Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-26
SECRETARY Rusks IDEA
OF What the Fair Ought to Be-sugges-
tiOns in Regard to Certain Exhibits

OF What the Fair Ought to Be-Sugges-
tions in Regard to Certain Exhibits.
CHICAGO, Sept. 26. Seer etary of Ag-
riculture Rusk has written letter set
ting forth his idea of what the world
fair ought to be- After a long disquisi-
ton on expositions in general, he
says:
THE exposition should not be merely
show, fair or colossal shop, but also
and pre-eminently an exposition of the
principles which underlie our National
and individual welfare of our material,
intellectual and moral status; of the ele-
ments Of our weakness and or strength,
of the progress we have made, the plane
on which we live and the ways in which
we shall rise higher. It should be an
exposition Of our knowledge, illustrated
by the material objects shown. 1t
should teach not only to our people but
to the world, what young republic,
with all the crudeness of youth, but
heir to the experience of the ages, has
done in its brief past, is doing in the
present, and hopes TO do in the greater
future for its people and for mankind,
Food Exhibit.
"The exhibit Of food can, and, in my
Judgment, ought to be one of the most
important, useful and popular depart
ments of the exposition. The subject
comes home to every one. 1t is of inter-
est ON the farm, in trade and in the
household. No department offers better
opportunity for a display TO attract peo-
pie to the exposition, to interest and in
struct them when there, and to leave
beneficial and lasting influence after the
exposition is done.
"The food exhibits should, in my iudg-
ment, include all substances used for
food. and with them illustrations of the
methods of preparing them for the
market and for eating. This means, of
course, displays of the products, home
and foreign, Of the farm, the garden.
the orchard; the mill, the establishment
for canning and that for meat packing,
the factory, the bakery and the domes-
tic kitchen. They should be grouped
by themselves in one great building-a
food hall. They should be so arranged
that each intelligent visitor may carry
away lesson useful for his purse and
health.
ITO this end the best teachings of
chemistry, physiology and hygiene re-
garding foods, and beverages as we'll.
should be presented TO the public by
lNDClSs iuOAcls, ultts idiilSf hpeCiIntllS uuG
books. The hall might be surrounded
by fringe Of separate apartments in
which should be schools Of practical
cookery. model kitchens, bakeries aud
markets. With other things, there could
lie restaurants, not only to provide good
food at fair prices but 10 teach the
proper use Of special kinds of food. such
as corn and its products. meats, poultry,
fish, fruits and materials for beverages
such rs tea and coffee. These could De
made highly interesting and useful. and
70 every holsekeepcr a contral feature
of the whole exposition. These ideas
are not new. They are only amplifica-
tions of what has been done in some Of
the Inter exhibitions. the fisheries eX-
hibition in London in 1884, The occa-
sion should be improved 10 ccilate in
formation regarding the subjects uf the
exhibit. and put i; in permanent printed
form as one OF the reports TO make last
ing monuments II the exlnsitian.'