The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-22

efficiency. Cooking lessons are a
part of her program. She goes where
ever there is request for her. The
office is part Of the extension work
of the Iowa State college.
Many Keokuk people will have a
very kindly remembrance of Maud
Ray Curtis, who lived here years ago
and went to our schools. After the
tragic death of her husband and little
girl and her own long illness, she
took up catering in Chicago, in pro-
fessional wy, with a corps OF walt
ers and helpers of various kinds. She
followed this successfully for several
years. Recently she has written two
or three plays which have been put
on in the Chicago moving picture
houses and which have been well re-
ceived.
A short time ago municipal office
was created in the department OF
public charities known as Cynical
psychologist. 1t is very high
sounding "entitlement" as Mirandy in
Dorothy Dix stories says. But the
story of how it came to be created is
most interesting. Ten years ago
there were graduated from the Uni
versity of Nebraska, two young peo-
pie, Leta Stetter and Harry l.. Hol-
lingsworth. Both were unusual stu
dents, but II there was any difference
in their scholarship, the odds were in
favor of the girl. They became en-
gagged in their senior year, but were
too poor to be married and so both
taught school. After two or three
years Mr. Hollingsworth was Offered
a professorship in the psychology de-
partment of Columbia university in
New York. The salary was small, but
there was promise of promotion and
he accepted it. At the beginning OF
the school year he went to New York
and after few months Miss Stetuer
went east and they were married
They began housekeeping in small
flat on Columbia Heights. The flat
was too small to hold maid If they
had been able to afford one and so
Mrs. Hollingsworth did the house
work As she swept and busted and
cooked and took the groceries off
the dumb waiter and put the garbage
on, she thought good deal. She
knew that she had the same type of
mind as her husband and that she
had the same education; marriage
had not changed his status except to
improve it and It had made Of her a
domestic, doing manual labor, worth
in the market of industry about TWEEN
ty-flve dollars month. She knew
that her position was irrational. Mar
riage never reduced a man to a bod
carrier or a day laborer.
Opportunity at this juncture. a
woman psychologist in the employ OF
the city went on her annual vaca-
ton and Mrs. Hol1ingsworth applied
for and was elected substitute. Her
duties were to apply certain tests to
determine degrees Of retardatfon in
feeble-mindd charity patients. The
work was interesting to one who en-
joyed psychology as she did and in it
she saw a means of escape from do
nestle labor With the money earned
that one summer she paid her fees
to a postgraduate course in Columbia
in the department of psychology. In
reading for her master degree and
later for her doctors degree, the idea
came to her to specialize on women's
psychology. She followed up every
possible reference to women's mental
status, women's capacities and limi-
tations and the result of her study
is an authoritative book on the abili-
ties of women. In this research work
she examined and classified hundreds
of abnormal children in the post
graduate hospital in New York City,
Her reports prompted the establish
ment by the city of New York, this
office which she now holds, the duties
of which are to examine and classify
individuals who are applicants for In
stitutional care at public expense. Her
work brings perhaps eight times the
money return that her work as a do
nestle was worth. with shorter hours
/ and mental rather than manual labor
, and an opportunity for growth in
stead Of mental stagnation.
A movement for the erection Of q