The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-14
THE LADIES' EXHIBIT.
Some Things They viii Have IN Exhibi-
ton at the Worlds Fair-Inter-
esting Dakota Ourios.

The Press and Dakotan, Of Yankton,
in an interview with Mrs. VIM. Duff
Haynie elected the following interesting
information in regard to the ladies ex
hibit: Eyes, | have found many beauti-
full and curious things in South Dakota,
but in Yankton, where I had reasons to
believe / should find sufficient material
for an entire exhibit / was disappointed.
When / rode about this city yesterday
and saw the dozens of substantial dwell
ings, broad yards and other evidences OF
wealth and dignity, / fairly longed to get
into every house and hunt for pretty and
curious creations of human hands. /
know this place abounds with such il I
could only get at them, but that is the
difficulty. People generally do not
realize how important this matter is and
how much South Dakota will be benefit
ted by the exhibit. And so I must leave
Yankton just half searched. WATERFOWL
leads the state in the matter of having
furnished exhibit material. The people
there gave me every assistance and free
ly offered the use of their art peices and
curiosities."
zone of the choicest pieces In our art
exhibit will be an engraving made from
the original OF Leonards di Vinci's paint
ing OF the Lords Supper. Then we have
two original snyravings from the celebra-
ted Boidells Shakespeare and two
pictures painted by Mrs. Benjamin Har-
rison when she was a school girl named
Carrie Scott in 1865. Then we have a
rare and beautiful picture OF the Immac-
ulate Conception. painted by a Polish
artist. In the way of curios things we
have a rag carpet made by 50
years old, an embroidered priests vest
ment made by Sister Xavier of the order
Of Sisters OF Mercy in South Dakota, an
antique lace bed spread and pillow shams
made by a young lady in Plankinton,
every stitch of which was done by hand.
| We have a Father Matthews Cup and
saucer, some Sevres china, a rare old
plate bearing a portrait OF General jack
son after the battle of New Orleans, q
medallion with q portrait OF Patrick
Henry upon it, done by that celebrated
artist, Benjamin West, some real Spanish
/ Guipure lace made by a woman in the
Black Hills who makes it just as the
Spanish women did, using a pillow.
Then we have a small cabin composed Of
pieces of wood from every state in the
Union. That cabin was made by a
woman. Another woman has invented
a trunk which can be turned at will into
a wardrobe or a cupboard. And Mrs.
IJohn T. Coxhead of Yankton. will make
some altar clothes like those in Christ
church, which are the best I have ever
seen. Then we have a genuine Stradi-
varius violin, a cane made from wood
from the famous war boats Cumberland
and Merrimac and another cane made
from thu frigate Charlton, that was sunk
at Yorkton in 1871. We have a news
paper that contains an account of the
throwing of the British tea into the
Boston harbor. There Is also a sword
zane which General Gates took from O
Hessian soldier. Some repousse work
in silver. We have also the eldest cruel
fix in the world. 1t was made before the
year 1000. But I cannot begin to tell
you OF the hundreds of curios and works
OF art we shall exhibit. I am only afraid
we shall have more than there is room
for. A Bent piano to cost $1,000 has
been donated by Chicago firm. The
ladies OF Mitchell are embroidering the
draperies for the parlor's in the Woman's
department and the ladies OF the Black
Hills are getting up a mineral cabinet
for which a pedestal Of granite is being
made by the Sioux Falls women. I have
great expectations of Sioux Falls.
The educational exhibit will be a dis
appointment, I am afraid. Very few OF
the colleges in the state have taken any
interest in it, and neither one..of the state
normal schools has distinguished itself.
The Madison Normal has done a very
little, but the Spearfish Normal abso-
lutely nothing. This condition of things
is ~deplorable.