The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
OF Interest to Women
BY wlnona Evans Reeves

~ .bo ,ast day of the Hamilton
chautauqua there was ieo.u and
nv Roscoe Gilmore Stott, autnor anu
,,.,gazine writer. A number OF heo-
ZuE neonle had the pleasure OF meet
~ hin, and it was a pleasure. Wneh
VS. eot home we looked through the
Mes of magazines apd hunted up an
We could find that he had written anu
every line of 1t was worth readins. ne
contributes to some thirty or 1orC
neriodicals writes jokes for Life anu
Judge He was so plain and unanect-
l. cd and friendly, that those VINO me-
him will have a new interest In tue
table OF contents of the magazines IN
Iookino for the name Roscoe Gilmore
S+ott This THE Music OF America
he wrote recently for the Ladies home
Journal:
This is the Music of America: Above
tho fret of a hundred routine duties
and a thousand cares rises the clarion
sonrano 1t comes from the !oylui
threats of millions of women biest De
yond their sorrowing sisters who oven
ON foreign shores. II is the voice o.
the clear-eyed schoolgirl, romping her
happy way from a world of books into
a gentler world of love; of the seif-re-
liant sister who is facing the forces OF
business with spirit courageous ana
step that has never learned 10 falTsr'
OF the mother of a tender brood ana.
blended into the meloday her own
heart makes, the sweet, lisped Groom
ing from the child at her bosom
The Tenor notes are strong and fuL
of golden promises. They come from
soul. that have climbed above the
city's boldest heights They come
from the souls OF self-forgstfui E,sn-a
proud nations watches upon her tow
ars whose eager eyes scan the Ear
stretches that they may guard wIt1
loyalty against the peThdy OF home q
foreign foes The Tenor Is the united
Toices of the poets and Philosophers
of the reformers and statesmeC-ysS.
and OF all that growing host xho have
scaled 20 the peak OF some ne~ Sinai
hat the people may not forget the Al
nishtys viii concerning them
Listen. and ron viii marx the rich.
rounded tones OF the ConualTo-fEcl
he greac-hea-ted organizations o.
Charity. Mingled into one vast sweep
Ing to1-QuivsrilE With snpsthy,
7io-an- with E hearts bss- faiths
the voice o. The nurse. bez1f1g above
some tran OF stricken sufferer. Ee
voice OF the uat-ol Al the threshold q
some gracious Door Of Hope; the voEcs
q the orphaasge. the voice o. TIE II
hrusr-. -he voice OF the rescue MS
sion the voice OF the Salvation ATTY
the voice o. the Red Cross, tie voice
OF the Christian association, Inc vcfcs
OF the church
And underneath The united harmony
OF Soprano and Cc1t-zlto. under RE
inspiring silver thread q Te-c-. -LsEs
comes The wonderful sEPpo-1 OF all
| the basis o. : nations S9-E Of EcV-
the splendid and terrible co1-rEo--io--s
OF sV-oag-zruad- 1ishtT-EzbA6 Labor
the Bass In the loE, deep 7esol-
ance OF the singers -ars volume ors
may catch vision OF lea- stern @
| yfsage and powerful IN action, 6o-i-
Cated by the happy unity OF VIII s-5
Service, pouring down into depths q
Mother Earth, that other men Day
have homes that radiars a socia,
! warmth vision Of men at forge and
flame, Al pillow and pruning hook, at
ithreshing machine and throttle. The
. mighty voice thrills with the Shrek of
2 a million factory whistles, OF sea and
2 river craft, OF rushing locomotives
. competing against Time and Space
5 Underneath all, the splendid and ter
g Irible tones OF giant singer.
J. SO. let Us be glad and rejoice! The
n tAll-King, as He sits on the White
I. Throne, marshaling His worlds.
It lpauses. He bends a listening ear and
Il surely His heart is made glad with N
n overpowering happiness as His ears
lie catch the strains of grateful peoples
ot reyerence-as He listens 10 the Music
IN Of America!
Of
Comparatively few people know that
IS II was an Iowa man Keith Vawter OF
ne Cedar Rapids who thought out the Dlan
We OF having a circuit Of chautauuua tai.
us ent. He was the pioneer in the chan.
es tauqua and lyCeum circuit business az
on we know il today. Bishop Vincent in.
re vented the chautauqua, but Keith Vaw
ter set II TO travelling from place IF