The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-11
OF Interest
To Women

| Some OF the heOkuk motneTS HAVE
! something to be particularly thankful
for this year. One day last week
| there walked into the high school as
sembly room, boyish looking young
fellow with square shoulders Al.
! though he was stranger to the visi.
tors one could see by the expression
on the faces of the pupils that he
was not a stranger to them; and as
he stepped onto the platform yell
arose, Coach. coach, what's the mat
| ter with the coach?" and we knew II
was Rev. McAllister, the new Baptis,
ministed. Sanford Drake was presid
ing, for 1t was at the mass meeting
| of the high school and grammar
schools on Friday afternoon this is
| the way he introduced the Rev. Mr..
McAllister: well. we got him here
this time; he couldn't get away from
u.s." With perfect understanding that
he had been introduced as surely as
if it had been said, at is my plea
sure to introduce" etc., he got up and
spoke for ten minutes to the boys
, and girls. Never for a moment was
there suggestion but that they were
all on the same plane and while he
talked of sport and foot ball, every
word suggested clean sport out in the
open, the kind that boys love and
profit by. He was very evidently
hero in the eyes Of both the boys and
girls-for he was very careful to in
c1ude the girls-and it means every
thing to have for a hero such man
as the Rev. F. B. McAllister. His as
ISOLATION with the high school boys is
something for the mothers to be
thankful for.
Fourteen years ago the Home Econ
omics department of the Keokuk
Women's club published cook book,
the recipes for which were furnished
by Keokuk housewives and their
friends. This book is just as certain
ly found in every we'll regulated IL
brary in this city as is Shakespeare
and the classics. One day last week
woman who used to live in Keokuk.
in speaking OF this "red cook book"
said: ooh yes, I always cook with
it. When I make catsup 1 use Julia
Roots recipe and all the time it's
boiling think of her. When make
a cake I use some other friends
recipe and while I stir and bake and
ice the cake I think OF that friend. l
couldn't keep house without it." So
this book is more than merely a rule
to follow in brewing and baking.
Arov hacL IN 127S th.s uoDoop op
the First Westminster Presbyterian
church edited cook book, to which
they gave the ambitious name 1.-THE
Cook Book of the Northwest" 1t ran
through three or four editions. The
recipes are for the greater part be-
yond housewives today; no cake
recipe calls for less than eleven eggs,
or at least the whites of that many.
The chicken salad recipes call for
from two to eight chickens. These
were written before the days Of the
high cost Of living. 1t gives recipes
of foods almost unknown to this gen.
Grafton, float, brown betty, f1ummeries
and apple roll; they call for caraway
seeds, and "sfftings of nutmeg"
dishes such as your grandmother and
mine used to make. 1t calls to mind
that homely scene in Meadow Grasses
by Alice Brown. in which she de-
scribes the children coming in from
district school, clanking their empty
dinner pals and hoping that there is
apple pie, cinnamon favored, for sup
per. She says Il wonder what viands