The World Is Round

Because Cristobal Colon (sometimes known as Christoforo Colombo, or Christopher Columbus), son of Domenico Colombo, a wool comber of Genoa, planted his Green Cross and the royal banner of Spain on San Salvador, one twelfth of October, 431 years ago, there will be celebrations throughout this hemisphere next Friday. On that day the Pan-American International Women's Committee will hold conferences in the capitals of practically every Republic of both the Americas.

The conference in Washington will be opened by Eleanor Foster Lansing, Chairman of the U. S. section of the Committee. Mrs. Lansing has every claim to being a true Lady of the State Department; her father was John W. Foster, who succeeded James G. Elaine as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Benjamin Harrison; her husband is Robert Lansing, who succeeded William J. Bryan as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Woodrow Wilson. Besides her diplomatic antecedents, Mrs. Lansing is at home in such a gathering because of her mastery of both Castilian and South American Spanish, not to mention French. She is a woman of affairs, a graduate of Mt. Vernon Seminary and Smith College, a former Director of the Y. W. C. A., a member of the D. A. R. But she is hardly typical as a woman of affairs--she keeps house herself, does her own marketing and has a face "that seems to have been cut out of warm marble." When Mr. Lansing was Secretary of State, every day at five o'clock she called at the private entrance of the State Department with her poodle and her electric coupe and took him for a ride. The Columbus Day conference over which she will preside will be addressed by Mary Emma Woolley, President of Mt. Holyoke College; Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover; Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Dean of Civics and Philanthropy at the University of Chicago (first woman ailed to the bar of Kentucky); Mrs. Maud Wood Park, President of the National League of Women Voters, and eight or nine other prominent women.