The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-02-01
MRS. RYAN'S ADDRESS
To the Women of the Lone
Star State
ON THE WORLDS FAIR SCHEME

from the Great state of Texas May BE
Made Successful.
AUSTIN, Feb. 1.-The following adj
dress has been issued by Mrs. Ryan.
lady manager at large of the World
Columbian exposition:
To the Women of Texas: In compli-
ance with the request to address the ex-
ecutive committee of the board of lady
managers of Texas and with view to
answer many letters of inquiry from
different parts of the state who wish to
be earnestly engaged in Worlds fair
work, | take pleasure in submitting the
following circular letter to you. Your
attention is respectfully called to the
following compilation and communica-
tions from the national board of lady
managers:
The board of lady managers of the
Worlds Columbian commission, having
been created and authorized by the
concurrent action of congress and the
Columbian commission to take entire
charge of the interests of women at the
coming exposition, desires to develop to
the fullest extent the grand possibilities
which have been placed within its reach.
The board wishes to mark the first
participation of women in an important
national enterprise by preparing an
object lesson to show the progress made
by women in every country of the
world during the century in which edu-
cational and other privileges have been
granted her, and to show the increased
usefulness that has resulted from the
enlargement of her opportunities.
The board of lady managers invites
the women of all countries to partici-
pate in this great exhibit of womans
work, to the end that it may be made
not only national but universal, and
that all may profit by free comparison
OF methods, agencies and results.
1t Is of the first Importance that such
representative collection be secured
from every country as will give an ad-
equate idea of the extent and value of
what is being done by women i'll the
arts, sciences and industries.
We will aim to show to the bread
winners, who are fighting unaided the
battle of life, the new avenues of en-
ployment that are constantly being
opened to women in which of these
their work will be of most distinct value
by reason of their natural adaptability,
sensitive and artistic temperaments and
individual tastes; what education will
best enable them to enjoy the wider OBJ
portunities awaiting them and make
their work of the greatest worth. not
only to themselves, but to the world.
An Unusual Privilege.
The board of lady managers has been
granted by act of congress the great and
unusual privilege of appointing mem
bers of each jury to award prizes for
articles into which womans work
enters. The number of women on each
jury will be proportionate to the amount
of work done by women in the cor
responding department of classification.
The statement as to the amount of their
work will, therefore, be of double sig
nificance, for, in addition to the i'm
pressive showing of how large a pro-
portion of the heavy labor of the world
is being performed by the weaker sex.
1t will also determine the amount of
jury representation to which the board
is entitled.
Not only has woman become an i'm
mense, although generally unrecognized
factor in the industrial world, but hers
being essentially the arts of peace and
progress her best work is shown in the
numberless charitable. reformatorv.
educational and other beneficent institu
tons which she had the courage and
ideality to establish for the alienation of
suffering, for the correction of many
forms of social injustice and neglect and
for the reformation of long established
wrongs. These institutions exert a
strong and steady influence for good, an
influence which tends to decrease vice
to make useful citizens of the helpless or
depraved, to elevate the standard of
morality and to increase the sum of hui
man happiness, thus most effectively
experimenting the best efforts and
furthering the highest aims of all govern
ments.
All organizations of women must be
impressed with the necessity of making
an effective showing of the noble work
which each is carrying on. We es-
pecially desire to have represented in the
rooms reserved for that purpose the edu-
caconal work originated or carried on
by women, from the kindergarten or
carnations up to the highest branches
OF education, including all schools of an
Piled science and art, such as training
schools for nurses, manual training. in,