Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-03-24
The Woman's Department of the
Centennial Exhibition.

As contributing to an intelligent un-
derstanding Of the purpose and object,
we copy from the Philadelphia cores
pondence of the New York World, the
following statement in regard to the wo-
mems department of the Centennial Elk
hibition
The Women's Department of the Ex-
hibition is popularizing itself in advance.
The chief contributions to it will be from
the women of the United States, but a
considerable show of women's work will
be made from foreign countries. The
Pavilion to accommodate this depart
ment is almost finished, and the whole
sum of its cost between $4,000 and
$4,000 was subscribed by women. The
Women's Centennial Executive Commit
tee, headed by their energetic and capa-
bic President, Mrs E. d. Gillespie, are
working like bees to obtain more money
for the purposes of the exhibition, and
announce that contributions have already
been received from the women of Flori-
da, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut, Maine, New Jersey, District of
Columbia, Ohio, Kansas and Pennsylva-
MIA. Efforts are making in England,
Italy and France to raise funds to ena-
BILE the toiling women experts of those
countries to send on specimens of their
skill, and Miss Anne Brewster, a mem.
Der Of the committee in Rome and the
lively foreign correspondent of two or
three American newspapers, lately wrote
that she had called meeting of Ameri-
can women in her own house with the
object of assisting the Italian women to
hold their place in the Exhibition. The
japanese Commission ask for forty-four
square feet in which to exhibit the hand
iwork of Japan. From other foreign
countries applications for space are fire.
quently received.
AS the object of the Women's De-
partment is the exhibition of the highest
type of women's work, and also to point
out avenues of usefulness and profit not
generally known, it is proposed to con-
fine the exhibits, in a great measure, to
representations of sculpture, painting,
literature, engraving, telegraphy, educa-
ton, invention of all kinds, &c.-a clas-
sification which, emitting women's cloth
ing in all its branches, gives place to the
finer kinds Of needlework, lace-work, &C.,
thus leaving the large portion of the
Pavilion for the exhibition of the useful
arts. The Women's Executive Com
mittee have also devised some methods
towards the uniting of women in nation
al feeling; short biographical sketches
of eminent women of the United States
are to be collected in one volume also
volume of American cookery will be
compiled, the women of each State con-
trIbutlng not more than twenty nor less
than six recipes. AS these recipes will
be selected from probably large num-
Der from the several states, they ought
(if the most intelligent American house
wives disclose their kitchen mysteries to
make up a volume fit to improve gas
tronomy and reduce dyspepsia through
out the civilized world. For while the
cookery in most American hotels, res
taurants, railroad eating places and farm
houses cannot be surpassed in vileness,
the choicest American cookery is super
Tor to the best achievements of the kind
in any other country.