Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-12-23
WOMEN'S WORK FOR THE
WORLDS FAIR,
IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS, PERFECTED
PLANS, AND INTERESTING INCIDENTS
IN THE PROGRESS OF THE BOARD
OF LADY MANAGERS.

The announcement made few days
ago that women physicians will be
given official and professional recogni.
tion at the Exposition, was received
with the attention and importance o.
the fact deserved.
DR.. John E. Owen, medical director
of the Exposition, in compliance with
a request from the Board of Lady
Managers, has promised to place women
upon his professional staff, and that
they shall in all respects rank equal
with men in the Exposition Hospi
tai
This is beyond question the most
potential result so far of the influence
of the Board of Lady Managers, al
though that has given an extraordinary
and unprecedented stimulus to many
things In which women are vitality IN.
| terested. 1t cannot fail to convey q
profound and world wide conviction of
the substantial and permanent char
acter of the benefits accruing to women
from the Boards efforts.
There will also be model hospital
! in the Woman's Building. This Is, OF
course, separate and distinct from the
official hospital of the Exposition, of
which DIR. Owen Is director, being
rather in the nature of an exhibit. II
will, however, be fully equipped, with
physicians and trained nurses, a veri-
table model hospital, prepared to han
die the gravest cases of accident or i'll
ness, and here women will find another
magnificent opportunity to show their
Gkill in the divine art of healing-in
that field where delicate touch and
tender sympathy have fullest scope.
Adjoining the model hospital, and in
connection with it, will be the Depart
ment of Public Comfort, which prom
ises to become a novel and important
feature of the Worlds Fair. In this
room will be couches and hospital beds
for such cases of indisposition or accI,
dents as do not require serious or reg
ular medical attention. Here old per.
sons, lnvalids, sufferers from sudden
faintness, swoons, or Mysteries, children
who are temporarily indisposed, weak
people of all ages needing rest and 8
spot in which to liz down, will find
what they want in this room. A-mo.
ment's reflection will reveal the excel.
lence of the arrangement. 1t is scarce,
| ly possible to over estimate its value,
in view of the innumerable exigencies
I bLc COH'
| sequent exhaustion, and unavoidable
accIients attendant upon such crowds
as Will come to the Worlds Fair. The
weary pilgrims to the Centennial and to
the Paris Exposition who fell by
the wayside can fully appreciate
the plan,
Mrs. Paul, Lady Manager for Vir-
ginis, has written an interesting letter
to Mrs. Yogan, touching the colored
women's exhibit at the Exposition
The letter says:
GAS Lady Manager for the State of
Virginia, 1 shall cheerfully do all in my
power to promote the interests of the
colored women of my State. 1 con.
slider that they have the same rights
and are subject to the same regulationi
AS white women exhibitors.
GAS the Board of Lady Managers is
the recognized official channel of com.
munication through which all women
or organizations of women must be
brought into relation with the ExposI.
tion, we have no right, as we have no
intention to discriminate against womer
of any race or nationality.
81 shall take pleasure in giving to
the colored women of my State all the
information and assistance possible, by
sending them the publications of our
Board, and In every other way striving
to promote their interests. L have al
ready distributed good deal of Inter-
ature given me for that purpose Dy the
| Columbian Association of Colored
Women of Chicago, and L shall be glad
to cooperate with any one the colored
people of this State may appoint tc
represent them.
'1n Virginia a large majority of the
female wage-earners are colored
women, and it is but Just that the large
share they have in the productive in
dustrIes of the State should be recog-
nIzed. In the Colored Peoples Indus
trial Fair, Just closed at Richmond,
Va, they have abundant evidence OF
their capabilities and resources, and,
doubtless, in the great Exposition of
1898, they will present display OF
their progress and advancement that
will be most interesting and instruct
i've.
'It is entirely in accordance with
the sentiments and proceedings of our
Board that the colored women of this
country have the same right to exhibit
their handiwork as any American or
foreign women"
MANNER is one of the principal ex-
ternal graces of character. 1t is the