Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-10
Woman Delegate Here
To Study Anty inChlna
HaSHad Eventtul Career
BY WARD GREENE

A woman who has hunted tigers
in India, shot big game in Africa.
gone ballooning in Holland. flown in
the first airplane over Paris, studied
opera under Jean de Reske. ridden
Russian stations, and gone down in
submarines. was in Atlanta Tuesday,
to China for the purpose of studying
ants, which she declares enjoy the
highest civilization under the sun.
She is Mrs Philip Werlich. from
New Orleans. La. and. with. all her
many adventures, she is widow and
the mother of four children.
Mrs. Werlich is here as state chair
man of Louisiana for the National
League of Women Voters. attending
the regional conference of the league
at the Georgian Terrace hotel 1,
tuesday MK h1no Morning Ms There s are 5ois
different breeds Of ants in the world
and I have made a study of them in
Europe, Asia Africa and America.
You know, many people who believe
in the theory of reincarnation. such
as the Budhists and the Hindoos.
hold that ants are the only survivors
on the earth of a previous life wave
and that they have reached d higher
state of perfection in living than
any other living things.
Their government is purely altru-
istic, they never do anything wrong.
They work for each other and the
good of the state as a whole. Their
government is, by the way. a
gynarchy. which means that it is
government entirely by women. This
women voters. The Budhists and
Hindoos believe that the ants head
civiliZa ton as we know it and that
they will be the leaders when the
present life on this earth is ended
and there is a reincarnation on some
other planet. probably Venus.
THE study of the ant is the most
fascinating of any on the globe, In
order to find out more about the re-
incarnation theory in connection
| with them, I am going to Asia soon,
! hoping to find IN the old libraries in
ancient cities. valuable light on this
subject,
Mrs Werlich has led a life far
| more interesting and adventurous
! than that of most men. Her mother
| was an English woman, so, although
| educated abroad. After studying
opera under de Rezske. she was to
have made her debut abroad, but sud-
| denly got married instead-not to the
BRUSH peer TO WnOm she was en-
| gagged. but to an American she had
met only six weeks before.
Both before and since her mar
riage, she has Travelled over the en-
| tire world. In Europe she hunted
and rode to hounds, in Russia she
! br oke the wild stations of the Step
pes, in Antwerp, she went up 2,00C
| feet in balloon and narrowly escap-
ed falling into the sea. In Paris
she flew in the first planes of the
Wright Brothers. Ten years ago, she
said, she had luncheon in a subma-
rine several fathoms beneath the sea
On a tiger hunt in India, she haC
the buck ague'' and couldn't shoot
her first tiger, not because she was
afraid. she said. but because Its
soft brown eyes" fascinated her.
Mrs. Werlich is the author Of E
great number of magazine articles
She has also written a very we'll
known book, 'On the Iron Ratings
of VieuA-Carre," the old French quar-
ter of New Orleans, the city that i:
her home and has been for many
years past. Among the other &C
lcomplishments, Mrs. Werlich is
practical chemist. 1t was her faith
ers' business and he taught her how
to figure out all the formulas in the
percentages of dynamite and Other
high explosives. She worked on this
for months in his factory.