The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-26
rBy Winona Evans Reeves.l

TBy Winona Evans Reeyes.1
If YOU were to ask the Boy Scouts,
who have a camp at the chautauqua
Il ground, what was the best program
h Of the week, they would soon tell
you it was yesterdays They almost
went into histories over the Hawai-
ians and laughed and shouted with
glee over Bob Seeds hoary jokes.
The afternoon program was gwen
/ by Vierra's Royal Hawaiians and
company of four men and one wo-
mantle latter an American woman,
the wife of Leo w. Vierra, the leader
of the company. They played on
ukulele, guitar and mandolin. David
Kali, who played the mandolin, IS
one of the best known Hawaiian nu-
sicians, and made many OF the VIC
trola records which have done much
to popularize the music of his people.
How Music Was Installed.
When Captain Cook came upon the
islands in 177S, the natives had no
music, and it was many years later
when they were taught the elements
of music by some Europeans who
went there for commercial purposes.
Since then they have developed this
haunting, plaintive music in minor
key
The company yesterday introduced
some American rag-time, presumably
by way of variety They played
Queen Lis farewell song, aloha
oe,. both afternoon and evening, and
played "On the Beach at Waikiki"
MY Hula Love-" Lei Aloha" and
other melodies combined to make a
program which, if applause is an in
dication, was much enjoyed by the
large audience.
Humorist Entertainer.
Following the prelude by the Ha-
waiians in the evening, Bob Seeds
gave his lecture, "The Way 1t Looks
From the Road" He is a chautau-
qua institution, having been on the
circuit for fifteen years, telling the
same jokes year after year and al
ways getting laugh. 1t wouldn't be
a bad idea if he had his speech edited
or revised. He told Of how he had
Recently stood in the Indian school
at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and seen
five hundred Indians file by, etc.
That was probably true fifteen years
ago, but the Carlisle school is now
out of existence and few days ago
the property was offered for sale:
The small discrepancy, too, OF
singular noun with plural verb
didn't trouble him or the audience.
Everybody laughed and cheered and
enjoyed it all. His lecture was pre-
sumably observations made by him
in his travels on the road as a lee
lturer.
He said the first chautauqua, aside
from the original permanent assem-
bly, at Chautauqua, N. " was at OF
tawa, Kans., and that Kansas was the
first state to develop the chautau-
qua idea. He talked of his Sunshine
Book" into which he writes all the
jokes which make him laugh. This
book, he said is known around the
world and hundreds of people every
year, from all parts OF this country
and from Canada and England, send
him letters with jokes in them, any
thing that they think would make
Bob Seeds laugh. He read several of
the letters to the audience last night.
Women in the War.
As prelude to the afternoon con-
cert, Mrs. Oleson, representative of
the Y w. c. A. and president of the
Minnesota Federation Of Women's
Clubs, talked on the war work which
is being done by the Y. w c. A She
had an exceptionally good voice for
public speaking and made splendid
talk on woman's part in the war. She
said that 95 per cent of the munition
workers in the factories in England
and 95 per cent in France are women.
In this country there are one million
women employed in munition fac
tories. If they should cease work the
war could not be carried on. She
told of the dangers attendant upon
the work and said that these
women are soldiers in the war.
Work in German Lines.