St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-03


ingly done. After reviewing briefly
the history of the organizations and
giving a list of the officers, Mrs. Clark
said:
Mrs CIark's Report.
Minnesota has eighty counties. of
which thirty-seven are atpresent organ,
lied. Their respective officers ana
chairmen are buslly at work preparln
their reports. gathering statistics, col
Letting relics, painting, doing needle
work, etc.
The exhibit we perhaps will have the
greatest cause to be proud or VIII pe
our Indian exhibit. Really wonderful
beadwork, duchesse and guipure lace
and tapestry depicting scenes from In
dian life are being made by Indians at
White Earth reservation. under the
supervision of MISS SyDl Carter. They
are even making their own drawings
for their own tapestry. AT another
school they are doing repousse work IN
brass. We intend TO devote one
room entirely to the exhibit OF
their works, implements, relics,
etc. Their legends will be carefully collected
and offered for sale i'll the Minnesota bulld,
ing partly in prose and partly III poetry; ana
the places they treat of, as well as all other
places of interest in Minnesota, Will be rep
resented by photographs or water colors III
the same book. The best specimens OF ami
mails or birds from their old hunting GROUNDS
will be prepared for exhibit by clever taXid-
ermists Another attractive exhibit will lie
mantlepiece made out of the most precious
minerals from one of the districts which is
rich in beautiful ores m1nefalS ana purple
amethysls. In the same place lives one OF
Titfany's talented stained glass designers,
who will design one window for the woman
and npa for fhp Minnesota building,
Our floral exhibit will be most com Llete,
and will be represented either by herbariumS
or water colors. Ferns will be shown grow
ing in vases and urnS of pottery, designed
and made in one of our districts. In fiber
ware cottage. built entirely out of flax Ill It's
various stages, will he seated New Ulm
woman, buSily occupied in making rare
patterns of torchon lace. Orders Tor same
may be left with her. If possible we would
like to develop this new industry in our
country. as ali lace of its kind is imported
lace. Where woman's work is too closely
interviewer in our linen mills, knitting hber
works and other manufactures, to allow us 10
exhibit their work separately, 1t IS our lnten-
ton 10 represent them by photographs
while engaged in their various duties.
The same woman who took the prize at
PHILADELPHIA for her butter wishes to exhibit
a fac smile of our ice palace IN butter A
Saltwater lady has invented self-threadlng
sewing machine needle, which seWS Win
equal facility one or twenty-seven thick
nesses of cloth. 1t has been patented i'll our
own and eighteen foreign countries, ana mas
secured for its inventor French industrial
medal Two machines will be placed i'll the
manufacturing building, showing the clever
workings of this needle.
We have every cause TO expect good loan
collections, paintings on china, canvas.
carved wood, tapestry and needleWork; both
from converts and private individuals. Sue
cess also promises to reward the earnest
efforts we are making in behalf of music for
the worlds fair. Before our next meeting
we hope 10 know the choice of our state re-
garding its flower emblem, which we expect
largely to utilize i'll decorating our rooms III
the Minnesota building.
The $500 for the children's fund has been
raised by TIE young girls of Minnesota and
forwarded to headquarters; the receipt
therefrom received.
CoIored People Forward.
Apropos of the money for the children's
build {, | must say that the colored people
of Minnesota, of whom we have large mum.
Der, and who are exceedingly intelligent and
we'll Informed. were the first to come To me
and ask the privilege of giving an entertain
ment for the purpose of aiding i'll raising ouI
proportion of the money.
Two carved panels have already been &C
cepted from here for the woman building
regret to state that as yet only twenty OF
thirty shares of dormitory stock have been
sold. but it is expected that more will be solo
during the winter.
We have twenty-five committees For theil
classification we adopted almost entirely the
national classification. state chairman
| presides over each committee. To her al
| county chairmen apply for instructions il
| their respective work, and afterwards repor
| their success 10 her and forward their collec
| tons.
l have brought with me the circulars OF
| our various committees which explain them
| selves The thought that many clever young
| women. if given the opportunity to prof
from the knowledge and instructions the
| worlds fair offers could afterwards hole
| better positions in life, earn more, and act a.
educators by spreading the knowledge so re
ceived among the less fortunate in their com
| munities, awakened in me the desire to spare
no trouble in starting the scholarships, which
have met with the hearty approval and co
operation of The railroad officials. who vii
give free transportation. Several other states
have asked for the permission TO adopt thi
plan.
We hold a board and state meeting on tn
last Tuesday and Wednesday of every month
| and also several minor meetings during tn
month. At the former we discuss and de
eide upon matters of importance regarding
world fair business, and do all in our poWe
to further its interests The district manag
ers give as full a report as possible at tn
board meeting of all they have achieved dul
ing the previous month. The open or stat
meetings are usually of great interest. o.
that day the county chairmen, and all thos
interested in the worlds fair, meet fror
throughout the state and
Report All Of Interest
known to them; state the particulars of thei
respective work; seek and receive informt
ton regarding it; debate, and settle by vot
matters of interest and importance TIL
secretary takes the minutes of the meeting.
and after they have been read and approve
at the following meeting, files away CAREFUL
both typewriter ana longhand copy c
them.
ans Auxiliary of Minnesota has received
liberal proportionment of state funds for th
work, and the enthusiastic ana chiyaIrou
assistance of the commissioners. as well q
the heads of the church and state Arch
bishop Ireland, Bishop Whipple and Bisho
Gilbert Gov Merriam and President Mai
fort. The work is being carried on with til
utmost harmony in all the relations betWee
commissioners and alternates, state an
county, and II our exhibit falls short in n
artistic sense, the good work instigatea b
our president, the board of lady manager
will never cease to bear good fruit in Mimi,
sofa.
At the meeting in Chicago Mrs. Susa
Brown, OF Minneapolis, Supplements
Mrs. Clarke's report by stating that q
the recent Republican convention i
Minneapolis the women were invited t
receive ana entertain the visitors,
statement which was received wit
great applause.
HiaNatlla in Bronze.
A proposition from William Chal
ming Whitney, architect of the Mime
} sofa building, that money be raised fC
the purpose of obtaining statue ilIu!
trating some portion of the legend c
Hiawatha, was read and discusscC