Evening star., 1915-01-03
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der the suggestion and direction of Il
woman and to be erected by women 1t
has been thought fitting that the plans
should be drawn by women. These have
been prepared by two woman architects
and approved the finest for houses
OF this kind that have ever come to the
attention of the sanitary housing ex-
perts. These young women are Misses
Anna Pendleton Schenck and Marcia
Mead of New York.
models o. the proposed memorial made
for distribution among the large organi-
"a tions of women throughout the country
to show them just what the memorial IS
to ne.
Mrs Wilson's huma nitarian work in
Washington for the lettering of living
and working conditions, for the amellora-
ton of suffering and minimizing poverty
and its stings, was done with such close
guarding against notoriety that few IN
Washington realized what powerful in
auence she exerted during her short resi-
dence here, and the enduring character OF
her work.
Mrs Hopkins chairman % the woman's
section Of the National Civic Federation.
who introduced Mrs. Wilson in This work
and was her companion on many OF her
charity and stunning trips about the
city has prepared the following apprecl-
alton descriptive of the memorial project:
When the members OF the CIVIC feo-
Grafton read the little notice in their daily
paper that the alley bill, known as Mrs.
Wilson'S bill, had been passed by Con
gross in response to her dying request
and gone to the President to be signed
little did they realize how much, even IN
the all too short period OF her lie IN the
White House. Mrs. Wilson'S quiet and un-
obtrusive work had meant not only to the
Ln1a inp I'm
women all the country The papers
have scarcely touched on this side OF her
life it was all done so quietly. They have
dwelt only on her simple girl life in Rome.
her going to New York to study art and
there meeting her husband, whom she
married soon after at her home in
Georgia.
she followed him successively to his
positions at Bryn Mawr. Wesleyan Col
lege, Middletown, Conn, and, finally,
to Princeton. neither of them realizing
even then what the future had in store
for him and for her AS the wife of the
president of Princeton University she
filed her duties in the gracious manner
which was natural to her. AS wife of
the Governor of New jersey she was
called to a broader and more complex
life; she took the deepest interest in all
state work. accompanying her husband on
his inspection of the state Institutions,
unconSciously fitting herself for the work
which, as the wife of the President of the
United States, she felt was of her
first duties.
'.She took a special interest in the
Home for Defective Children in Vineland,
n. j., and such a home must soon be or
ganized in Washington. if only to carry
out her wish the subject.
with Mr.. Wilson's nomination to the
presidency. the country first began to hear
about his wife, and while the publicity
was very trying to her, and she hated to
see in the papers the photographs and
details of hers and her family's private
life. through it all she bore herself with
quiet dignity and was hostess all sum
mer to the thousands of people who came
to see the President ELECT. readjustine
her whole life in order to take up the
heavy duties and responsibilities which
rall to the lot of the Presidents wife
My personal acquaintance with her
began soon after her arrival at the
White House. and as chairman of the
District of Columbia section of the
woman's department of the National
Civic Federation, 1 invited her to at
tend a lecture given for the members
by the head of the Washington poor
house. She accepted and came, showed
the deepest interest, asked the most
intelligent questions, and at the con-
clusion said she would like to belong
to the woman's department as an hon
orary member, privileged to work
whenever she had leisure to do SO.
The members present were then intro
duced to her. From this time her in