The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-21
ISABELLA OF CASTLE.
An Exhibition of wOsnan's Work Ia Hun
ar of Colunnbus' Royal Fat rous.~s.

An Exhibition nj WosnaR's Work la hOn-
ar at Columbus Royal fmtron~ss.
Wherever the Columbus worlds fair
may he held, there must he also the cxhi-
bition-hoise for women's work named the
isabella house. The coming %internat-
ional exposition of 1882 would he u most
one-sidel affair IL il did not do honor to
the Castillian queen hut for whose SYM
pathy and religious fervor and Jewels the
man of Cogolctto would ass,rclly have
staid ON the Mediterranean shores. The
hattie has already begun, however,
over the character of Isabella. with, stu
dents of history on both sides OF the fray.
''She was a. bigot; she liked to know
that herctics were tortured aud
etc. say the a~nti-Isabeilas. "She
was "a woman of her times" say tl.e 9TH
ers, subject to the environment. when
public opinion. except for some dissent
ing voices, held IL proper that boiling oil.
the rack. or the flames were not too harsh
IA discipline for those who could not see
the truth as the established church and
state SAW il. She lIad enterprise beyond
her sluggish contemporaries; she had the
scientific imagination that kindlcd at
the thought of daring paths over untricd
seas
Read The Captive Of Castillo in A.!C:
Ewald's stories from the State Papers,"
say the anti-lsabella party. Read how
she Introduced camp hospitals. supervising
food and clcanlincss in camp; read Pres
cott.'' say tn. defenders of the queen
"Scc how the last ~thouglit of isabella
were for the natives of America. Note
Hio" rtt tJpits bt'T to etIi-
to treat them with the greatest
gen'lcncss, and to redress amy WRONG
persons and property" 1t is IL brilliant
battle, AS carried on for
the most part. and i'm the WOnan's Journal
of Boston besides. The household s4.es no
reason, after all these years, for not Civ
ing isabella her due. As hers was the
only moIieyed influence, that encouraged
Columbus, to give her name To the build
ing that encourages other would-be dis
coverers to- seek new paths toward for
tune would he cminentiy fit. Men do not
A collection of curiositics old lamps
and new, rubbish. puny efforts
i'm art or industry $50 they see, or say, in
am exhibition of wOrnen's industrial lpay-
ing, work. But the women see cncour-
agcment, written large; they see enter
PRISE, even if pointed by semi-failur.
try their skill. ingenuity. enterprise,
whether some. have succeeded entirely.
halfway. ar not mt all. They see Isabella
Offering her crown-jewels to help the adj
ventirer on his way. just as i'm the
present day they see tender women
who forcgo the soft cushions and silken
graceful beings, in order to stand down
on the highways, where helpless women,
unconsiders.d women. must struggle for
their lives. IL is the bread winners among
women for whom the isabella house of
lss2 will contain the most helpful exhibits.
| Those who do not see IL will hear of il, ut
least. just to think OF the new avenues
opened to sclf-rcspccting women by th.
courage of the few who venturtl. amid
scorn and kissing. To take a short cut to
honest self-support.
sabcll made the shortcut possible tn
Columbus i'm her day. Later there would
have been men and money and the discov-
er,r to do il; but she did il then! So the
women who for the quarter century have
also started venturesoIle crafts i'm un
sailed seas will all know h il mean,
to call ON their patron-f no saint-lsa
bella.