The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-11
OF Interest to Women
BY wlnona Evans Reeves.

Il ~ Winona Evans Reeve9.
Most of the boys and girls who
have gone from Keokuk to the various
colleges and universities have made
fraternities and sororities. There is
one mems fraternity, Phi Delta Theta,
which has one woman member. 1t
came about in this way In one of the
colleges of the south, I've forgotten
just which it was, a girl visited her
brother, who belonged to Phi Delta
Theta, during commencement. One
afternoon she went into her brothers
room to take nap. The bed was in
an alcoye and she slept soundly,
weary with the festivities of COM
mencement. She was awakened by
hearing voices beyond the curtain of
the alcove and listened to hear who it
was. She came to the realization that
the Phi boys were initiating a new
member. She was panic-stricken for
a few moments and hardly knew what
to do. Finally she called her brother,
which stopped the ceremony mid
way. She had heard too much to be
turned loose without some restraint,
SO the boys, after some discussion,
decided to give her the oath of the
fraternity and of secrecy so she be-
came the one woman member of q fra
ternity for men.
Here's conundrum and it's good
one. Which is the heavier Taft or
Wilson? The answer is the full name
of one OF the presidents Of the United
States.
There is book, which has been one
OF the seasons best sellers, a book
which every woman who has daugh-
ter ought to read-The Bent Twig,
by Dorothy Garfield. 1t Is a good
book for girls themselves to read. 1t
is book which holds the readers in
terest and teaches a wholesome les.
son. There are several copies of it in
the public library.
In the years that are gone, before
the great war put bar on European
travel, among the interesting places
visited by tourists were the cathe-
drals. Visitors studied them archi-
tecturally or historically. or looked
upon them as sort of museum or
visited them idly as all in the days
work of sight seeing. Recently, par
ticularly in England, the people are
beginning to think of their cathedrals
as houses Of God. and not as examples
Of Gothic architecture. So strong is
the sentiment on the subject that the
London Times expresses a belief that
the cathedrals will come again to be
what they were built for-places of
worship, and that after the war.
when European travel is resumed,
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will have to go to them in the spirit
Of worship. or at most ostensibly in
that spirit.
Most women have had the expert.
| ence Of having misfortune come to a
new dress AID ever after that gar.
ment seemed to be- ''hoodooed,"-ev.
cry time 1t was worn 1t was soiled In
a new place. This happened to d
Keokuk woman. She bought a hand.
some piece OF blue faille silk, in thA
days when dresses were made in one
piece. The dressmaker cut out the
dress and when she came to haste the
pieces together, she found that about
the middle Of the length Of one side
there was a defective place in the silk,
| the sort of defect that couldn't be
PdoSCU oVCI. 1Ao WOudA tOOh lAo
piece back to the merchant. who said
I'D be awfully glad to give you an.
other length. but don't have 1t. l
sold the last Of that bolt yesterday"
The woman sat down in despair
there was that expensive silk cut out
and no account unless they could
match it by sending to the whole.
sale house. A clerk who heard the
conversation, said she thought they
had remnant nearly like it. She got
the piece. 1t was pretty nearly a
match, but not exactly. and when
they measured 1t, 1T was barely long
enough, but the woman took 1t CRATE
fully She took It home to the seam
stress and they tried 1t right side out
and wrong side out to see in what
! light 1t would match the best and In
the worry the seamstress cut the
cores for the wrong side of the dress.
They spent the best part Of day
rectffying that mistake and late in the
afternoon a neighbor came in to SYM
pathize and was shown the dress
sewed together and they all decided
| that it looked first rate. Just then