The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-31

You find them swarming in house
and street.
Whence came they? What is the
cause?
oh! Against using stable refuse, we
have no laws.
Twelve hundred strong in one pound
Yet how lavishly on the ground,
Your neighbor's lawn, your neighbor 8
alley.
The street. the lane-it's all the
same.
Throw to the winds-scatter 1t Wlde'
Over the towns and countryside.
What care we for the innocent babeg
The people at large, our nearest ana
dearest?
'Tis folly the sheerest.
Disease brings havoc far greater
than war.
Send your messengers so fleet
Make everything clean and sweet.
Use the Observation-Disclosures OF lime.
Don't you realize 1t is high time?
Portland, North Yakima and Tacoma,
OF Araby of yore. But one thing more
They set the pace for all the race.
A woman it was who drew up the
laws,
The first woman Inspector Mrs.
Evans,
Finding everything at skies and sew
ens-blazed the trail.
Quickly her sister cities followed,
Till the whole west, doIg its best
Vanquished disease in q sreat meas
ure,
Filled the days with simple pleasure.
It remained for Grand Forks. North
Dakota,
To be the "spotless Town with each
iota
Under the guardianship OF Mrs.
Sprague.
Pray don't look so very vague.
Travelling men hail this spot
Vie with each other in a plot
To make this town on Saturday night
For fear on Sunday elsewhere,
They'd be in a plight.
Now when will our own Keokuk,
Have the very, very good luck
To stand the Utopia of the states?
So that husbands may tell their mates
What pleasure it is to live in ale
town on the lake,
Where one fly would make you
quake.
No stagnant pool near park or scnoo.
No four patches of eggs, one hun
dred twenty each
To be found within reach.
Where the visiting nurse who all
things can trace,
Will find no flies on the baby's face.
Where the woman Inspector. with
eyes so keen,
Will find nothing under the sun to
clean.
Where the children will frolic
through streets Of renown,
And strangers marvel at the town.
When will this be?
Like rPeg o. NY Heart"
My very last word is
Cont be clart. 4
How Paint Improves.
Mrs W. G. Blood gave a very clever
talk on "The Possibilities Of Paint"
recounting the experiences Of the
residents on Fulton Terrace in their
effort to improve with paint, the
Fulton Terrace fence.
Miss Caroline Baldwin had for a
subject, 1.-THE Possibilities in the
Parks dealing particularly with the
results hoped fer in the Rand park
extension.
Mrs. Reeves closed the program
on 1.-THE Possibilities OF the Civic
League Hitting the Knocker.
Joining Peace Party.
Mrs. D. A. Collier then presented
the proposition Of the Keokuk Civic
league joining the peace party. This
the league voted to do. The peace
party stands for the abolition of.war.
"As women we are especially the
Of the life of the ages. We
will not longer consent to its reck-
less destruction. As women, we are
particularly charged with the future
of childhood and the care of the
helpless and unfortunate. We will
not longer accept without protest.
that added burden Of the manned
and invalid men and poverty strick-
en- orphans which the war places u.s."
This Is one of the purposes of the
peace party, according to letters sent
out by Chairman Jane Adams.
The motion that the Civic league
support the party was seconded by
several and unanimously passed.
The ladies' then arose and drank a
toast to the future possibilities Of
Keokuk.
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