Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-22
BUSINESS women
TOC0NVENE HERE
Session Expected to Bring
Out Interesting Things
They Are Doing.

The fact that within the District of
Columbia there are many women do
ing worthwhile things in business
| and in various professions is to be
prise the average citizen by a confer
ence Of business and professional
women that has been arranged by
the local Young Women's Christian
Association through Mrs. Mary c. Ste
vens. executive secretary of the or
ganization. The conference is sched-
| uled to begin at o'clock Wednesday
evening, January %. and will con-
tinue through, with late afternoon
and evening sessions. until the after
noon of the following Sunday. Febru-
airy 1.
For instance. in connection with
this conference. which is being pro-
NOTED by and participated in by the
business women of the capital, the
Y. w. c. A. is making survey Of the
women in this city who own and OPP
crate their own businesses. The final
results of this survey will not be
known until late this afternoon, but
indications are that the total of such
women viii probably reach the rather
surprising mark of 1000.
DIR. Ada II. Thomas to Preside.
DR.. Ada r. Thomas of this city will
preside over the first session, at which
Mrs. Bertha Woodward of New York
,
York, executive secretary of the Ma
tional Federation of Business and
Professional Women, will discuss i'm
portant and timely topics
At pm. Thursday there will be a
conference, presided over by Mrs.
Woodward, and at pm. Il number of
vocational conferences are to meet
simultaneously. All leaders Of these
conferences are local women and in
ciude Mrs. Olive Ross, president of
the Welfare Workers Association of
the District of Columbia; Miss Ger
trude McNally, vice president of the
National Federation Of Federal EN-
ployes; Miss Clara Herbert, assistant
librarian of the Public Library; Miss
Steger OF the Lotos Lantern tea room
ano Mrs. Anna Burdick of the federal
ooaro Tor vocational education.
Open Meeting to Follow.
one Of the most interesting of the
| series OF gatherings is to follow these
conferences at o'clock, namely, an
! open meeting dealing with successful
| business enterprises for women. pre-
SIDED over by Miss Lena Phillips
! Ihere are on the program, as arranged
30 iar, Mrs: Taylor Boeckel, who will
dlscuss publicity; Mrs. SaIIie Burch
! 6ook shops; Miss l.. W. Daugherty
| Horticulture; Miss " E. Smith. publ,
stenography; Miss NJ J. Calvin. score
tarN OF the Women's Realty Exchange
| anu MISS anna blgelow, building con
strucuon. All these speakers are sue
| cessful in this city in their chosen vo.
| cations, and others will be added later
Friday will be occupied by a confer.
ence on housing at pm. and a mum
Der Of special vocational conferences
al o'clock, led by yet another grour
of successful local woman editors
doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, etc
Miss Ethel M. Smith, secretary of the
Women's Trade Union League, val
preside at the O'clock open meetihg
saturday night there will be a dinner
| at which Judge Kathryn Sellers of IN,
District of Columbia Juvenile Cour1
and Miss Mary Stewart, corresponding
secretary of the National Federation
OF Business and Professional Women
Will speak, while the conference will
close Sunday afternoon at oscIocL
| with talk by Miss Margaret Slattery
OF Boston at the Central High Schoo,
! auditorium.