The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-27
OF Interest to Women
By wInona Evans Reeves.

BY WInona Evans Reeves.
A short time ago Dr. p. B. New
comb had a verse printed in the
church calendar, the import of which
was that church goers should be
more mindful about speaking to eacf
other after. church, and particularly
to strangers. The verse brought te
Il mind the experience that keokuE
woman and her little girl had in the
First Presbyterian church OF Bur
lington year or more ago. She was
starting on a western journey one
Sunday and had to wait over in Bur
lington between trains, and being a
Presbyterian, she went to the chunch
OF that denomination. The usher
who met her at the door, said: Are
YOU a stranger in this church," and
she explained whence she had come
and why and was shown to very
comfortably located pew. In few
moments a man and a woman came
into the same pew and as the service
had not begun, the woman said. Are
You a stranger here And again the
Keokuk woman told whence she had
come At the close of the service.
going down the aisle a number OF
people stopped to shake hands and
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in the church. OF course she knew
Mr.. Storer whom most Keokuk peo-
pie know, and who is an institution
in the First Presbyterian church Of
Burlington; he introduced her to the
minister who stood at the door. Pass
ing out through the vestibule, several
other people shook hands and final
ly they made their way to g cafe for
dinner The head waiter took them
to a table where two women were
already seated. AS soon as the order
for dinner was given, the older of the
two women said, Il saw you in our
church this morning, are you strang-
er in the city,"
When the Keokuk woman went to
- the cashiers desk to pay her check. a
rather elderly man came Up and said,
II was SO pleased to see you in our
church this morning. We hope you
will come again" The train they were
to take did not leave until the middle
of the afternoon, so they decided to
take car to Grape park. Not know
& ing what car of those passing GER
tain corner to board, they asked a
man who stood there waiting also for
car. He answered the question
and then said: I've were pleased to
see you in our church this morning"
When they arrived at the park, a
man stood near the gate, who had
with him two or three little children.
As the Keokuk woman and her little
girl passed them, he said: Maybe
your little girl would like to see the
swans; they are over to your right.
saw you in church this morning:
are You a stranger in the city?"
This incident actually happened
Just in this way. There surely is one
church mindful of strangers who
worship with them.
A few years ago three Keokuk girls
were on board steamer crossing the
Atlantic, and sat at the same table
with Andrew Carnegie. When they
were introduced to him, they said
that they were from Keokuk, Iowa.
where his bridge across the Missis-
sippi is located. He said in a mysti.
fled sort Of way: why, do I own a
posed that he would not need his
memory refreshed on the subject this
year, since SO great an amount has
been spent on remodeling the bridge.
Miss Dorothy Knights, who teaches
the second grade in the Terrence
school, and who has made several ex.
periments in socialized teaching, has
a store in her room and by this
method teaches the children arith
metic The whole arrangement is
Just as clever as 1t can be. The
store is built of heavy paste board
boxes. of the size that several dozen
boxes of pancake flour. or breakfas:
food is packed in. The boxes are so
placed that the advertisement on the
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the little store. There is counter
on which is placed toy telephone
toy scales, and a coffee grinder, a
cash register, a roll OF wrapping pa
per, and a pile of paper bags. The
children made the roll of wrapper
and made the paper bags. At the
back Of the store are shelves, on
which canned goods are placed. The
children made the cans of pasteboard
and made the labels and pasted
them on. The labels are colored and
look like the ones on tin cans in the
real grocery stores. From clay they
made the vegetables and fruit and
co1ored them. They have for sale
bananas, pears, cranberries, apples,
lemons, oranges, cucumbers, string
beans, carrots. potatoes, etc. All
these are carefully modelled and col
pred correctly. Beside these things,
which they have made them selves
they have small samples OF various
breakfast foods, etc. There was one
package covered by glass dish and
we said to Mrs. Sheldon, the prfn-
cipal of the building, What is this
glass dish for?' She said, ooh. they
are observing the pure food law and
keep certain commodities covered"
A short distance from the store
sits a kindergarten table with a tele-
phone on it and a chair beside it.
On inquiry we found that here the
housekeeper lives who orders the
groceries over the telephone. They
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