The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-01
.WOMEN'S SCHOOL.
COMES TO CLOSE
Mrs. Max Mayer Talks In Afternoon
on Outside Conditions That In
fIuence Housekeeping
Problems.
HITS NEWSPAPERS, TOO
She Considers Beauty Contests Will
be Frowned on if Women Would
Work Against Them in
Future.
HITS NEWSPAPERS, TOO

/ The citizenship school held in this
jcity for Keokuk women and their
!neighbors and conducted by Mrs.
Max Mayer and Prof. 0. E. Klinga-
man of the state university at Iowa
CITY, closed last night. The school
was considered splendid success,
l1O0 women having attended the 1ec-
lures and conferences.
i Mrs. Mayer and Prof Klingaman
gave unsparingly of their time and
energy while in Keokuk this week
to help the women of the community
in becoming well informed in regard
ito questions with which they should
be familiar now that they have the
right to vote. They Conducted an
lactive non-partisan campaNn for in
ltelligent thinkers who desired to
know more about the government
under which they lived and what part
| they were to have in the maintain
ing OF that government. Both of the
speakers have lived in Iowa for some
years and they were personally in
terested and familiar with Iowa gov
iernment and the state of affairs in
| its counties and municipalities.
The demonstration in voting closed
| the two days program last night at
which time the women were given
ballots and instructions how to use
them. When questions arose as 70
what to do, the women took them to
Prof. Klingaman who helped them
out of their difficulties. Preceding
the ballot demonstration Mrs. Mayer
talked on the Primaries"
| Mrs Mayors address in the after
noon on Madam, Who Keeps Your
Homer" was one of the best num-
bers Of the citizenship school. Ac-
lcording to the women who spoke Of.
lit afterwards, it did just what Mrs.
Mayer intended that it should do;
lit set the women to thinking and
gave them bigger vision.
"Who makes good housekeeping
possible and homes safe?" Mrs.
Mayer questioned the women, in
speaking of the idea of so many
people that the woman's sphere is n
the home and no place else. And
also, Can you define the borders of
the homer"
Local Government Described.
| The municipal government under
which Keokuk exists was talked
about by Mrs. Mayer and she told
the women how the public utilities,
| the electric light plant, the water
works, the board of public health,
the public library, the dairy and food
commissioners, the police force and
the courts all had their part in keep
| ing the home safe. ''And what do
you know about the men who are
I in the positions. Do they know their
jobs, or do they hold them because
of some political power which they
have been able to wield?"
Mrs. Mayer did not define waomen's
work as any definite thing, nor did
she say that it was not in the home. !
l"A womans work is anything that
she can do well" was her answer to
THE question. She told her audience
that the juvenile courts in cities in
the United States were not filled
with children whose mothers left the !
home often enough to become &C :
lquainted with the outside world in
fiuences which govern her home. but
with children whose mothers never
leave the four walls Of their domi
'ciIe.
The speaker impressed upon the !
women that if they were to preserve
their homes they should be acquaint-
ed with the outside forces which in
f1uence them to such great extent. .
Women in the homes spend ninety
percent of the family income in main. i
tanning the home and caring for /
those people within its walls. Should
they not know what sort Of people
they are entrusting that money to,
the part that goes into public funds
and distributed among public off,
Gals?
Hits Press and Beauty Contest.
Mrs. Mayer did not stop when she
finished speaking of municipalities
and public utilities. The press came
in for it's share. too. She deplored
the manner in which leading news
papers of the country played up in
sensational manner, the trivial affairs