National Affairs: Lady Candidate

Many things fill the mind, take the time of busy Mrs. Anna Thomsen Milburn of Seattle: gardening, charity work, symphonic music, society women's rights. Says Mrs. Milburn pungently: "Mentality is neither male nor female." But what makes Mrs. Milburn really furrow her brow is money.

Money is an academic subject to wealthy Mrs. Milburn, who is a daughter of the late Moritz Thomsen, west-coast manufacturer, capitalist and head of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. But it is an academic subject that fascinates her. There is nothing she loves better than to read a book or give a lecture on the evils...

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