St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

efforts in behalf of the peasants
Of Donegal, Ireland. has been granted
space for a typical Irish village, in
which will be shown lacemaking and
other cottage industries. . Mrs. Hart
about ten years ago visited Ireland
while a famine ragged among the poor of
Donegal. TO soften the misery of the
poor she decided to Introduce certain
industries, including dyeing, spinning
or weaving hOmeSpun, lacemaking and
other suitable calliAgs. The success of
her plans was so phenomenal and the
benefit to the peasantry so marked that
her faith and persistence i'll well-doing
have won her cordial friends even on
this side of the Atlantic.
1t should not be forgotten that the
entire scheme of Woman'S representa-
tion at Chicago, and the structure that
is intended to show to the world the
liberty, the progress and the independ-
ence of American women were all con-
ceived i'll the brain OF a woman. When
finished that structure will bear COM
parison architecturally and artistical!y
with any of the splendid editices on the
grounds As an illustration of what
woman can do up to date and as a fore
Shadowing of what she may yet do i'll
opened to her sex it has far broader
significance than attaches to it in con-
necton with the exposition. Hereafter
let no caViler OF critic cry or eXclaim at
feminine weakness or incapaclty. let
no Philstine point even to the statuary
of Venice, Milan and Rome and cry out,
"Where is the invention of woman"
Credit for the origin of this splendid
conception should be given where it
belongs-to the members of the Isa-
bella association, of Chicago. These
ladies', besides devoting tlreleSs en-
ergies to the woman'S building,
will have separate structure Of their
own which will indeed be a House
erahly smaller than their seX's main en-
terprise. When this project of
woman's building was first mooted
these ladies set apart their own
personal funds for prizes for the
best designs and plans. Others immedi-
ately combined and took every means
to kindie the enthusiasm of their So
cietieS throughout the country. The re-
suit has been something totally beyond
expectation. 1t is no eXaggeration to
say that millions of women represent
ing powerful organizations are auxiliary
TO the woman's building Of the fair both
in this country and in Europe. Among
the foreign organizations who are act
lively working for its success are the
Red Cross Association of Prussia
its own), the Bohemian Women's
union. the Irish Cottage Industrial as
sociation and large number of musi-
cal societies in Germany and Austria.
Miss Wizards Woman's Christian
Temperance union, with. Its numbers
running into the hundreds of thousands
all over the world, the Kings Daugh-
ters, the various Young Women's Chris
tian Associations of America. the Phil
adelphia Exchange for ,Women's Work,
Miss Clara Barton's Red Cross .asSocia-
ton, the National Women Relief corps,
the National. American Women's .Suf-
frage association, the Daughters of the
Revolution, the Daughters, of 1912,
tiiS Working Girls association, the Wo-
men's Baking Powder company, the Ma
tional Federation for tire Promotion of
Physical Culture, the Association OF
Original Women Dentists, various
women's press leagues, decorative art
societies, women's exchanges and similar
organizations, too numerous to mention
here, are generously contributing to the
success of the project which has become
very dear to their hearts. Thus it will
be seen that the women will be repre-
sented at Chicago in no narrow or lin
tied fashion, but by phalanx as strong
and broad and far-reachng as the most
ambitious among them could desire.
Mrs. Potter Palmer gave the keynote
to woman's part i'll the fair when she
defined the purpose of the board of lady
managers in these words: $50 give an
adequate idea of the extent OF what is |
being done byswomen in the arts, sci |
ences and industries. To show to the |