Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-27
STILL WAITING.

The suEg estion Is heard by the Iowa
| teachers that they wait awhile for
their pensions That sounds familiar.
| That IS what they hare always heard.
| There were new buildings. new
grounds. new eyrns new a hundred
! things or perhaps old debts. which
! always stood between the teachers and
the possibility OF getting a much
needed Increase IN salary. No doubt,
the presidents theory Of watchfuI
waiting dates back 10 his professional
days. He may have learned what 1t
| means. while hoping and waiting
awhile for the better salaries that
| neyer came.
IS THIS YOUR SONpR DAUGHTER
ICedar Rapids Republican,
! A mother Of girls. not Of Cedar Rap
| DIS, but Of Iowa, nevertheless. com
/ planned 10 q friend the other day tina;
| she couldn't find, in her own social
stratuEn, q young man she considered
[ fl TO marry her girl. She said in sum
and substance that the young men o!
| that set dld not amount to anything
Some Of them were downright tough.
others worthless and a few were mere
J liolliDs pd.lD!S. LIE
| for which she had been looking she had
not been able 10 find among the many
young men who buzzed about ne!
| daughters mead.
| The friend 10 whom this complaint
was made told her that she would be
most likely 10 find the kind of a man
she was looking for coming up from
! the social strata that she now consid.
cred beneath herself. He told her no
| ~ despise the young meH who were
| now working. their way thru school!
and coIieges or Who coming from hum
| bic circumstances were now beginning
al The bottom Of some business or 9TH
or. Twenty years from now" he TOLD
here those young men may be leaders
| in their communities The yount
men who are laughed at when they en-
| ter a. college or a city are the men o.
| the future. il may be.
But while Il may be admitted tina;
th.s woman Of particular tastes fount
few desirable men in her own set--anf
that IL true IN many places-whiie he
tconeeption Of son-in-law was some
thing above a cisaret smoking hanger
On, r. might have been asked what sh'
had ~ offer to the young men in tn
way Of daughter fit to be an earnes
lynan's yife--fdr she was looking for ar
earnest man. II Il may be asked, rs
ths your sonZ may II not also be ask
Cd Us this your daugnter?" Girls arr
more apt 70 turn out well on the tol
than ooys They are 80 shielded thai
ltaey weather the besetting temptations
Ios the idle social lie better but might
- 30 u1v m enter
like complaint about the scarcity Of
kris IN her own set fit to make goot
y9yes Tor men who want TO get aheat
n The worjdg Rouge and high-hee
gsgoes. exposed legs and barred BOSOM
do nlsse things recommend them
seiyes 70 faornsrs who are ambitioui
lfor their sonss
E1t on the whole, we would say tina
the paotberx nj daughters are oherin'
Iaboest ,wo ~ one ar compared with TN
mothers Of sons 10 the ulatrinaonia
iM&flesz.
THE no CALLED Blue LAWS
4 fGio1z CITY Journal
tynk<sr existing 80 called 5i.e LAVE
a<,x,,..6 wj,jn Iowa AZ q state was ye
y<nsssx many activities now common
IN EBp1ay mere prohibited, Specihe'
am ssses0 en3.s such ~ "dancine. nunt
issy, si,0ytsii1S 81 tss.-se racln& IN
lesDH8z Uylt3aaaiy aii the amusement
! e1,uoYts, 10 mat early dcy. are fornid
ssp, T'5se "dastprf!rss IN any manner
/ q sosys,;pj8x asseps5y or private lam
Issys lis pIsIed under ban the mos
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