when the house
keeper busily invented new ways to
use up old newspapers is gone, though
let US hope, not forever. Only yes
terday she could afford to make old
papers save her heaps of work; with
them she cleaned the stove, wiped
grease from the frying pans, brushed
the mud from Johnny's shoes, coy
cred the floor when she fried dough
nuts, and then burned al the scraps
in the good cause of sanitation.
But now, all papers AMI waste rags
must be saved for the junk man at
the back door. or soon there will be
no nice wrapping paper and lovely
boxes for the parcels coming in at
the front door.
Something like $4,000 tons OF diff
ferent kinds OF paper and paper-board
are manufactured in the United
States every day. Much of it could
be turned over and over again, bu.
has not been, because one OF the
natiols most -willful extravagances is
that of wasting paper.
Now we are reminded by the gov
eminent that we ought to be careful
Seer etary Redfeld OF the departn emit
Of agriculture is sending letters to
1900 commercial organizations asking
cooperation in preventing a serious
shortage OF our paper making ma
terial
This particular economy. which in
cludes the savings of every kind OF
waste paper and rags, will react
directly TO the advantage OF every
household. 1t is not more difficult
than sending out the laundry Monday
morning and getting it back fresh and
fine at the end of the week although
the actual processes of collection and
distribution are different.
Those hcusekeepers who fail to do
their bit OF waste paper sa,yaging are
helping to promote widespread and
unaccustomed hardship.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
The GirPs Way is RIGHT.

Indianapolis Star: Miss Ida TarbeIl,
who seems to have assumed the role
of critic and general adviser OF wom-
en-, said complainingly when talking
10 body of Philadelphia teachers the
ether cay: The average girl looks
upon marriage as a personal expert
ment TO her own advantage, and not
a part of the great social plan.
The average girl undoubtedly does
do this, and is moved to her course
by one OF the best of reasons: when
she marries, it is her business nrst
and chiefly-her business and her
hus bands. Marriage is, OF course,
part of the social plan, and the girl
conforms to it, usually without think.
ing of it as plan any moro Than
she thinks of herself in general
way as member of the race or as a
human being. 1t is as an individual
that she acts, and should act in this
most personal of matters: she fol-
lows custom, instinct and inclination,
and takes no thought of the fact that
she is an element in the social plan.
Nor does she need to do so. II she
chooses well and wisely for herself;
if the man she selects is physically
and morally sound, and if she pos
sesses the same qualities, the inter
ests of society are sufficiently well
taken care of. 1t is right to have
high ideals of marriage, but ii is not
necessary for young woman to go
into it with the idea that she must
uplift society by the transa ction- The
performance of her duty to herself
and her family is all that society
asks. Miss Tarbell. who used to be-
distin guished by her level-headed-
ness, seems to have slipped cog.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

brother. having been called here to
attend his brothers funeral, nea,
West Point.
Miss Louie Welsing of Calumet,
Michigan. is visiting with her aunt,
Miss Louise Jacques, and other reIa.
tives.
Miss FTeda Woodruff left for her
home. in Kahoka, No, last Friday.
She has been visiting with her friend,
Miss Ruth Oneil. OF this place
VIM Mcintosh and wife spent
over Sunday at Bloomfield. visiting
relatives. They drove through In
their car.
Mrs. Harry Beeson Of Keoknk.
spent Friday and Saturday here.
visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Corns. and other relatives
The Pennington band played Deco
ration day at Bonaparte.
Ora Davidson and wife OF near
Primrose, spent Sunday evening at
the Mrs. Allie Wright home
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

the nose. No wonder last winter saw
one of the worst grip epidemics the
country has yet experienced.
Far be IL from US to injure the
business of our worthy friends the
furriers. II they feel they must foist
their wares on ladies' throats and
wrists in July and August, let, them
do their worst But are they nor a
bit short-sighted Ii the ladies all
die of heat prostEation during the dog
days-or rather. during the white fox.
days-who will then be alive to buy
next winters skunks and sables?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
TODAY'5 BIT OF VERSE
The GOLDEN MOMENT.

The sculptor stands before his modelled dream
Complete and perfect in the plastic claE
His statue rests and. half afraid 10 lay
His reyersnt hands upon il lest il seem
dissertation his heart beats are slo-,
AS fold fold the winding cloths are drawn
Gently away Yet when the last Is gone
He has that perfect moment few know.
So the days on which see you, Dear.
The hours of morning, noon and evening pass
And fall away, like slow sands through glass
Then there is left golden grain Of sand
The wondrous moment when your voice hear,
And feel within my clasp your slender hand
Able
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
He Bossed the Job.

Philadelphia Ledger: After Ole
Nose had been given Job the fore
man saw him comfortably seated on
the sand he was to shovel. directing
another dusky laborer. why, Nose.
he exclaimed. Il did not hire that
man. What's he doing here?" Il
got him er-doing my wuk, sah," re-
piled Nose who pays hiu?
does, sab: pays him dollah a day,
sab why that's all you receive.
Nose. How do you profit by the
transaction asked the amazed fore
man. Well" replied Nose, Il gets
to boss de job. doan' II"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

81 heard OF Cu:icura Soap and Ointment
and ] thousilt / would try them. Two
boxes Of CUticure Ointment and two cakes
OF Cuticura Soap healed me entirely"
{Signed) Miss Herbertine Durkfn. SAT
Sample Each Free by Mall
With s2-p. Skin Book on request Adj
dress postcard .'Cntiec-s, Dept. T, Bos-
tom" Sold throughout the world
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

and finally to cigar" @Cigarral' is
derived from the word "cigarra,"
meaning a grasshopper, because the
grasshopper abounded in the gardens
and there sang the loudest- The orig.
inal OF cigar" therefore is a grass
hopper.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

II is who carefully pegs his way up step by
step with his mind becoming wider and wider and
sressiveIy better able theme situation
perseyerng in what practical and
tratine his thought IT, who succeed in the great
est cegree.-IIexander Graham Bell
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

were rough ana iufamed and
the itching was SO intense
that I had to scratch which
made them bleed. I used
to be awake nights scratching
Eli the tine. / was not able
to put Eoy hands In water OF
do my work because 1t was
so painful. My hands were
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Republican,: In the
meantime. who is paying any atten-
ton 10 the candidates for vice-presi-
dent? Yet the man who is selected
for second place may be the president
OF the United States. There is only
one life between him and that high
ONCE and lives are precarioUs for
presidents as well as for the rest OF
US. No one can say that he will be
alive. four years from next March
fourth
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

A fine little trip up Salt river is being pre-
pared for a number of favorite sons. Boat will
leave Chicago this week.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
INTENSE ITCHING
OF RED BLOTCHES
On Hands. Went Up Arm to Shout
der, Then on Face. Awake
Nights Scratching.
HEALED BY CUTICURA
SOAP AND OINTMENT

AT first noticed little red b!otches on
my hands. and they went up my arm to my
shoulder and then on my face My hands
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

Probably the vice presidency was created so
that there might be one office that would seek
the man.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

Chief Iron Tail. whose face is on the buffalo
is dead but he is still running the street
car systems Of great and powerful country.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

In some cases the man who thinks he is Z
budding genius is only blooming idiot.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

AS between Bryan and Roosevelt, the or
binary man notes that the one weeps and the
other scolds-and Che ordinary man doesn It
care much for either exhibition of emotion
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07


Dubuque Times-Herald: The pri-
mary election and suffrage campaigns
are ended and no one is sorry, except
possibly an occasional candidate who
believes that with more time he would
have made better showing. The
national conventions are next In DO
litical importance and then there will
be comparative lull for time before
the opening of the campaign for the
November election
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The boom
for Colonel Roosevelt Matched too
early 10 endure the strain OF the few
days preceding the convention.
Cedar napiis Gazette: Although
the rate of tuition has been extraor-
dinarily high, Europe has learned
more in two years OF recent school.
ing than it ever knew A post-grad-
uate course along the same lines will
not be needed.
Muscatine Journal: Chicago hotel.
keepers are welcoming the coming
hosts but will be in no hurry to speed
the fat-walleted parting guests.
Fort Dodge Chronicle: What
Mexico needs is a de facto president
with head as cool as his feet
Waterloo Courier: Congressman
Greene says this country has the best
navy in the world. And it's a whole
month until the Fourth of July,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

The primary is now secondary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

Boone News-Republican Some
candidates will have to be satisfiel
With the thought that it is better to De
favorite sons than president.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
CHOICE SUMMER FICTION.

It is interesting to read in a Washington dis
patch that the government printers are at work
on twenty thousand copies of the army bill or
dered sin response to the public demand
At this distance, the move looks like d pre-
liminary step toward proving that the Wilson
undergraduates campaign has produced pre-
aredness; it may also provide Wilson orators
with rolling technical phrases to spout from
the stump little later on when the public be-
gins to wonder what has been really accom-
plished toward preparedness.
We hope twenty thousand intelligent people
will read the bill. but pray that none of
them may ever need to depend upon it for the
defense of their lives and thir homes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07

Fort Dodge Chronicle: What
Mexico needs is a de facto president
with head as cool as his feet.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
What the Dentists Are
Doing for Shattered J1zUS

"A young soldier" he said, good enough
looking to his own ideas, for man does not
readily admit the reverse, is struck in the face
by fragment Of she'll or by shrapnel bullet
His jaw is spintered. his face is torn. He can
scarcely breathe. or swallow. or speak; and ii
he be conscious. or when he RECEIVERS conscious.
ness, the idea crosses his mind that he is per-
manently deformed, and even perhaps hideous.
Can surgery offer greater comfort to any
man than than TO be able to tell such one that
1t can ease his PAIN restore his face remodel
his jaw?
Injuries to the nerves have also been
peculiarly common feature of this war. Many
of these are exqusitely painful and condemn
the men to torture as long as they are unre.
Ieved. {
This frequency of nerve wounds has been
attributed by some doctors to the speed Of rota-
ton of the modern rifle bullets and their high
degree OF heat. 1t must be remembered that
the nerve tissue Is extremely susceptible TO
injury.
The nerves most frequently injured are
those OF the arm and the leg.
common form OF nerve affection met with
Is that known as the CLAW hand. This
suits from injury Of the cubital nerve In the
upper arm The hand remains permanently
hooked like claw and the deformity Is often
accompanied by horrible burning sensation
Injuries to the nerves Of the right
very frequent In war, this part is most
exposed In aiming the rife.
There Is specially painful form of sciatic
paralysis of the legs that has often been brought
TO the surgeons. 1t has the characteristics of
stabbing and burning, of being exasperated by
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06

German bullet had muzzle velocity OF about
$500 feet per second. and therefore possessed
at one hundred yards sufficient energy TO raise
more than three quarters of ton to the height
OF one foot. Besides this forward momentum
the bullet, as 1t left the muzze. was revolving
on its long axis about $500 times the second;
and this rotary boring motion was by far its
most injurious property striking bone
Reconstruction, in post-mortem examination
that Is. after the soldiers death-of skulls
shattered by this momentum. so unprecedented
In warfare, showed that the "undeformed"
bullet passed completely through the head,
generally from the face backward. and came
out Of the back of the head and this emerscnce
occurred before the collapse OF the cranial
bones occurred. The undeformed bullet is that
which has in nowise been tempered with by
the soldier using it. had come. and has re.
NAMED, smoothsurfaced, from the ordnance
factory. 10 its place in the rifle barrel The
deformed bullet has been nicked by the knife
OF the soldier or by his teeth, or otherwise
roughened SO that when IL reaches its billet
in the enemy's head body. it produces the
butterfly" dumdum wound. This butterfly
effect is also assisted by the rotary motion.