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...forte is her naturalness. She has refused to be dazzled by her position and has gone on being herself. Florence Harding tried to act up to her job and Edith Gait Wilson assumed extra-legal prerogatives; but neither was popular...
...England, 70,410 Girl Guides in the remainder of the Commonwealth, 115,926 Girl Scouts in the U. S. and 56,013 in other countries. They assembled in the lodge on Camp Macy - a great rough-stone building. Mrs. Rippin, natty and good-looking, unveiled a bronze bust of Edith Macy (wife of Valentine Everit Macy, Manhattan philanthropist, who gave the camp) and explained the necessity for such a camp...
Near Ossining, N. Y, there was opened last week Camp Edith Macy, given to the Girl Scouts of America as a training camp tor their leaders. For the opening there came together Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from 39 nations. There were Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin, the National Director; Lady Baden-Powell (wife of Sir Robert who founded the Scout movement in England), who is the international leader; Mrs. Juliette Low, who introduced the Girl Guide movement in America (but American girls insisted on being called Scouts like their brothers; so their name differs from the name of affiliated groups...
Married. Leopold Damrosch Mannes, son of David Mannes, grandson of the late famed musician Leopold Damrosch, nephew of famed conductor Walter Damrosch; to Miss Edith Vernon Mann Simonds of East Hampton, L. I. The wedding march was composed by the bridegroom...
...most intimate friendship with sweetly vehement Olive Schreiner, but married before she did. His wife was Edith Lees, an able, ubiquitous worker for feminism and the proletariat. They exchanged a single vow?never to deceive?and insured their love against familiarity by living apart six months of the year. Ellis made his headquarters in a Brixton flat, where he abides today, aged 67, in the shy philosophical detachment that he has preserved for 30 years to speculate upon how to make life a whole thing?...