Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-06
THE LADY MANAGERS
MRS. JUDGE PAUL TELLS WHAT THEY
ARE DOING FOR THE FAIR.
women's Assistance RecogniEed-what
Illinois Has Done-CoIorado, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and other States.
Written for the pispatch.l


tho lady managers. says: THE work OF
the Woman's Board Is well systematized
and is progressing in way that cannot
fail 70 secure astonishing results." He
further pays them very high compliment
when he says: The Board of Lady Man
ayers, like the national commissioners are
supposed TO be equally divided in politics,
but so far as their sessions and
work are concerned no one could
! ever discover that they have any politics
at oil" statement which shows how fully
they realize their responsibility To the in
terest OF women everywhere. For this
! board has been granted bv the action OF
| Congress and the llberality Of the National
/ Commission power and authority such as
| was never before delegated TO any organl-
zation of women, and they are unit in
aiming TO use 1t for the good OF woman
\ kind.
In many of the States and Territories
/ the value Of woman's assistance IN Sc
! curing full exhibit of the States re-
/ sources and possibilities has been recOg-
! nized, and women of capacity and energy
] have been placed upon the State boards
! or associations organized for Worlds Fair
/ work, and their intelligent cooperation
/ has been found 10 greatly promote the
! success of such associations. There are
/ many departments Of such work that seem
! TO come naturally under the supervision
/ of Won en-. In some of the States the
/ women's departments or organizations are
| Independent, but in most of them men
! and women work together under the same
! official leadership to secure complete
| and creditablo exhibit.
ILLINOIS IN THE LEAD.
! Illinois, as becomes the home of the Ex-
position, takes the lead in this liberality
| to women. She has been princely IN her
| generosity to her daughters. She has
/ created an independent board Of women
and given them the abundant allowance
! Of $50 900 10 carry out their plans. They
! will have a splendid exhibit which Will
! illustrate among other things their many
! educational and benevolent institutions,
| their kindergartens, kitchen gardens,
| day-nurseries, industrial schools, re-
| form schools, orphans homes. and
training. schools for nurses. They will
| also have model pharmacy con-
| Quoted exclusively by women. This
! is a comparatively new business for wo-
men and one in which their dolicacy of
perception and sulful manipulation
| should prove valuable.
CLOSE SECOND.
/ Colorado comes next. This rich and
! progressive young State has added num-
! Der of women TO her Worlds Fair Associa-
!
/ ment OF work. That embrac - Ga ry
products. pantry stores, PLAN and orna-
! mental ueedle-work, the natural flowers OF
/ Colorado. named and classified; such
! decorative arts as are the work Of women,
| aud a general supervision of woman's
! work throughout the State IN all ITS
/ branches. The great State of
/ Pennsylvania has appointed COM
mittee of women to cooperate IN
! the work of her Worlds FAIR
| Board, and has given them headquarters,
! a secretary, and an appropriation. Ihey
will present among other industries most
/ instructive display of silk-culture. Mrs.
| John b. Lucas, the president OF the Mo-
mans Silk-Culture ASSOCIATION OF Penn
sylvania, says that this country spends
| annually S30,000.C00 in the purchase OF
raw material for the manufacture OF silk
fabrics, and that by proper attention 10
the business and by perfecting the deli
! cate machinery requisite TINS entire
amount might be kept at home. This Is
an industry which employs many women
and girls.
OTHER STATES.
Ohio will present beautiful and artistic
| display of pottery aud wood-carvlng, III
| which her women are pTe-eminent The
! Conservatory of Music and the School of
! Design of Cincinnati will make special
| effort to show the excellence OF their
| methods and the fine work accomplished.
| Ohio women will prove that their aims are
not all material and that PORK and poetry
are not incongruous. In West Virginia
| also the ladies are taking great interest III
an art exhibit, and have already secured
very fine collection. Maine, Massachu-
| setts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware,
! Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri.
| Montana, Washington, Oregon, Texas, and
! almost all the States that have formed or
| CARNATIONS for Exposition work have
| granted recognition TO women, and many
others will yet do 80.
GOOD EXAMPLES.
Our neighbor, the Old North State, has
set her southern sisters good example IN
| placing women on her Worlds FAIR AssO-
citation. She is fortunate in possessing,
moreover, two of the brightest and most
| efficient members of the National woman
| Board, South Carolina will PROBABLY fol
/ low her example. One OF her lady man
ayers is introducing a new and compare
lively unknown industry into that State
flower farming. The flower farms will be
cultivated after the methods used III
| Southern France, where the great perfume
! factories consume immense quantities OF
flowers in making extracts, pertumerles,
and pomades. This fragrant occupation
| will flourish under the genial skies of
| the Palmetto State and will provide en-
| ployment for many women and children.
| An alternate lady manager from South
| Carolina is deeply interested IN securing
| fnu display of objects illustrative OF the
| colonial history of the thirteen original
! States. The prosperous state OF Georgia,
! in her cotton-factories and numerous other
| booming enterprises, furnishes work to
many women. Here and in Florida and
Louisiana they are taking much interest.
| In Texas and California the women are
| rendering great assistance III securing
! finds and in arousIng the people TO the
| importance OF showing the resources and
| productions of their vast ana varied 40
mains. All over the land, from the lakes
TO the gulf, American women are awaken
ing to the greatness OF the opportunity
offered them.
ALL woMAN's WORK.
The stimulus which the Woman's Build
inc has riyen TO women artists. decorators,
and artisans is surprising. Designed by
woman architect, ornamented 10y women
uainters and sculptors, II Is calling atten-
ton to work done by women IN many new
| directions Ii offers splendid oppoTtunl-
ties to the artistic women OF all the States,
| who are invited TO contribute towards us
finishing and furnishing by presenting
| mineral and forest products of their states
and by giving of their handiwork IN mural
paintings. wood-carvlng, brass-work' Ia
pestries, and other suitable decorative
materials.
AN ERRONEOUS NOTION.
In some sections OF the South there
seems TO prevail an erroneous notion that
the Board of Lady Managers Is composed
of "strong-minded women, committed
TO woman suffrage and other isms which
are appalling and repellant to the average
southerner. The fact is, the suttraglsts
are a very small minority, though II must
he admitted that what they lack IN guam
tity they make upin quality.
Many of the ladies of the board are woo-
men of brilliant intellect, thorough cul-
| ture. and progressive views and at the same
time endowed with every social grace and
womanly acknowledgements who can think
and work and yet be admirable wives and
mothers. Although the. proceedings OF
| the board are strictly parliamentary, they
are characterized by untailing courtesy
and dignity. The gracious and gifted wo-
man VINO presides over these sessions IS an
obiect-lesson in herself. Lovely III person,
fanltless in attire, perfect in manner yet
a consummate woman OF business and
thorough parhamentarian, she shows the