The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-08-10
WOMAN'S PROGRESS.
DEVELOPMENT OF BRAIN
AND HAND WORK.

AND HAND WORK.
Some Things to be Seen in
the Woman's Building at the
Worlds Fair---The Steady Pro-
gress Made by Women both
Wonderful and Gratifying
Many Famous Names Recalled.
Correspondence Baltimore Sun.
What can't she do, what hasn't she
done? thinks bewildered mankind
after a brief survey of the great
Woman's Building at the Worlds
Fair. If ever woman had her chance
it is here, and she has aviled herself of
the opportunity by suddenly emerging
from the quiet of her home, armed
with yard upon yard of statistics and
backed by an abundance of tangible
proofs Of what she has been doing for
herself and for humanity in general.
She hasn't stepped out before public
gaze without a certain amount Of
pardonable pride, for she has evidently
resolved to get the credit for every
thing she has achieved. Woman,
woman, woman, with a big W, is held
up triumphantly, if not exactly
faunted, before the visitor at every
turn until one begins to believe not
only that woman is nearly equal or
even quite equal to man, but that she
is thousand times better, cleverer,
wiser, more practical, prettier, more
useful, nobler, longer-sighted, more
courageous and more everything else
than the wisest, best and most re-
markable man that ever lived on this
hustling, bustling, wonderful earth. If
you don't think this by the time you
get out of this temple of femininity,
just try to think so while you are in it
and you will get along splendidly.
GALLERY OF FAME.
After becoming duly impressed on
learning that the beautiful building
itself was designed by woman,
(envious man might describe the
architecture quiet and ladylike,) } you
enter the main hall and are suddenly
plunged into the very thick of woman's
achievements, with a good, strong
skylight on them. A suggestion of
the solid ground on which womankind
has built her claim for recognition
confronts you at the outset in the form
of wide freze surrounding the gallery,
composed of the names, in great gilt
letters, OF few of the famous women
of the world. There's no getting
around such names as these, for, if you
are man, every one of them stares
down at you with an aggressive air
that you can't escape. If you are a
woman, you eagerly lay this dattering
JUNCTION to your soul, straighten your
self up and congratulate yourself on
being of such a superior sex. There
they are-Miriam, Ruth, Mary, Judith
and Esther, Sappho, Lucretia, Cornelia
and Boadicea, Joan of Arc, Queen
Elizabeth, Charlotte Corday, Queen
Isabella, Pocahontas, Martha Wash
ington, Rachel, Jenny Lind, Charlotte
Cushman, Mrs. Siddons, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Amlia B. Edwards,
Nine. de Stael, George Sand, Rosa
Bonheur, Harriet Hosmer and many
others of olden or modem times, with
the places of honor at the head and
foot of the hall given to Mrs. Potter
Palmer, president of the lady
managers, and Miss Sophia G. Haydn
architect of the building.
HEAD AND BRAINS.
Of course one expects to see ex.
quisite needlework in this display, and
} one does see it in its perfection from
the hands of civilized, half-civilized
and savage woman. The visitor is no,
even surprised and seeing splendid
paintings, original frescoes and designs
china decorating, domestic and Chart
able work and other womanly art:
conspicuously present. But this is fa1
more than this. There is educational
scientific, broadly philanthropic, polit
ical, agricultural and mechanical work,
so we'll represented that history o
the worlds progress is told almos
completely inside this one building.
> That's all very we'll, you say, bu
: she hasn't invented anything wortl
speaking of. Oh, but she has, though
Just take look at the exhibits o
patented and applied inventions, ane
examine closely the portable weavin.
machine, waist and sleeve pressn,
board, tracing wheel, kilns for tirins
china and glass, model of stock car
/ railway car appliances. horse detache
and brake, elevator model, marine
f signals, folding bed, trunk convertibl
b into a bookcase, marble fountain
e accepted designs for wall paper
e carpets and cloths, self-threading sew
r ing machine, wardrobe trunk, trun
: with elevating attachments, portabl
2 sink and pantry, labor saving cooking
S utensils, model refrigerator wit
! separate compartments and ventilation
e for each article OF food, portable bath
|. tubs, storage reservoirs for irrigation
v music cabinet attachment for piano
e and organs, rubber piano pedal, an
D oh, come out and see for yourself.
o The few woman sculptors hav
d always been looked upon with peculia
t interest as affording shining example
n that the noble art of freeing beautifl
forms from rough stone is successir
field for woman's work. A glanc
about the Woman's Building brings
to light the fact that she is making ais
n r. rapid strides in the more practical al
h, of architecture, as shown by number
e, of excellent accepted designs of builc
v ings big and little. Ore of these is
q plan for large casino, by Alice n
OF Gamble, the right to use which havin
n. been bought by a prominent buildf