The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-21
The Cub is Second in Line Among the
Women This Morning and Didn't
gwen Have Time to Powder
Her Nose
ARITHMETIC CLASS BUSY
i. Was Hard Wcrk 70 Swear But
Haruer to Figure Up ssst He"
May Years She Had Lived
ie k>ekuS.

/ Thrills none sensations aruznf
TIE haa-e, tEc: sensations around me
head ssyera,- h.oners pulled Is me
ioHctal bulletin posted by the cnp
tris morning wn el shs -etHrneo rom
he HrSs SsrI regisTaocn place 81
s-1a n'csock First assignment lor
cab oe.obe- 81 was stc-F On reziS-
t-tson sensations
! Come On Margie. ven take YOU
ever we're TIE words w1uca geSso
re this ironing when ! entered the
news -oo17 az The Gate City oflcs a.
4--ss O'Clock. FIRE minutes ahead OF
time. and before ! could read the let
leg which lay on ny desk or eFen SO
sSrnu-a the usual morning ce1e-
monies which consist Of a COCA
morning 20 each person II the room
and a response: the sharpening OF
my pencil and TIE winding OF NY
xa.eh. setting up exercises eon11ctsd
8by kindly disposed members OF Inc
STAFF. ] was SoTcibiy elected IRON the
oace and then more politely escorted
across The street 20 the Sixth street
fire station 10 REGISTER.
The few hundred feet was covered
in too short a time q didn't eTen
have time 10 apply little powder
( 10 N. nose) and We were inside the
registration place. Failure 10 use
technical terms in speaking OF the
mechanical political operations under
went HiIl kindly De overlooked Mrs.
Fred 4. overton and Miss Mamie NJ
Smith were there 10 greet me and IN
addition to them there were several
men who had come early in order TO
avoid the rush. and to give timely
advice 10 tie women
The Judgment book" was the first
REGISTRATION article which l observed.
NJ name cane right after my fathers
and mothers SO knew / was N good
company II, ali seemed 50 simple at
this point that there wasn't a single
symptom OF q thrill Just then l
heard someone say, You have to
swear and then / was-aimost-
shocked because / had understood
IA: outrage was gift from the
;Onnipoteat and cherished some
thing We women had fought for, for
hundreds Of years and then TO be
told enas we had TO swear. But the
mar ,riao conducted the swearing did
L: beautifully and it sounded more
iIske marriage vows than anything
else. Il someone had presented a
Wedding ring al this stage OF the
game, Ehocld have been convinced
Il was getting married, and il was at
this potnt tia: heart sensation NUM-
be- two Tas tabled.
Following The swearing ceremony,
II took ny place al the little card
table across from MI Gray and
answered al OF his questions and
some more. 100 tHere's where the
majority OF the boners we're pulled
Il was tnp generous with my iafor-
nation, x was easy enough to tell
hin I ras twenty-five years old, but
ron .aen OF mental sensations and
worries overwhelmed me. l was
ssren years old when / moved TO
Keokuk, was twenty-five row, how
long had / lived aers2 was only one
OF the mathematical problems | had
20 solve by oral arithmetic in the
presence of 4 half dozen nisn-and
when I was signing up for the first
time, too. But finally it was all over
and somebody congratulated me, q
mentioned before the 3rocess COZ
tanned some Of the elements Of a
wedding.) And / walked out Of the
station grinning and feeling quite
sure that I Was IN honest to good
ness eligible voter and that ! had
really done the Job rather neatly.
This story IL ali the fault OF the
city editor i didn't want 10 write il.