Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-06-02

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All over the world women aud children
are working for the Centennial Expo
sition.
And why ? hear you ask, incredu
lousy.
Because the Centennial Commissioners
have opened a department exclusively for
the exhibition of womens and children
work, and have solicited specimens from
one end of the world to the other No
woman is barred out, whether she live
among the mountains of Switzerland,
the dreary steppes of. Russia, the vine
yards of Italy or the sunny fields of
France. The greater number of exhibi-
tors, however, will naturally be from our
| own broad land and will include resi-
dents from every State from Maine to
Mexico The most energetic promoters
of this good work are the women of the
Northwest Territory for to them the
Centennial Exposition ut Cincinnati has
an especial significance,
This department is entirely distinct
from the scientific and educational ex-
hibits, in which also women win bear
distinguished part.
The former class viii include only
those things made with woman's hand
or by the dimpled fingers of some dear
child. Among them will be found ex
quisite bits of needlework, art embroid-
cries that would rival the looms of Ant
werp and Brussels, lace that might have
been spun by fairies on midsummer
eve, wonderful pieces of embroidery,
choice examples of button-hole stitch and
hemstitching, darning so fine It is an en-
| Enlistment rather than detriment, aud
| specimens of all the other stitches that
| omen know.
Then, of course, there will be the usual
collections of faded samples and patch
| work quilts that were the glory of our
grandmothers.
In painting, either on pottery, canvas
or silk, there will be an interesting col
lection, together with specimens of pen
and ink work.
In the more practical arts there will
| be specimens of machine sewing, type
writing, telegraphy, bead work, feather
work, designing, music composing and in
ventive work, especially in appliances for
the nursery, the hospital and for asylums.
In all, ninety different kinds of women's
| work will be represented At the begin
ming of the century only forty different
ways of earning living were open to
women; to-day, the Centennial ami
versary, finds the number more than
doubled.
The children's exhibit will include
every sort of toy or utensil made or used
| by children from q rattle to q rocking
horse. They will all be there, everything
| necessary to the health and happiness of
| childhood This exhibit is not to he seen
every day, and the children viii go wild
over it.
Little Lord Fauntleroy, in his velvet
coat and Prince Charles collar, will have
his heart full when he sees these treas
ures, and Little Miss Flutter, in her
| white frock and big blue sash, will dance
up and down with delight.
And afterwards they may confde to
each other, as did Mrs Piatt's honest
little sightseers at Edinburg;
''Im glad | did just one thing there
TN vain they told us to be good.
put my hand on every char
That said Don't Touch at Holyrood
Indeed, the ehildren's exhibit promises
to be so tempting it would be very
stoli1 LITTLE boy who would forbear TO pat
the pranclng horses as he passes by, and
as for the dolls and The doll wagons, no
little girl could be expected TO resist
them, B B. ID.
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