Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1890-09-26
RUSK'S REMARKS.
The Secretary Of Agriculture Of
fers few Suggestions to
the Fair Commits.
sioners.
1t Should Not BE Mere Show,
but a Practical lllustr alton
of the Country's De-
velopment.
Suggestions for the Fair.

CHICAGO, Sept. 24-Secretary of
Agriculture Ru.k has sent to Presi-
dent Palmer of the Worlds Fair com
mission some suggestions as to what
the Fair may and ought to be. The
success Of the Fair depends, he ssys,
on the plan and skill with which 1t Ia
carried out. People are hungry for
thing- new. useful and conducive to
their intellectual pI well as their ma
terial elevation. The exposition mus,
not only come up to their ideas ~ 10
gre tness, but its character must ba
such as to inspire and teach and help
them. He believes the exposition
must show he history Of the cont.
nent since it, discovery, and to be an
illusti ated encycloT edis Of civilization.
Everything in !. he thinks. should
teach some valuable |; sson. He says:
"The exposition should no, h. mers-
ly show, fair or co'losal shop, but
also and pre'eminently an exposition
Of The principles which underlie our
national welfare; Of our material, in.
telIsctual and moral status; of ele-
ments Of our weakness and our
strength; Of the progress We have
made, the plan on which We live and
{ ways 10 which We shall rise high
er. II should be an exposition Of
knowledge illustrated BY the material
objects shown. 1t should teach not
only 10 our people but to the world
what a young republic, with all the
crudeness Of youth, but heir to the ex-
perience Of ages, has done In i's brief
past, is doing In the present and
hopes to do in the greater future for
lite people and for maukind.n He then
takes up the matter OF food exhibit
and after quoting arguments to show
it's importance and to that effect that
the rasearch is showing clearly how
the prcducts ofour fa-me may be bet.
ter adapted to the demands OF home
and foreign markets. Ii Is bringing
information which people need to help
them 10 fit their diet 70 the demands
ofhealth and purse. It Is also show
ing why foreign nations should, In
the interest Of their po rly fed masses
remove the bsrries they now oppose
10 our meats and other food products.
II is eminently fitting that these
things be illustrated at the exposition.
which il to be for the education of
both our own people and those OF
other countries. Focd exhibits
should. in bis iudg ment. include all
substance used for food, and with
some illustrations Of the methods Of
preparing them for market and for
eating. This means, Of course, dis
plays Of products. home and foreign,
Of farm. garden, orchard, mill, sstab.
lishmeDt for canning and that for
meat packing. factory, bakery and
domestic kitchen. They should be
GROUPED by themselves IN one great
building-a food hall. They should
be 80 arranged that each intelligent
visitor may CARY away lesson, use.
ful for his purse and health. To this
end the best teaching of chemistry,
physiology and hygiene regarding
foods and beverages rs well, should be
presented TO the public by labels,
models, diagrams, specimens aud
books. The hall might be surrounded
by fringe OF separate apartments In
VIII ch should be- schools Of practical
cookery, model kitchens. bakeries and
markets. With other things there
cou d be restsurants, not only to pro-
vide good food at fair prices, but TO
teach the proper use OF special kinds
of food, such as corn and it, products,
meals. poultry, fish, fruits and materi-
ais f,r beverages such rs tea and cof-
fee. These could be made highly In
teresting aud useful and TO every
housekeeper the central feature Of the
whole exposition. These ideas are
not new. They are only an amplid
cation Of what has been done In some
. OF the later exhibitions. The occasion
should be Improved TO collect infor
nation regaroing the subjects exhi-
bi,ed and put In . permanent printed
! form % one Of the reports TO make q
i lssain. s,on m nunsnA NJ iha mn roaiflon