The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
Of Interest to Women
BY w,rona evans Reeves.

kuk who appear at. certain offices on
Thursday morning with as much
regularity as the telephone or gas
collector. have been selling for the
last month, along with their other
magazines. the Country Gentleman
because it has carried in that time
| a series of articles on Iowa. written
iby Ed. Howe. The articles enume-
rate large list of things in which
| Iowa excels from agricultural pro-
ducts to her great men.
Howe says the highest price ever
| paid for draft horse, $4,000, was
paid for a horse bred in Iowa and
| the purchase price was paid by an
Iowa man.
Colonel George Watson French Of
Davenport, has the finest Holstein
cattle in America if the highest
prizes awarded are an Indication.
w. N. Marsh Of Waterloo, has in
his herd of Guernseys five head from
King Georges herd in England.
In speaking of Iowa's manufac-
tories he says the first centrifugal
cream separator used in America was
shipped to Iowa from Denmark and
now Waterloo manufactures more
cream separators than any other
town in the world.
Referring to famous Iowa men he
says, recently at railroad presi-
dents dinner in New York six of
them came from Iowa. Hoover and
Billy Sunday and Theodore N. Vail
of baseball fame. all came from
Iowa. Joseph Fort Newton, an Iowa
man, occupies DR.. Surgeons pulpit
in London. Referring to Chief JUS
nf 0ly,,ly &c toN
says:
towns of Iowa to the bench of tho
man who for twenty-eight years so
country as to give him rank among
the greatest judges of that tribunal;
a high authority has said that it is
not to his disadvantage to compare
him with John Marshall and Judge
Story.
The writer takes a crack at Iowa's
artistic sense in describing West
ward Ho, that enormous painting
familiar to everyone who has been
in the Iowa capitol. He says:
1t was painted by a noted eastern
artist; it is symbolic. significant,
beautiful, and very large; but the
farmers said the yoke on the oxen
did not look like an OK yoke. And
the artist was compelled to change
it. Then the farmers said the man
driving the oxen was on the wrong
side, but this inaccuracy was for the
time dropped, the artist saying it
was congressional necessity. But
every day grumbling is heard about
the drivers being on the wrong side
of the oxen, and the matter may
come up in the legislature.
In a recent issue of the London
Illustrated News there is an article
which reflects the wonder which the
English people have had over the
English language as 1t is spoken by
the soldiers from the states. They
seem quite unconscious of the fact
that the American men have found
this language and their idioms equal
ly strange.
This English journal laboriously
enumerates some of the Americans
strange phraseology in this way:
Take such an ordinary word as
'homely. Now that in America means
plain or ordinary looking and not
home-like. There is, too, the some
what similar American word 'ornery'
which means common or rough-al-
most rude-but not ordinary.
COR again the word angry is
usually expressed in America by
mad very angry becomes mad
clear through and angry with be-
comes mad at
ITO go riding in the United States
means to go driving. Harness reins
are known as lines.
You never hear the word drawing
room in everyday America; it is par
lor, and the expression L have COM
pany' indicates the presence of visi-
tors. Boots are always called shoes,
the bowler hat is known as a derby,
and the Hornberg and Alpine hats
are called fedoras.
There is no such expression In the
states as mate; they always say
partner.
Governor is invariably boss among
the people at large, while in business
Offices it becomes the chief.
"All shops are stores in America.
1.-The English frock coat is known
as Prince Albert. The topper or
silk hat is known as a stove-pipe or
top hat. waistcoast is called
vest, and trousers are called pants"
He gravely closes the article by
saying, "a book, and it might be
big book is asking to be written on
curiosities of common conversation"
1t probably hasn't occurred to an
Englishman's mind that the men from
the states have smiled and wondered
at their expressions such as calling a
dry godos store draper; a hard
ware store the iron mongers: SINH
larity of appearance as bly,, and hun
dreds of other expressions strange to
our ears.
An Iowa woman, Bertha NJ. Sham
baugh, was the author of the Noyem-