The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-27

! / have a little market basket to de
| / liver the goods in. The store Is calico
the Terrence Grocery. The children
have made the money Of different
denominations and each has made his
own purse Of brown paper. IL Il
needless to say that arithmetic is the
most popular branch of study in tha'
room. No child can trade at the store
until he can add. To be the store
keeper. he has to be exceptionally
good in his arithmetic, and must be
able to write neatly and legibly and
be able to keep accounts. The store
is not open every day, but is opened
:, if the children are good and study
! diligently. Can't you see how many
Z, purposes that store serves2 1t helps
! in discipline, it is an incentive to
study, it makes study interesting
/ which otherwise is more or less abb
! stract, it brings into use their writing,
| drawing, clay modelling and paper
| folding. They are learning about
| weights and measures, the pure food
law and the value and buying quality
of money. They are learning all these
things unconsciously and in very
happy way. Miss knights received
her training in the Chicago Univers-
| ity kindergarten school and she is
putting her training into excellent
| use.
The Woman's Journal. published in
Boston, the official organ of the Ma
tional Equal Suffrage association, in
it's issue of December 8, published an
account of the experiences of the
women who presented themselves for
registration preceding the presiden-
tial election. It. is held that women
who have voted in one state can not
under the provisions of the consti-
tuition of the United States be dis.
franchised by moving into non-suf-
nage state. The following is one
of the incidents related: An edu-
Gated woman of rather unusual bust
ness ability VINO had voted in another
state asked for registration in an
Iowa town. She was able to qualify
under the requirements OF the federal
law and the state law. she was Meth
er felon nor an idiot, but she was
woman and was refused on that
ground While she and the witness
who accompanied her were present
ing her claim to the registration
board, colored man came in to
register and the board asked the
women to be seated until they should
register this man. The women sat
how it was done.
The man was sworn after the usual
mumbled fashion. They asked his
name; he knew that and gave it. and
| it was recorded. They asked his
street and number; he didn't know
that but explained where he lived
and they got out the city directory
and hunted it up and wrote down the
street and number. They asked him
how long he had been a citizen of the
state and he answered forty-three
years. To the questions as to the
length OF his residence in the county
and city and precinct he answered.
istration judges said, Didn't you ever
vote any place else?" and he said.
"Oh, yes, up to three years ago ! was
votin' in Hannibal" So they cut
forty years off Of four Of his answers
and asked him to sign his name. He
said, II can't write, you'll have to
sign for me-" So a man who couldn't
even answer the questions put to him,
except that he knew his own name,
passed out of the building qualified
voter. That incident didn't happen
a thousand miles from Keokuk either.
When Mischa Elman met with an
automobile accident recently in
which he was injured, the dispatches
in the newspapers were more than
a news item to many Keokuk people
because during his short stay here he
made more than acquaintances, he
made friends. Going over to Chicago
recently Miss Fry and Miss Younker
met him on the train. He spoke with
enthusiasm of his Keokuk audience.
Miss Fry was too wise to lose the op-
portunity to see inside this artists
mind and so she asked him some
questions. Did he play to please him
self or to please his audience? to
which he replied. "Oh, play to please
myself and to please musicians and
then l know my audience will be
pleased" He said further that the
personality OF an audience counted so
much, the artist can feel its pulse
and temperament as if it were one
person. and then he plays to that
one person. He said, too, that a
sincere player never puts on man
nerisms or affectation of any sort,
because it detracts from the music
itself and to the artist it is the music
which he wishes the audience to feel
and not to see the musician. AS
Hamlet said, The play is the thing"
Elman says, Interpretation is the
thing" To be an artist, musician
must have constructive ability
to the extent that he puts him
iself in touch with the mind of the
composer; he really re-creates the
composition from his own view point
Comparing American audiences with
European audiences before which he
has played. ne said, American audi
ences are fine. They appreciate good
music. but they are SO m Oldest they
do not appreciate themselves. They
fear to express themselves lest they
! be mistaken. they are fine and they
know good music but they don't know
! that they know it, To many who
heard this great violinist, there was
one Earring note and that was that
he did not once allow his accompan.