The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-13
OF Interest to Women
BY WInonR Evans Reeves.

In Edna Ferber's story Fannie
Herself, which is being published
serially in The American magazine,
she makes one of her characters give
this estimate of Jane Adams: Jane
Adams would have been success
in business, too. She was born with
humanity sense, and a value sense,
and something else that can't be &C
quired. Ida Tarbell could have man
aged your whole business plant IL
she'd had to. SO could a dozen other
women / could name. You don't see
any sign Of what you call success on
Jane Adams face, do you? You
wouldn't say on seeing her that hero
was woman who looked as though
she might afford hundred dollar tail
ored suits and a town car. No, all
you see in her face is the reflection
Of all the souls of the men and wom
en- she has worked to save. She has
carved her job-the Job that the Lord
intended her to carve. And to me
she is the most radiantly beautiful
woman l have ever SEEN"
II you are a little confused in your
mind, and who is not, about just why
"a map should give himself to this
war, If you will read AN article in
the August American, THE War In
side Myself" many things will be-
made clear. Most people have read
President Wilson's statement as to
why we are at war and H. G.. Wells
"Mr. Brittling Sees It, Through"
both Of which are intended to ex-
plain all the why's and whel efores,
each in a very different way, of
course. This article in the American
is SO human and is written in a
plain, everyday manner of speaking
and deserves to be read by everyone.
Mrs. WINS book, Yesterdays Remi
nicensss of Long Ago, has this beau
tiful delegation:
ITO the pioneers who blazed the
trails and marked the roads, who
came bearing rifle and woodsman's
axe, and with their women at their
side, by strength and fortitude
wrested from the wilderness for us,
their descendants, an abiding place
Astounding in peace, happiness and
prosperity-to those brave men and
women true, this volume is affec-
tionately inscribed"
The first chapters are given to a
brief history Of the first settlement
of Montrose. Fort Madison, Nauvoo
Hamilton, Monticello, Warsaw and
Keokuk There follows chapter on
river traffic in the early days for in
those times the Ohio and the Mis-
sissippi were the great highways to
the middle west. The chapter tell
ing of Keokuk during TIVE boom Of
1857 is very interesting, of how Gin
the beautiful afternoon OF that fate
full summer, Keokuk was wont to go
on parade. The streets were filed
with fine turnouts, beautiful horses
drawing shining carriages and other
vehicles, well dressed men and bean
tofully gowned women, all bent on
pleas4re sand social enjoyment, all
certain Of increasing wealth and good
fortune, for did they not own Keo-
kuk propertyT Then she tells OF the
panic of 81 and how loss and misfor-
tune came for all and real want and
distress to many. Many Of the hand
some homes here were built in that
time of boom and prosperity.
Part two of Mrs. WINS book con-
tains brief history Of some two hun
dredl residences Of Heokuk, none of
which were built later than 1870. She
says: at has been labor Of love to
gather together here in this little
book memoirs of a fine period in the
kistory Of Keokuk, Of the fine men
and women who made 1t and of the
homes they built for themselves or
occupied for SO long time that one
inevitably associates the home with
those of longest residence there"
Heading the chapters on the old
homes are these very beautiful singu-
larly appropriate verses:
who sits under my roof treef
One whom I have not known;
He dug not the old foundations,
He laid not q single stone.
Where a thousand echoes greet me,
He hears not word or breath;
And the walls that to me are lettered
To him are as blank as death.
And as 7 sit by his fireside,
Family I see and hear
The CLEAN of by gone presence
The call Of an old time cheer.
Aye, though he pays the purchase.
have the right divine;
His IS the Shell, the Shadow.
The Soul Of the house is mine"
Miss Meta Hummer, a Keokuk
girl who studied last year at the
Sherwood School of Music in Chica-
go and who received her diploma in
June Of this year, was FIRST in her
class in everything. That certainly
is a record worth mentioning. She
expects to go back to the school to