The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-21
washinaton's FOREIGN policy.

needs OF this country, were his words
uttered long ago. He said observe
good faith and justice toward all ma
tons; cultivate peace and harmony
with all. Religion and morality enjoin
this conduct, and can it be that good
policy does not equally enjoin It? The
great rule OF conduct for us in regard
to foreign nations Is, in extending our
commercial relations to have with
them as little political relation as pos
sible. Europe has set Of primary
interests, which to us have no rela-
ton. Hence she must be engaged in
frequent controversies, the causes OF
which are foreign to our concerns.
Hence it would be unwise in US to i'm
'plicate ourselves in the vicissitudes OF
her policies. Our detached and dis
tant situation enables us to take an
attitude of neutrality In conclus-
ion Miss Pittman said "and SO, here's
to the hope that we, the citizens of the
United States, may dutifully follow
the advice Of the father of our coun-
try, to keep clear OF foreign en-
and observe strict neu-
trality in the present European crisis"
To Martha Washington.
Mrs. Martha Hamill Horne toasted
Martha Washington and said in part:
WAS it the soft notes played on
the spinnet in the deepening twilight
of a Virginia sky or the dainty hand
work by her needle, or the exception
ally fine dancing of the stately min
ute by the pretty petite widow Gusts
that won the hand and heart of Wash
ington? History tells us that they
were mutually we'll pleased with each
other at their first interview. Pos
sibly the fact that the widow had
houses and lands added somewhat to
her attractiveness, as in q letter to q
friend, Washington mentions the fact
that she is well endowed. In our
imagination we can see her as bride
in her gown OF white satin with
quilted petticoat over which was
draped an overskirt of white corded
silk. Pearl ornaments were in her
hair and aroma her neck and her
high heeled satin slippers were fasten-
ed at the instep with buckles studded
with diamonds. My toast is to Martha
the lover of her home,
the sympathizer of her husband in
his love of country pursuits, entering
with its homely duties and simple
She was indeed her hus-
bands companion and helper in Of
fetal life, or as the wife of a soldier.
During the long winter at Morristown
she knitted for the soldiers and the
severe winter at Valley Forge min
istered to the i'll and dying. AS de-
voted and sympathetic wife, tender
mother, an earnest and devOut chris
tian, loyal friend, she was worthy to
be the wife Of the purest OF our pat
riots Such a woman was Martha
20 whom I pledge with
you my toast"
Colonial Woman 10 New Woman.
Mrs. Edith O'Harra Walker had for
a subject THE Colonial Woman and
Woman of Today who said:
1.-THE colonial woman versus the
new woman; the stately dame of 1776
compared with the self sufficient wom-
an of 1915 seem very different. But
are they SO unlike after all? Hasn't
woman throughout the ages been es-
sentially the same: True, the burden
of domesticity laid upon the shoulders
of the colonial women by lack of adj
ity to her. To the woman of today.
for whom advantages have lessened
this burden, it is given to respond to
the call for greater freedom and to
better living conditions. 1t is this
ability to see things to do that marks
the new women. Since the world be-
gan, woman has instinctively realized
that the part she had to play in the
Of the race has given
her a right to her insfstent cry for
national and International peace. The
woman of '76 sacrificed her all, dry
eyed, even smilingly endured her
agony, crushed into the acceptance OF
her lot. But from that acceptance Of
the useless destruction Of life, has ris-
en- the determination to assume some
Of the responsibility of nations
fate. Into her capable hands her
duties have fallen quite naturally and
II Is the new woman with her charm
and poise, who looks into the agonized
faces of those former mothers and
echoes the cry of the old Ozark phil
osopher who said 1T looks like there
oughtn't to be no bad place for wom-
on. they get theirn here In word,
the new woman is the expression of
the colonial woman's hidden springs,
gushing forth into unlimited wells of
good through better and clearer un-|
Mrs. ]. F. Elder led symposium on
war. part in which was taken by
Mrs. ]. D. Rubidge. Mrs. ]. o. Boyd.
Miss Elizabeth Dunlap and Mrs.
Reeves.
Al !.
Toast to our Country"
In closing the program, Mrs. New
comb said: by his patriotism. Wash