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LAKE, Marguerite Brunelle, Crannog, Forest Hill, Md.

Managing editor Journal of Home Economics; b. Mt. Washington, Md., Sept. 23, 1882; dau. James and Margaret Allen (Kromer) Lake; ed. Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, 1895-1902; Goucher Coll., Baltimore, A.B. '06; N.Y. State Coll. of Agriculture, Cornell Univ., 1906-07; Md. Agricul- tural Coll., 1911 (Delta Gamma). Appointed man- aging editor of Journal of Home Economics, pub- lished by the Am. Home Economics Ass'n, June, 1912. Treas. Delta Gamma Fraternity, 1909-13; Pan-Hellenic Delegate, Delta Gamma, 1909-13; sec. National Pan-Hellenic Congress, 1910-11; pres. Forest Hill Home Economics Club; vice- pres. Harford County Library Ass'n; studied poultry husbandry at Cornell, gave some lectures for farmers' institutes of Md. and Md. State Grange; studied horticulture at Md. Agricultural Coll.; helped run home farm for five years, mak- Ing a specialty of poultry and fruit; particularly Interested in agricultural work for women, libra- ries in the small towns and the country, indus- trial and agricultural training in the rural schools, and all rural and single tax problems. Mem. Am. Home Economics Ass'n, Goucher Coll. Alumnæ Ass'n, College Club (Baltimore), Bel Air (Md.) Country Club, Forest Hill Home Eco- nomics Club. Recreations: Driving, riding, ten- nis, gardening, poultry raising. Protestant Epis- copal. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Just Government League of Md.

LAKEMAN, Mary Ropes, 9 Summer St., Salem, Mass.

Physician; b. Salem, Mass., May 20, 1870; dau. John Ropes and Annie S. (Haley) Lakeman; ed. Salem public schools, Boston Univ. School of Medicine. Interested in philanthropic work and work for girls; has a summer camp for girls. Mem. Mass. Homœopathic Med. Soc., Am. Inst. of Homœopathy, Soc. for Higher Education of Women, Salem Young Women's Ass'n. Recreations: Out-door sports. Unitarian. Favors woman Buffrage.

LAKEY, Alice, 209 Miln St., Cranford, N.J.

Singer, teacher, worker for pure food cause; b. Ohio; dau. Charles D. and Ruth (Jaques) Lakey; ed. public school in Chicago until 14 years of age, then private schools and teachers, St. Mary's Hall, N.J.; studied singing in Paris, London, Florence and N.Y. City; pupil of Van- nuccini, Italy; Barbot, Paris; Randegger and Montem Smith, London. Sang in concerts in London, and Crystal Palace, Sydenham; now teacher of voice production and the art of singing in the old Italian method. Began work with pure food movement in 1904; was connected with General Fed. Food Com., which was made part of the Federation's work at her request; took chairmanship of Food Com. Nat. Consumers' League in 1905; connected with work of N.Y. Milk Committee since 1909; exec. sec. of The Pure Food League. Pres. four years, now vice-pres. Cranford (N.J.) Village Improvement Ass'n, where was begun the concerted effort for pure food bill, resulting in passage; pres. four years of Parish Circle of Cranford Trinity Church; mem. 1912 Nat. Inst. of Social Science on account of work for pure food movement. Has been vice- pres. two years of N.J. Equal Franchise League. Has contributed to Outlook and other publica- tions, newspapers, etc. Episcopalian. Republi- can. Mem. Consumers' League of N.Y. City and N.J. Recreations: Fishing, rowing, walk- ing. Public speaker, and connected with Lecture Bureau of the B'd of Education of N.Y. City. Has given addresses before many State Federa- tions of Women's Clubs, individual clubs, Inter- nat. Congress of Mothers, World's Congress of the W.C.T.U., annual meetings for two years of State and National Food and Dairy Dep'ts. Spoke, for several months prior to passage of Pure Food Law, on Food Adulterations.

LAMB, Ella Condie (Mrs. Charles Rollinson Lamb), Studio 360 W. 32d St., N.Y. City (summer studio, The Fold, Cresskill, N.J.).

Artist; b. N.Y. City; dau. James and Ellen (Harrison) Condie; studied in England under Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A.; in Paris under M. Collin, in N.Y. at Nat. Acad. and Art Students' League, also under William M. Chase and C. Y. Turner; m. N.Y. City, Charles Rollinson Lamb; children: Karl Barré, Katherine Stymetz, Don- ald Wingate, Joseph Condie. Received Dodge prize, Nat. Acad. Design, 1889; honorable mea- tion World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; Pan- American Exposition, 1901; gold medal, Atlanta Exposition. Makes a specialty of portrait and decorative painting. Among the important ex- amples of her work in interior decorative art are: The Open Book (for Roswell P. Flower Li- brary, Watertown, N.Y.); heroic mural paintings, The Arts and Sciences (for Sage Memorial Chapel, Cornell, N.Y.); Faith, Hope, Love and Memory (for Lakewood Cemetery Chapel, Min- neapolis); The Angel of the Resurrection and Three Marys at the Tomb (for St. John's Church, Detroit, Mich.). Mem. N.Y. State Ass'n Opposed to Woman Suffrage, Art Students' League, Nat. Soc. of Mural Painters, Woman's Municipal League. Ex-pres. Woman's Arts Club; mem. Nat. Arts Club.

LAMB, Isabel Haslup (Mrs. D. S. Lamb), 2114 Eighteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Physician; b. Laurel, Md., Sept. 16, 1864; dau. J. Walters and Susannah (Harrison) Haslup; ed. public schools of State; private tutors; N.Y. State Normal School; Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., M.D.; m. Towson, Md., July 2, 1899, Dr. D. S. Lamb. Has been on staff and on boards of women's hospitals, medical inspector public schools. Identified with various church inter- ests, foreign missions, social, educational and lec- ture work and Southern mountain Sunday- schools. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Rules of Health for Hampton Normal School, 1901; also essays on medical subjects; Case of Cetinism; Clinical Work on Gland Therapy; Non-Surgical Treatment of Cancer. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. Women's Clinic, Y.W.C.A., Med. Soc. of the Dist. of Columbia, Therapeutic Soc., Am. Med. Ass'n, Am. Ass'n for Advancement of Women. Recreation: Music.

LAMB, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. George W. Lamb), 109 No. Grant Av., Crawfordsville, Ind.

Born Crawfordsville, Ind., Dec. 8, 1839; dau. William and Keziah F. (Brannon) Jordan; ed. Crawfordsville (Ind.) Female Sem.; m. George W. Lamb (captain in Civil War), now deceased; had 3 children, now dead. Has worked for tem- perance and for woman suffrage. Written for several newspapers. Author: The Mystery of Walderstein (a story of Germany), Irene Lis- comb (a story of the South during the Civil War).

LAMB, Nellie A. (Mrs. Frederick S. Lamb), 356 W. 22d St., N.Y. City.

Born Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 30, 1865; dau. Fan- ning P. and Ellen (Daniels) Albert; ed. in N.Y. City; m. Alpine, N.J., Oct., 1891, Frederick S. Lamb; children: Harold A., Adrian S. Pro- fessional craft worker in textiles and embroidery. Active mem. of St. George's Church (Episcopal), N.Y. City. Director Chelsea Day Nursery; treas. Auxiliary No. 6, Stony Wold Sanatorium Corpo- ration. Mem. Woman's Municipal League of City of N.Y., the Municipal Art Soc. of N.Y., Nat. Soc. of Craftsmen, N.Y. State Ass'n Op- posed to Woman Suffrage, National Arts Club.

LAMBERT, Belle Short (Mrs. Edward C. Lambert), Jacksonville, III.

Born Cape Girardeau, Mo.; dau. Rev. W. F. (D.D.) and Sarah (Laning) Short; ed. Ill. Wo- man's Coll. (Phi Nu Soc.); m. Jacksonville, Ill., Dec. 17, 1874, Edward C. Lambert; children: Anne, Laning, Helen. Pres. Woman's Home and For- eign Missionary Soc. and Aid Soc. in Grace Church; organizer and pres. Woman's Club, mem. Sorosis, holding offices at different times for twenty-five years: mem. Art Soc.; sec Ladies' Education Soc. for ten years; mem. Ill. State Historical Soc.; an officer in Ill. Fed. of Women's Clubs for several years (repeatedly urged to accept nomination for presidency). Au- thor Woman's Club Movement in Illinois (in No 9 Ill. State Historical Library); also articles for local and church papers.

LAMBERT, Edith B. Lowry-see Lowry, Edith B