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THE STATE April 1 1, 1936
Tarheels in New York
BY ALINE HUGHES
No. 69— MRS. EDWARD H. THOMAS
Till'! Thomas living room is a
very pleasant place on an April
afternoon, with sunshine stream¬
ing in through the easement windows,
ten laid before the wide fireplace, and
open bookcases within friendly reach
on all sides. Outside, robins hop in
the rock garden, which rises in full
view of the windows, with crocuses,
hrpnticas, and jonquils bravely bloom¬
ing; while trees ami shrubs show their
first green buds.
One might be in some Xorth Caro¬
lina town, and not within a forty-five-
minute subway ride of Times Square.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward II. Thomas
live at 306 West 245th Street, which
is in Ficldston, a part of Kiverdale-
on- Hudson, and just across the Har¬
lem River from the island of Man¬
hattan. Mrs. Thomas is president of
the Kiverdale Garden Club, to which
•he manages to give considerable time,
in spite of household and professional
occupations.
Under the name of Margaret Lor-
ing Thomas, she has written a numltor
of hooks for children which have be¬
come extremely popular. Three of
these, “George Washington Lincoln
Goes Round the World,” "The Burro's
Moneybag,” and “Paulo in the Chilian
Desert," have been chosen by the Car¬
negie Endowment for International
Peace for their international alcove of
books which travel about to small
cities all over the country.
Mr. Thomas, who is a well known
pntent lawyer, and who is the author
of several authoritative books on pat¬
ent law, has also written a book on lied
“Quaker Adventures.” He is a Quak¬
er himself, and both lie and Mrs.
Thomas are tremendously interested
in the peace cause. Most of her books
and Stories have an international back¬
ground, and she has the desire to give
to American children some sort of un¬
derstanding of the children of other
nation*. Her book. “George Wash¬
ington Lincoln Goes Round the
World,” is a collection of her stories
which she has told to children in va¬
rious child centers, schools and insti¬
tutions around Xew York City. For
two or three years, she conducted reg¬
ular story-telling hours at the Ponce
House on upper Fifth Avenue. Alto¬
gether, she estimates that she must
have told stories to at least 100,000
children.
Besides those mentioned above, she
is the author of two other hooks with
a South American setting, “The Pack-
train Steamboat,” and “Carmelita
Sings.” Mrs. Dwight Morrow wrote
the introduction for "The Burro's
Moneybag,” which is laid in Mexico.
Mrs. Thomas has also written the
background material for the Mexican
study hook used by the Missionary
Education Movement.
She and Mr. Thomas have traveled
extensively, and she has had many
travel articles published in magazines.
Poetry she writes “for pleasure," and
she is a member of the Poetry Society
of America, and of the Pen and Brush
Club.
But Mrs. Thomas taught home eco¬
nomies in New York schools before
she was married, and is a practical
housekeeper who enjoys keeping house.
She received her college education in
Boston, her father’s old homo, although
she herself was born in Greensboro,
ami spent her childhood there and in
Durham. Her father, Rev. •lames
Dike, a Swedeuborginn minister, had
gone south for his health, and settled
in Durham for the rest of his life.
Among his good friends there was the
late J. B. lhike. Mr. Dike was one
of the organizers of the Lyceum Club,
a group of intellectual gentlemen, who
Inter founded the Daily Dispatch, a
newspaper of which Mr. Dike became
the editor and proprietor. Mrs. Dike
was a pianist and organist.
Mrs. Thomas remembers her life in
Durham with much affection, and she
lias many Tarheel friends, both in
ilie South and in Xew York, though
her busy life has kept her away from
Xorth Carolina for a number of years.
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