The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-09

full institutions, so will they take hold
of this work one of these days and
found such collections and build them
up.
There are not only art galleries to
establish, but parks and squares to
decorate-western life to be made
beautiful! Surely there is enough
! for the clubs to do"
Few women in this generation have
either knowledge or realization OF the
struggle women had century ago to
get any sort of an education. Tie
first high school for girls was opened
in Boston in 1926 and soon closed be-
cause SO many applied for application
that they could not be accommodated.
Finally high school education for girls
was established, and the next step
was the female seminary" the cur
4 riculum of which included map draw
ing, polite literature, music and such
studies. The girls insisted on other
studies such as their brothers had,
and at last colleges were opened to
them. Women are still barred from
Harvard Yale and Princeton, al
| though Harvard has a summer school
which admits women. Some English
colleges refuse to give degrees to
women, although they do the same
work, being accredited "honors" in
stead Of degrees. This admission to
school and college privileges was the
first step in "feminism." The next
was the opening of the professions to
women and the present effort is eor
| political Acknowledgement.
Grace Wilbur Trout of Chicago will
be the attraction next Sunday after
noon, August 16, at the Hamilton
chsutauqua. She is president of the
Illinois Equal Suffrage association
and an author and lecturer and one
of the well known women OF this
country She was born in Maquo-
keta, Iowa and was educated in the
Iowa schools. A few years after her
marriage, they moved to Chicago. A
! few years ago she made an exhaus-
tive study Of Mormonism and wrote a
| book, "a Mormon Wife, Her two
I'best known lectures are t'The Eng
! lish Novel as a Social Protest" and
Suffrage From an American Wom-
ans Standpoint" the latter will be
her subject next Sunday afternoon.
Her home is in Oak Park. She is
member of the Chicago Chapter
Daughters Of the American Revolu.
ton, of the Chicago Woman's club,
and is prominent and popular In
Chicago.
The women of America will have
cause for grief in the passing of the
wife of the president. One OF the
causes given for the rapid progress
of her disease was that she had over
taxed her strength in her wish to do
her full duty as "the first lady of the
land" 1t can be said to her credit,
and to her daughters that they never
for one moment lost their heads in
the changes which came to them by
President Wilson of Princeton becom-
ing the United States president.
" uSOH udu q 81 CdS COZ
in all sorts of public welfare work, in
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation, in public health work and
clubs. The last work of this nature
which she did was to abolish the slum
districts of Washington which have
been disgrace for fifty years. She
was literary women and an artist
of ability. She was a woman who in
every way graced her position, and
who reflected credit upon this coun-
try, and was in every way the peer OF
any woman who has held the position.
Fort Madison Democrat: Mrs. u.
l.. johnson has gone to Keokuk for
visit with her parents. Mrs.
John Schaile and daughter have gone
to Keokuk for q short visit with
friends.