The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-03
harvested MANY
VALUABLE GIFTS
xeokuk Y. w. c. A. Gave It's
First Harvest Festival
Last Evenin0-slg
Success.
rEE OLD FAMILY. ALBUM
urs Weld Of Minneapolis, Speaker Of
the occasIon-shey Gave
an Impressive
Talk.

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vest festival last evening. which prov
Cd no misnomer, but was both har-
vest and festival, In some respects 1t
resembled an old fashioned donation"
marty for the minister, and in others 1t
IVES like a shower" for prospective
bride, and yet it was more Of flood
Than a shower. The invitation was
for those attending to bring something
in the way of vegetables or canned
fruit for the benefit of the cafeteria
Of the institution. The people of Keo-
kuk showed their appreciation Of the
GOOD work the Y. w. G.. A. is doing
by bringing largely Of their stores.
The task of taking care of the many
gifts was the cause of the exercises
in the auditorium being a little late.
Miss Eleanor Brown was mistress
Of ceremonies. She said that the
ladies' were taking up an old and
beautiful custom Of celebrating after
the harvest was garnered. This har-
vest, she said, was typical of the more
important harvest the Y. w. G. A. is
doing, gathering harvest Of precious
souls. She then introduced Mr.. Ed
ward F. Carter, who proceeded to
show the visitors the pictures in the
old family album. He intimated that
before they were through with this
the audience might think the accent
should be on the last syllable.
The following pictures in the al
bum were shown:
Ma, when she was girl ........L
............... Arminthe Hornish
Aunt Mary Jane ........ Miss Bindel
Grandpa and Grandma ...... Mr.. j. e.
Mitchell and Miss Lilystrum
Cousin Willie Sparks John Collision
Cousin Becky and her man 49,. Mrs.
Mandt and Mr.. HUDSON
Took the day they were married.
A friend Of pas, singing master
............ 49,. Fred kirchner
old clos Miss Anderson
+ Deacon Samuel Phillips Mr. Danielson
Aunt Minervy Hopkins Miss Trooper
Cousin Willie PEBBLES with cornet)
JOnn HOrnlSH
Cousin Flora, the belle Miss Swanson
Emma Beale, friend ;. Mrs. McElroy
Aunt Min, pas sister $500. Mrs. Boyd
Mrs. Bembrose and daughter ;. Miss
O'Brien and Miss Hambleton
The "stylishest relation. Mr.. Pierce
This is a unique but old form of en-
tertainment. but it makes lots of mer-
riment. A doorway back Of the plat
form is arranged to resemble picture
frame. In this doorway the people
posed to make the pictures. They
were dressed much as they did forty
or fifty years ago. Some of the pic
lures were comical, some stiff looking
and others grotesque. The appear
ance of the pictures and Mr.. Carriers
comcal explanations kept the aud
lence laughing through the entertain
ment.
Y. w. C. A. War Work.
However the real purpose of. the
festival was not for entertainment
but largely to present to the public
information of the war work the Y
w. G. A. has undertaken.
Miss Brown then introduced the
speaker Of the evening, Mrs. Harold
Weld, Of Minneapolis, who is at the
head of the war work Of the Y. w. G
A. for the north central field, embrac
Ing the states of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebras
ka
Mrs. Weld made convincing
straightforward talk, telling of the wal
work that has been begun by her as
ISOLATION. AS in the case Of the Y. M
Y. A., the work began with our Next
can border trouble. When the army
went south many young women Wen
&C the border also. Some went witt
their husbands while others went t.
md employment. In such a mixup
many OF the girls would have suffer
ed many hardships had not the Y. w
Z. A. come to their assistance, which
1t did.
when the present war came on thu
heid for their work was greatly en-
lsrged. Now they are attempting thi'
same work among the women that g
70 the great army camps Of the coun
Try. Many women live in and abou
these camps doing work incident K
mem, and many others come to visi
orothers, husbands, sons or sweet
hearts. To care for the comforts o
.hese and In a sense to protect them
me Y. w. G. A. has erected building
many OF the cantonments. Herr
courtesies are shown the women Wis
,tors and residents that are great aid
to them.
The purpose of the Y. w. C. A. ais
70 Influence the soldiers to liv'
eood lives. She told an incident o
oae OF the workers who was in charg
"a q booth at sale to raise funds
az the close Of the day she was late
uat the rest of her companions Il
aylng the building, and when sh
started to go, it had begun to &c
ar and she was alone She was
mute afraid to stsrt ont HIT il,s
.nen she spied a soldier going by. ant
sur was glad of this, thinking of tn
hiotection he would give her. Whel
., saw her. he made coarse remarl
ma, lnsulted the girl. Indignantly sh
/ thought, sir, you were wear
g the uniform of your country, bu
M nee you are just wearing costume.
me Young man was touched and dofl
.nF mis- hat he bowed low, saying
sue would forgive him, it would neve