The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
OF Interest to Women
BY WInona Evans Reeves.

WIl.ten Dy BOD Burdette. BY request
OF the club we are reprinting It:
Ihere are two days of the week
upon which and about which l never
worry, Two care-free days kept ga.
credly free from fear and apprehen-
sion.
One Of these Is Yesterday. Yes
terday, with all its cares and frets,
with all Its pains and aches, all it's
faults, its mistakes and blunders, has
passed beyond the reach of my recall.
cannot undo any act what wrought.
cannot unsay word tina. said on
Yesterday. All that it holds of life.
OF regret and sorrow is in the hand
OF the mighty love that can make the
wrong things right; that can turn
weeping into laughter; that can give
beauty for ashes, the garment Of
praise for the spirit of heaviness,
JOY or the morning for the woe OF
night
Save for. the beautiful memories
that linger sweet and tender like the
perfume of roses, in the heart of the
day that is gone, have nothing to do
with Yesterday
And the other day I do not worry
about is Tomorrow. Tomorrow. with
al 49, poootpic uNcEolIleS, IT'S UuI-
denS, It's perils, its large promises AMI
poor performances, its failures and
mistakes, is as far beyond the reach
of my mastery as it's dead sister
Yesterday. Its sun will rise in rcseate
splendor, or beyond a mask of weep
ing clouds. But 1t will rise. Until
then the same love and patience that
held Yesterday, and holds Tomorrow.
shines with tender promise into the
heart of Today. have no possession
in that modern day Of grace All else
is in the infinite keeping Of that Inf
mite Love that holds for me the treas
ure Of Yesterday, the love that is
higher than stars, wider than the sky,
deeper than the seas.
There is life for myself, then, but
one day of the week-Today. Any
man can fight the battles of Today
Any woman can carry the burdens of
just one day.
No one has much patience with q
bridge player, who, having lost the
game. after it was over told what he
could have done II he'd held better
cards, and how If the lead had been a
little different they might have won,
and 80 we aren't going to dissect the
recent vote on the constitutional am
endment, only to say that no woman
who took part in that campaign feels
that it was time lost. The exper.
fence and observation and things
learned were worth it all That the
women had saving sense of humor
kept them from taking some things
and some people too seriously.
IN - fD fv,cA
time the news that q constitutional
amendment was to come up at the
June primary, was carried by the
women who distributed literature on
votes for women. it is worthy of note
that only one woman interviewed,
seemed not to know what it was all
about. The plan Of procedure in can
vassing the country districts over the
state was the same. The women who
did the campaigning went out in
groups of four or five and on going
to village or settlement, went to the
store and asked the names of the lead
ing women in the neiShborhood who
were then interviewed. One of the
campaigners told this experience:
One day We stopped at a settlement
and on inquiry were directed to
brick house and told that the leading
family lived there but as an after
thought the store keeper said they
are the leading citizens but Mrs. Nc
Carly across the street here talks
heap Motioning the others to go
to the more pretentious house, we
went across to see Mrs. McCarty who
talks heap The house was a non
descript, implanted one, Of three
rooms and as we came to the open
door we saw she was cleaning house
in that hopeless way which upsets
every thing at one time. She apoli-
gized for the house, and we talked Of
the weather and the condition of the
roads and how far we had come that
day. She was frankly curious as to
our errand and finally we said
wouldn't you like to vote?' In that
one sentence she understood our mis-
sion and all it implied and said, Vote?
I reckon T would. I've always wanted
to vote" We asked her if there were
a club or society or a w. @. T. U.
or some sort of an organization
which the women could work
for suffrage Such hopeless look
came into her face and she said No,
we haven't a club Of any kind I've
worked for years for a Ladies Aid
but no one wants to accept me- Then
her face lighted up and she said blu.
| take the Pictorial Review 1t was
pathetic in the extreme, woman
longing flor some association with
other women for some means of self
and getting this associa.
ton with other women only theore,-
ically-through a fashion magazine.
The franchise would have meant a
great deal to that woman. She al
ready had her presidential candidate
chosen, but am afraid in the light of
the nomination in Chicago day or
two ago, she couldn't have voted for
him even if the amendment had car
ried''
Here is recipe which is a pophla-
one Just now in Keokuk and 1t makes
a. delicious sort of marmalade. TO
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