The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-15
OF Interest to Women
BY wInona Evans Reeves.

Miss Eleanor Brown in her recent
parlor lecture on THE Years Best
Sellers" said that sometimes one en-
joyed an author more by knowing him
through his books. and that some
times in meeting him personally one
had sense of disappointment be-
cause he seemed not to measure up
to the characters he had created in
! his books. We were reminded OF an
experience which Keokuk girl had
few years ago, with Edna Ferber.
which exactly illustrates the point
made by Miss Brown. This Keokuk
girl was spending some time in Chi
cago and had an apartment in the
same building with Edna Ferber. On
several occasions the Keokuk girl had
been taken for Miss Ferber, for they
were the same type, their hair the
same color and about the same sized
women. In purchasing things in the
neighborhood shops and markets the
Keokuk girl had been addressed as
Miss Ferber. One day walking
through an open square or little park
she met Miss Ferber and WITH the
freedom with which American girls
address each other, she spoke to her,
saying she had enjoyed very much
recent book by Miss Ferber and
laughingiy said she had several times
been taken for the distinguished
authoress in the shops and stores OF
the neighborhood. Miss Ferbers re-
ply showed that she did not take in
the humor of the situation and that
she seemed to be considerably piqued,
more SO than the Keokuk girl felt
she should have been.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye in its
Io1y
quoting from an exchange, said that
the National Anti-Suffrage society had
recently voted funds for anti-suffrage
workers in Iowa Miss Dorman, presi-
dent OF the National Ati-Suffrage as
ISOLATION Is quoted at some length,
the gist of the statement being an
implication that the leaders of the
suffrage cause are in league with the
| liquor element. For long time sur
frage workers have wanted to know
what sort of arguments aside from
the "cIinging vine,' anti-suHrage
women and men gave. Recently a
keokuk Princeton man exhibited
| bundle of literature that had been
used in me campaign against suffrage
| in New Jersey This literature had
been sent to former Princeton men.
There were three arguments reiterat-
| women are in league with the liquor
element; second, that they wish the
| ballot to make divorce laws easier
and third, that back of the yellow
banner of suffrage Is the red flag OF
anarchy"
Not a great while ago, William
| Howard Taft set forth in the Satur-
| day Ewing Post, the reasons why
he Think, women should not be given
suffrage The two chief reasons as
he sees it, is that they haven't the
mental capacity to vote, and second.
that they haven't had enough political
| experience to vote intelligently. He
didn't say just how they were to get
political experience, and In an apollo
getic way he said he almost hest
tated to say that they weren't intel
| lectuaIly equal to receiving franchise.
because there came to his mind a
number of women in his personal &C
uuaintance who had degree OF In
tellfsence-or words to that effect.
The article in the Hawk-Eye gave
a list of nine women OF national
prominence Cor with husbands OF ma
| tional prominence) who are anti-suf-
I fragists. as follows: Mrs. Robert Ian
sing, wife OF the secretary OF state /;
Miss Ida Tarbell, Kate Douglas Wig.
I gin, Mrs Eiihu Root. Mrs. Wiiiam
| Howard Taft, Mrs. Thomas Preston,
widow Of the late President Cleve-
land: Molly Elliott Sewell. Mrs. Gar
rett A. Hobart, Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, ST., and Miss Emily Bissell.
1t is generally conceded that Ida
Tarben is one of the greatest assets
the anti-suffragists have. and she her
self and all she has accomplished is
/ the greatest argument possible for
suffrage.
One of the great desires which is
common to all normal people is de
sire for money and for the comforts
which It presumably brings. Dale IL
ICarnaghey in Leslie's. has this to say
of wealth for the comfort OF those
who haven't it:
tine men who can AFFORD likeness
! seldom want it. Lincoln. Carlyle anc
washington never watched the clock
Edison labors eighteen hours a day
mot because of the final reward thai
II will bring, but because Of the hap
pfness he .inds in it. Michael An
cello, when painting his immortal pic
lures in the Sistfne chapel, worked
with such enthusiasm that for weeks
at a time he never removed his cloth
ing. Walter Scott arose at in the
morning and wrote some OF his novels
when employed as clerk. Rusk1r
uttered a great truth when he said
If you want knowledge, you mus
toll for it; If you want food, you mus
toll for 1t: If pleasure. you must toi
for it. Toll is the law.
, IF you have wealth you can pur
, chase 100 outfits Of wearing apparel
but you can only wear one at time
Socrates never owned but one pair o
, shoes, and his name is INN ortal. l
; you have wealth you can purchas'
!, beautiful paintings and adorn you
home with statues That wouldn'
bring you happiness. II you hav'
wealth you can purchase furniture in
: laid with gold and upholstered will
fine fabrics. That doesn't mean con
tentment. When Thoreau lived b.
Walden pond he found stone on
day that he fancied and used IL TOT
q LATER