The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-07
Delegation Of Over 200 Heard Charles
Reign scoviIIe and Presented
Roses to Mrs.
ScoviIle.
CAN'T REFORM HUSBAND
EVANGELIST Tells Girls Not to Marry
Man Expecting to Change
His Mode OF
Life.

Forty persons hit the sawdust trail
at Charles Reign Scoville's worship
shed last night. The total number OF
trail hitters is crowding the 3,4OO
mark today. The crowd last night was
large.
odd Glory Face" Ed Card. was
popular again, especially in the role
Of soloist, singing HE Surely Means
Me-" Later he and Mrs. Scoville
sang a duet entitled Jesus Leads"
The feature of the service was the
delegation of nearly 200 business girls
who marched singing into the tab
ernacle about 7:45 O'Clock, headed by
Miss Stella Robinson, of the evange-
istic company and Miss Tirza Ddns-
dale, secretary of the Keokuk Y. w.
C. A. Both women have assisted Mrs.
Scoville in the bushes girls work
here.
The girls sang HE Surely Means
Me-" as they filed into their reserva-
ton which was in the very center OF
the tabernacle. Row after row was
filled with the happy faced young
women until the delegation extended
almost to the extreme rear of the huge
structure.
There were girls Of all kinds and
DESCRIPTIONS.
and brunettes; girls tall and girls
short: serious-faced girls and girls
who might have been called "coquet-
ish," to say the least; girls who
laughed and talked and sang as
though grim care had not yet made
much of an inroad into their youth
full happiness; girls who showed that
their lives were not all sunshine. For
the shadows were therein their
faces Necessity, real and terrible,
was staring them in the face. But
they were fighting him back-Deat1nS
him back with the dauntless, ever
conuuering optimism of the American
business woman And they were dis
seminating that spirit of optimism
last night through the medium, he
Surely Means Mel"
Presents Roses to Mrs. Scoviiie.
The scene was inspiring and the
vast audience applauded vociferousiy
as the girls entered the building. AS
Miss Dinsdale passed the piano at
which Mrs. Scoville was seated, she
stepped up and handed the eVange-
lists wife huge bouquet OF Amerl-
can Beauty roses. The applause gre"
even more vehement. Mrs. Scovllle
bowed and smiled
AS the girls were seated, Scov1lle
Stepped in front Of the platform. I
want to thank you girls he said, TOT
the roses you gave Mrs. ScoV1lie ana
which you intended for me. Inc
business girls laughed, taking the
ouib in good part. Ed Card added to
the merriment a few minutes later
when. as he stepped to the platform
to begin a song, he said quietly:
young women, l thank you for this
beautifuI bouquet you sent me- The
girls cheered "Old Glory Face
heartily.
stand up, business girls called
the reyiyalist. MY he exclaimed.
Here's a bunch of American Beau
ties back here that you sent up, put
there's a bunch out there in those
seats, too"
The young women gave their motto
and resumed their seats. The motto
was: ITO them that overcometh, God
giveth a crown"
Cheer Telephone Girls
a eroup of telephone girls who had
desired to go to the tabernacle with
the delegation, but who could not re-
main until the end of the service, oW-
ing to their hours for work, were ap
nIauded as they left the building. God
HESS EN-" said Scoville. They can't
stay. but they're all right. They did
all they could.
The crowd requested that Mr.. Card