The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-25
Women of Advisory Council
Blend Dissimilar Careers
Mrs. Egan Fond of Travel, Sticks to Journal
istic Work; Mrs. Edison, Who Wanted
Stage Career, Enjoys Politics.

Continued from Poos Five.
old she was sent to the Academy of
the Sacred Heart in Cincinnati,
where she remained for two years.
Leaving there, she went to Chicago
to have her voice prepared for a |
stage career, which she had def
nitely decided was the especial
niche in life that she was destined
to ill. While studying under some
OF the best masters in Chicago she
met the man who convinced her
that a stage career was not the
course in life she preferred.
Marriage. of course, even so short
. time ago as that, was not con-
sidered by the most progressive"
lay people to be possible in con-
junction with an aesthetic, artis-
tic" career. So, when Katharine
Philips became Kathsrane Philips
Edison she crumpled up her former
plans and desires and gave herself
chesrfully and contentedly to the
Joys of the domestic life.
Early in her married life her
family went to California to live.
AS soon as her children had ad-
vanced beyond the baby stage, she
began TO give herself actively to
civic work-her innate political and
civic sense became thoroughly
awakened. She, while in no way a
militant suffragist, was. neverthe-
less, an ardent worker for the vote
for women. After this measure
was obtained in California, she de-
voted herself to public welfare
work-that civic catchall of women
inclined TO political and social serv-
ice.
AIDS LEGISLATION FOR
WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.
Mrs. Edison has been especially
active in securing effective bene-
hcial legislation in behalf of women
in industry. Somewhat contrary to
the current opinion that women are
distinctly personal in their attitude
and. can see minutiae better than
mountains, Mrs. Edison has this to
say: 81
Individuals don't count. COM
paratively speaking-the movement
is the thing"
This handsome, vigorous, brown
eyed, grayish-haired woman has three
CHILDREN who are keeping things
straight for their father while their
mother is attending the conference.
Katherin is a classic dancer OF wide
reputation in the West; Charles Far
well is studying at a medical school
in his home town." Los Angeles;
and Philips. the baby of the family.
football playing Junior in high school.
He writes charming letters to his
mother describing in detail the foot
ball contests which he never misses
an opportunity to attend.
MRS. WINTER BUSIEST
WOMAN OF QUARTET.
Mrs Thomas G. Winter Of Min
neapolis, Mimi, although from the
East until, soon after her college
days, she met on a trip over the
Canadian Pacific a young Englishman
who appealed to her sufficiently to
cause her to take up her residence
in the Middle-West, nevertheless, she
is essentially of her adopted section.
By this l do mean that she reflects
the Middle-west OF Main street de-
lineation. but the Middle West per-
haps Of large cities-at any rate the
Mfddle-West that breathes of the
plains and broad-open spaces.
Mrs. Winter is doubtless the bust
only has TO serve on two committees
in her conference work. but she has
to keep up her work as president of
the General Federation OF women's
Clubs. This demands her presence
in the far and near corners of the
country. and not only her presence
but a speech-and a speech from
Mrs. Winter means that one will hear
words Of wisdom and sound judg-
ment. She has a remarkable breadth
of vision and depth of thought; and
while she might be termed an IDEAL
list. still she Is an idealist who has
her feet planted firmly on the grouns.
GIVES UP WRITING
FOR CIVIC CAREER.
Mrs. Winter. after her graduation
from Wellesley College and a year
or two of teaching, decided that she
would be novelist. so she proceeded
to write two novels-I believe she
has forgotten their names. She was
convinced later that civic career would
be the more satisfactory, and so gave
herself enthusiastically to civic bet
terment in Minneapolis.
The only son Of the Winters met
death tragically in one of those I'M
loaded-pistol accidents. Their daugh-
ter. Edith. is the wife of Knowlton
Lyman Ames, jr. of Chicago, the
nephew Of Gen. Charles Dawes. Both
Mr.. Winter and the daughter were
war workers in France, where they
met Mr.. Ames, who was serving as
an artillery officer in the A. E. F.
He is now the manager of the Chicago
Journal OF Commerce. There is
little grandson whose picture the
grandmother carries with her on all
of her frequent trips.
MRS. BIRD SUGGESTS
NEW ENGLAND ORIGIN.
The other grandmother on the
advisory committee is Mrs. Charles
Sumner Bird. of East Walpole. Mass.
She comes of a family that has been
American almost ever since there has
been an America. None Of her family
came to this country later than the
latter part of the 18th century, so
Mrs. Bird Is a reaa "old-timer."
A few moments with Mrs. Bird |
sumces to convince one of her New
She suggests the poise
and Nrepression-or perhaps to use a |
possible synonym. self-controHcom-
monty associated with the extreme |
section of this democ-
racy. She could never speak, for
instance with the enthusiasm that
everything that Mrs. Egan
says By this I do not wilfully draw
; comparison, for ] feel the antason-