Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1910 — The Course of Culture. [ARTICLE]

The Course of Culture.

“And so your race is gradually becoming civilizedsays the tourist to the chieftain of the savage tribe on the remote and almost inaccessible islai^l. The chieftain proudly twines a pair of suspenders about his high silk hat, and replies: "Indeed, yes. There seems to be no cessation of the wave of culture that struck our isle about two years ago. Why* now we even call our tomtoms Thomas-Thomases.”