The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-26
OF Interest to Women
BY winona Evans Reeves.
..THANK YOU.

by Wlnlfred ArnOl0.l
When every last list has been can
celed,
And each present is ribboned and
tagged.
When the very last shop-girl has faint
ed.
And the toughest expressman is fag-
ged,
You shall rest. What a silly sugges-
ton!
Lie down for an -eon or two?
Nay, nay. It's the Christmas Thank
you,
Will put you to work anew.
For those that had gifts must be
grateful,
Sit down in your straightforward chair
And labor Ger suitable gushes
TIL you babble and tear your hair.
Send thanks for the what-d'ye-call-
ems
OF which you can't figure the use.
And exc for the. thing-um- bobbys
That have MT cen friendships excuse.
And the word attractive" will help
you,
And t will often give you a lift
To write of your thoughtful present"
And your dainty Christmasy gift"
Then add. "Tis just what want
= ed."
For OF to separate star
Would be banished such truthful per-
AS spoke OF gifts as they are!
Major Meigs at the Irwin party the
other night looked about him at the
brilliant company, the handsomely
gowned women and the fine looking
men who appear to belong to Keokuk
society and said. i've often wondered
who keeps this list, somebody must
keep track Of who ought to be invited
to these parties"
While Major Meigs is high up in the
service, and is entitled to
have great string of letters follow
ing his name, and consequently must
have a pretty definite and broad
knowledge OF some things. the invita-
ton list question was one beyond him.
Men don't know that women keep
books on the social obligation with
as much accuracy as bank clerk
keeps his balance sheet.
Well, when he asked that question
one of the women couldn't resist tell
ing him this good Joke on the Meig's
family. A few years ago, the Meigs
girls spent good deal OF time travel
ling to the four-quarters Of the globe,
at one time no two of them were In
the same country, one was in Egypt,
another in Japan, one In France. one
In England. and naturally they didn't
keep very close tab on Keokuk So
ciety Finally Miss. Alice Meigs came
home to be married to the diplomat,
Mr.. Arthur Orr They were to have
a church wedding and the girls were
troubled about the invitation list.
Miss Meigs went over to Mrs. A. T..
tombstone who is remembered as be-
ing always the embodiment OF kind
ness and helpfulness. and said, Il
don't know who / ought to ask to the
church, Mrs. tombstone said. II think
my reception list might help YOU and
so Miss Meigs took the list and found
1t to be Just what she needed. In due
time the invitations were sent-out and
not tombstone was invited. They
wondered at it Of course, when all at
once it dawned upon them that they
weren't on their own reception list.
They enjoyed the joke and all Of them
were at the wedding.
! Josephine Babcock in recent issue
of the Washington Democrat tells this
story Of Mrs. Max Mayer Of Sioux
City. Mrs. Mayer Is vice president Of
the Iowa Federation OF Women's
Clubs and is the strongest suffrage al
vocate on the executive board. She
was addressing an audience once
where the pro and con Of the question
was being debated. She stated her
position with facts short and to the
! roint whereupon the man who repre-
scented the anti-suffrageists spoke for
almost an hour laboriously picking her
speech to pieces. Finally in a fine
burst of oratory he asked, Where are
the monuments to women. will you
! find them at the polls or in the home
}"He paused dramatically with his
hand stuck in the front OF his Goa.
and gazed at his audience. Quick as
flash Mrs. Mayer answered him
1--WE don't want any monuments, Mr.
Speaker, we arn't dead yet"
! That man was convinced that GER
tainly there was one woman anyway
who was alive.
Mr.. Elgar r. Harlan tells this joke
at his own expense. AS you know he
is curator of the state historical de
partment and gives all of his time t.
the study and preservation of Iowa his
tory. He said some one accused him
OF claiming personal knowledge OF
Iowa history hundred years back
Colonel Temple. in introducing him
once to an audience, said that Nj.
Harlan had been accused OF having
a memory covering hundred years
and that It was true, that he is forty
years old and was born and reared in
Van Buren, county, which is sixty
years behind the time, and IL thai
didn't give Harlan a hundred years
he didn't know arithmetic.
To women who were girls in the