The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-02
OF Interest to Women
BY wInona Evans Reeves.

When women are worrying about
their housekeeping they might take
some courage In the thought that the
average man is quite unconscious OF
the details OF housekeeping. Aunt
Jane in THE Land of Long Ago." as
you remember, quotes Sam Amos just
as Sairy Camp quotes Mrs. Harris
and says this about housekeeping:
Sam Amos used to say that women
kept house for two reasons: one to
please themselves and the other to
displease the men Says he give me
three meals day and comfortable
place to sleep in and let me be able
to lay my hands on my clothes and
that's Housekeeping enough for me-
| reckon most mems pretty much like
Sam
While the European war has made
Americans "see America first" for the
past year or two, the destruction OF
historic places and treasures Of art is
a very tragic thing. For years to come
the fact of this awful war will thrust
itself upon European travellers at the
expense of the historic past. Ebert
liitUDo1u oHCo SSCIlDeu Ju0 COlSClOue-
ness which traveller of discernment
had In visiting Europe, he said: "Did
YOU meet Michael Angelo in Rome
Why it's the most natural questi IN
the world. At Stratford r expected to
meet Shakespeare; at Wiener I was
sure I would meet Goethe; Rheubens
just eiuded me at Antwerp; at Amster-
dam I caught glimpse of Rem
h IN In hn ~lo fr<1 81
Marks in Florence / saw Savanarola
London I beheld the lowering smoke
beyond the walls Ridgley and Latimer
outside of Jerusalem a sign greets the
disappointed traveller He is risen,
He Is not here"
At the close of the last meeting OF
the Civic league, at which Judge Ham
/ ilton, in his splendid address, quoted
a poem Of some eight or ten stanzas
Of blank verse without the slightest
lapse Of memory, one Of the women
said to him, you learned to speak
pieces when you were boy, didn't
your" And Judge Hamilton said,
Yes, indeed, I was raised on Nc.
M cGuffeys Fifth Reader" It's safe
guess that he can repeat ooh, why
should the spirit of mortal be proud
Marco Bozarris,' "The Burial Of Sir
John Moore and other like poems
compared with which much OF our
present day poetry Is pretty poor
stuff.
| Mo- ", hoc
anything given in Keokuk more de-
Ilishtful than Havrah Hubbard's in
troductory speech to Tannhouser. He
said SO much to give comfort to the
average person. that is to the person
who has not technical knowledge of
music and OF some of the other arts
He made it very clear that there isn't
very much in the high brow pose re-
garding art. He said among other
things: "Art is only the work OF
ordinary men and women who have
had some unusual experience and who
| have tried to preserve that expert
ence, to make it permanent. If this
moment Of ecstacy, or sorrow, or Joy
come to musician he expressed it
in music, II an artist he painted, a
sculptor would seek to express it in
the plastic art and writer would
express it in words. To enjoy music
or any form OF art, you need not
know all about it: I don't have to
know how to make a mince pie to en-
| Joy a piece of It. To enjoy any form
Of art it only takes a responsive
heart, receptive soul"
Hundreds Of Iowa people have gone
| through The Garden of the Gods, and
of the natural wonders of Colorado
without knowing that this tract of land
was given to the state Of Colorado by
an Iowa man. The late Charles f.
! Perkins Of Burlington, who was pres
lident Of the c. B. & @. railroad, made
the gift to Colorado.
i That the argument that men rep
resent women at the polls is untenable
is shown by the following six ques'
lions:
| II woman Is responsible for an
accident, If she defaults On her con-
tracts, IL she ISLANDERS her neighbors,
is any man arrested, sued, bound
over to keep the peace?
/ If woman steals from her employ
er, does her father, husband, brother
or son serve out her term in prison?
n woman kills somebody, what
man represents her in the prisoners
dock during her trial? What man
represents her in the electric chair II
she is convicted?
II widow or an unmarried woman
fails to pay her taxes, is the property
tof male relative or of the man next
door sold to satisfy the debt to the
state?
If a woman FORCES check. does he1
father, her husband, her employer, &c
to Jail for felony?
Why Is it that the only place In the
world where man wants to represent