The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-19
OF Interest
To Women

today, the women of Iowa and Keo-
kuk woman, especially, should be given
great credit for their part In the nurs-
ing OF the wounded soldiers and the
alienation OF their suffering, with
such means as were at hand. In
August OF 1863, Governor Kirkwood
appointed Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer Of
| keokuk. state sanitary agent She
entered at once upon her work. and
proved to be a most efficient and enar-
getic leader In the cause to which she
devoted her entire time and best
energies from the day OF her appoint
ment to the close of the war, Governor
Cue tells us in his Iowa history. She
made frequent trips to the armies,
camps and hospitals wherever Iowa
soldiers were to be found. looking
carefully into their conditions and
was untiring in her labors to alleviate
their suffer1ngs. At convention at
Muscatine In October, 1863, Annie
wittenmyer proposed that steps be
taken for the care and education OF
Iowa soldiers.
Besides Mrs. Wittenmyer, Governor
Cue tells us there was Mrs. A. e. Har-
land, who procured pass from Secre-
tary Stanton, himself, to take herself
and a lady companion through the
lines. At st. Louis she procured a
steamboat and supplies and fastened
at once to the battlefields. She and her
companion were the only ones to gain
admission to the lines. She obtained
permission of the authorities to bring
q steamboat load OF the wounded to
keokuk, to the hospital which is now
the old Estes house building.
Mrs. J. T. Fales is honored in being
| the first Iowa woman to visit the
army, and Mrs. 1. K. Fuller, wife Of
1.-THE chaplain of the First Infantry went
with her husband and was the first
army nurse to be appointed.
When the International Council Of
women met in Rome last spring, a
German diplomat spoke before the
council and Of course spoke Of the
question which was most discussed at
the council, equal suffrage.
"Ah," he said, the Italian women
do not think about the vote at all.
The French and the German women
want it, but they want other things
more. The English women want 1t
very much, but unhappily, those who
want it most are mad And the
/ American women know very we'll
that they have the world in their
hands already
The diplomat made clever speech.
but did not express profound truth.
It is, however fact that masculine
brutality" and 'enslaved wives" are
mot words used in this country in suf-
frage arguments. Back Of the move
ment here Is the wish OF the govern
ed to have expression on the govern
ment. II every man would think
just what it would mean to him to
have his vote taken away from him,
he can In that thought get the view
4 point OF the women who wish for
equal suffrage.
$ In the Century magazine for Octo-
Der is short article by Olive
tShreiner on War, giving the woman's
!, viewpoint She says: I'm be-
sieged city, men in the streets might
sieze upon statues and marble cary
;, ings from public buildings and gal
i leries and hurl them in to stop the
breaches made in their ramparts, I'M
consideringly, because they came
first to hand. One man, however,
would not do this-the sculptor.
i Mems bodies are our women's work
of art. Had we power to control, we
would never carelessly throw them
in to fill up the gaps in human rela-
/ tionship' She further says women
i pay the first cost Of all human life.
War will pass when women who
know better than anyone else what
a human life costs, shall have a
i share in the control Of modern ma
d tional life
u Very few people know who estab-
!. lished the first Sunday school. 1t
:. was Robert Raikes, printer by trade,
who lived in Glouster, England. 1t
was $50 years ago and he had no idea
that he was launching great move
ment that would in less than a cen.
fury. circle the world. He only
knew that the children in that fish
J ing village needed some religious
training and he knew the Bible was
the best source whence that training
come: so he started Bible classes
and out of 1t came the school. Col
leges are now opening departments
where one may take training to be.
come a Sunday school teacher, just AZ