The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-23

rA1K ON HOUSEKEEPING
80, Hemenway Shaw Points Out
WAYS in Which This Is Bush
ness-Lops .ded People is
Another Topic.
Staff Representative.

Nv a staff Representative
uAMILTON, ILL.,, Aug. 23.-Ruth
rIaoanway Shaw spoke at the Hamll-
nc cha1tauqua yesterday afternoon
.oh The business Of Housekeeping.
ON ON. said that surely now the problem
q housekeeping ought be solved since
ovarvone was studying it nowadays.
sns,r grandmothers who spun and
wove and made all the clothes, rear
"a family of ten children, made
ser own soap and did a thousand
,hings which modern convenlenceS
make unnecessary today, never look.
ed at housekeeping as a problem,
she said. THE amount OF WORK
.hev did is often quoted to the pres
ont day women-Did you ever go
through an old cemetery and read the
Inscriptions on the head stones? II
Won do, you will find that those WON
an died in their early womanhood.
They died under the burden of the
hard work they had to do.
The business OF Housekeeping de-
mands efficiency. that is that the
housekeeper shall get the greatest
returns possible for the money, time
and strength she gives to Il. She
said that keeping the household eX-
penses within budget would do
much to insure wise expenditure OF
money, that time and strength are
conserved by the use of labor saving
devices. She said that to make out
a weeks menu in advance helped to
answer the question OF what shall
we have for dinner? She spoke Of
- pr.y-oy, 90 q r.
niture in kitchen to save steps.
She said that a correctly arranged
kitchen has all the pans and cooking
utensils hung on nails, as well as the
cooking knives, spoons and forks.
She spoke of electric appliances
about the kitchen, and said that they
would in time be considered neces-
stiles since they paid for themselves
in the saving of time and energy.
The musical for the afternoon was
given by the Orpheum company,
which is a quartette of Burlington
women who have been in the chau-
tauQua work for several seasons. The
company includes Bessie Watson
Niemeyer, whistler; Gertrude VIII
liams Lundgren, reader; Jane Mercer,
pianist. and Katherine Hassel, cos
tune soloist. They sang quartettes
and gave solo numbers for the first
part of the program, and for the sec
ond part gave a farce, Not a Servant
in the House. The musical numbers
were all well given, the whistling
solos were well received and Mrs.
!. Lundgren's readings were delightful.
! The parts in the farce were well TAX
en- and the plot was very cleverly
worked out.
The Evening Lecture.
The evenings program opened with
lecture by DIR. George r. Stewart,
who spoke ON "Lop Sided Folks.
He said that a well rounded charac-
ter Is one of the rarest things in the
world, that the faculties are over
worked through specialization or un-
der worked from laziness and the re-
suit is g race Of 1op sided men and
women. God has given to every one
some elements of greatness and has
left us to develop them. One who
thinks, laughs and weeps is an all
around person. The man who thinks,
accom2lishes something, he gets
somewhere. The man who laughs
and who has sense of humor, brings
happiness to others, and the man
who weeps Is man who sympathlzeS
with his fellow men.
There never was a time in all the
world when men and women with
/ brains were in SO much demand as
they are right now.
man to be we'll rounded must
/ have three phases of his life well de-
Veloped, his business, social and re-
hglous life. Most men are lop-sided
on the business side, women are like
/ ~ to be lop-sided on the social side,
and far too many are poorly develop
ed on the religious side. The world
is killing itself getting ready to live
and no one is living. We are just
rushing from place to place. No peo-
pie in the world have finer homes
IMAM the Americans and no one lives
IN them less. We work to get better
things to eat and then have no stom-
achs to digest. the good food after
our years of work and worry.
When a life Is well rounded, and
/ tlme is taken in just proportion for
work and play and uplift, then is the
man symmetrical and doing and be-
ing what God intended for him.
The Orpheum company closed the
program with a delightful hours en-
tertainment Of readings and music,
ana gave one act farce, Hannah
ulNes Notice, which was really fun
NY and wonderfully well presented.
This company hasn't professional
ar in any Of their work, but they are
all charming women, bright and clev-
er in all they do. They made de-
lded hit with the audience.
An Underestimate.
Kansas City Times: If Bryan
meant that million claimants for ex-
symptom would spring up over night,