St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-08

or three months Of last summer there. and
was everywhere received with the dis
tinguished consideration that she SO we'll
merits. The enthusiasm and interest which
she aroused wherever she went has resulted
in the forming of various organizations for
the promotion of the worlds fair work for
women.
In England the Princess Christian. the
daughter of Queen Victoria, well known Tor
her interest i'll all good works, has since
formed and now heads one of them. 1t
seems that we ale not, after all, the first to
give women important public functions"
for i'll connection with the Paris exposition
of 1889 the French government created
committee of women to organize and carry
OIL "a congress of feminine works and nsti-
tutions." From this committee formed of
women, chosen for their connection with
important women's organizations in France,
will be formed the nucleus of another soon
to be appointed to cooperate with us.
1t is therefore evident that, owing to Mrs.
Palmer's rare tact and good Judgment num-
bers OF the most distinguished women of Eu-
rope are working with US hand in hand.
do not know how can better place be-
fore you ladies the aims of the board of lady
managers, eX plain state work, and also de-
scribe the Womans building, than by read
ing extracts from the prospectus of the
board, which is extremely definite on all
these points.
Aims and objects.
The board of lady managers aims TO pre-
sent full, complete and exhaustive exhibit
of the work of women in domestic econo-
mics, agriculture. invention, education, man
ufactures, literature, art and science; to
show forth women's attachments in all the
industrial. intellectual and moral lines of
human endeavor, in all the countries and
in all the nations, including her best
and grandest work. the reforms and philan-
thropies which illustrate her ideal and spir-
itual nature; to set before the peoples of the
earth woman's share in making UP the his
tory of the world.n
But its special desire and aim is to set forth
a complete and perfect representation of the
condition of women in every country of the
earth at the present day, ana particularly of
the women who are wage-earners, whether
their work be mental or manual; to portray
the legal, political and industrial status of
women the world over. Its purpose is open.
as the light of day, its scope as wide as the
EARTH
Ladies, the advantages which must accrue
to women from this display OF her efforts
are so many and so obvious that it will be
difficult to name them. 1t will show in what
industries is scarcely an occupation. 1t
will show that those in which man is
engaged in which women cannot also work.
and arts she is best fitted to excel; it will
show what the world owes to woman for the
moral influences which have shaped the
deStines of men and nations; it will develop
many facts not hitherto recorded; it will
open new and wider avenues of employment.
and secure more liberal recognition and in.
creased facilities in those which woman al
ready occupies; it will attract the attention
of the civilized world to her capabilities and
her needs In such way as must inevitably
But in order to show all this the board of
lady mahagers fully realizes that without the
aid and sympathy Of all women it is impossi-
BILE to carry its grand undertaking to sue
cessful close,
/, therefore. In behalf Of the board, solicit