Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-01

1.-THE best place in the world. one ~
sometimes lonely for the old friends
California is land Of beautiful
| flowers and it has given women the
| suffrage. Come to California. 1t is on
the road to Paradise"
Mrs. Henry TAYLOR, Of Greenfield
| sometimes Familiarity known as MRS
! Good Roads Taylor" because she is
chairman of the Iowa State Good
! Roads Committee. recalled in a witty
"Reminiscences, the "absentees. Wha1
would we all do if we hadn't left our
husbands at home to earn the money
and take care of the babies; ana we
Thave left our husbands to look after
suffrage. / will offer the toast Here
to our husbands. Tho it's hard some
time to get on with them, we can't
live without Them"
Mrs. Warren Frederic Thuemmel. OF
New York City. who as Mrs. Julian
Richards. of Waterloo, was elected
president Of. the Iowa Federation at
the Davenport biennial, recOunted some
of the things for which Iowa is famous
and took exceptions-wittily- the
list which always aud especially III :
cludes and emphasizes Iowa's products
as pigs and corn" She was greeted
with a burst of laughter as she Incl
dentally added hens She said there
were other things in Iowa of just as
great importance, and she closed with
the hope you will all be free citizens
SOON ,.
Mrs. Horace Towner, Of Corning,
Iowa, and Washington. ID. C., wife of
Representative Towner, eulogized Iowa
OWL mo ne
description of her home state as "a
very vague place" She commented on
the personal touch, the aifectionate in
terest, Iowa women have for one an
other and she gave the toast in clos
! ing MAY the affections Of her people
like the rivers Of her borders flow to
an inseparable union
Mrs Carroll, Of Des lMoines, was also
a speaker, as was Mrs. Osborn, of New
Jersey, formerly of Red Oak. who
urged the conservation of the Iowa
wild flowers.
Miss Florence Ward. Of Washington.
D. c., formerly of Cedar Falls, came
in just before the breakfast was over.
Miss Ward is in charge of the home
economics department of the depart
ment of agriculture, Washington. At
ter few words from Miss Ward, Mrs.
Towner said she wished to tell the
Iowa women how greatly Miss Ward
was appreciated in Washington and
that friend had described her, in his
enthusiasm as "a hummer"
Favors Mrs. Dow For President.
The entertainment offered by the
Thirteenth Biennial is so ella borate
that Mrs Taylor expressed the general
feeling of a too great wealth of intel
may have intellectual as we'll as physi-
cal indigestion" The appreciation of
some of the many good things that
have come to the Iowa women was
voiced in three votes Of thanks at the
breakfast. One was to the manage
rent for its fine service, another for
the flowers and a third to the bien-
NAL board for what it has done for
Iowa women.
Iowa will favor Mrs. Frederic Dow.
former president of Illinois, for the
presidency. Mrs Josiah Evans Cowles,
of California. and Mrs. Nathaniel B.
Sheath. of Ohio, the two presidential
possibilities talked of, have not had
until the last few days. even the sup
port OF their own delegation. Mrs.
Cowles friends have been wearing her
button but not noticeably, for it is
underneath instead of outside their
adge.