Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-07-07

Il took the thing that lay nearest
dren's building. Its outward appear
ance is in entire keeping with it's pur
pose. 1t is white and baby blue, with
very little ornament and that small
and simple. The children's library has
u collection of the best books for chill
dren, and its walls are hung with the
pictures Of those who have written the
there and Thoreau and Mrs. Whitney
From there l went to the womans
building.
There is a greater exhibition of
needlework than Of any other one
thing, which shows that has been the
principal work of women. They have
reached perfection now. l scarcely
think they will continue in it. 1t is
dresome to work after we cannot pro
gress The oriental women are far
ahead of Western countries in needle
work. 1t would take a microscope to
see some of the figures in their drawn
work and embroidery. They embroider
in raised work beautiful figures with
expressive faces, and all the effect OBJ
tanned by elevations and depressions of
the needle work. All the women under
the sun, even the Icelanders, are repre-
sented. The Icelanders show their
work as silversmiths, cloth weavers and
dressmakerS. The French women have
the most beautiful things, as we ought
to expect, especially in lace. | Toasted
on the laces. Queen Margarite's laces
are not yet in place. Marshall, Field
~ Company had a grand exhibition Of
needle work, but both in design and
execution our women are outdone by
any and all the other women, except
the 1celanders perhaps, and as Ameri-
can women are acknowledged the
brightest in the world, what con-
ISOLATION it is to one who doesn't like
needle work! Germany's speciality was
educational work A model kindergar-
ten room and garden in miniature i'm
pressed me. In the German kitchen /
noticed the substitution of earthen for
tin in nearly all their ware.
design came EeXt. Women are max
ing great progress here. j should not
be surprised to see them taking the
field to the exclusion of men inside of
80 years 1t is certainly Of high order
some Of it almost good enough to be
French
Il next went into the assembly room
and heard an English lady lecture OF
Baroness Burdette-Coutts for fifteen
minutes.
Little New jersey shows up wonder
fully, in China decoration, needle work,
etc In the library she stands next to
New York, in number of books pro-
duced-aWay ahead of Massachusetts.
Went into Miss EWing's cooking school
Il few minutes and saw model kitchen
sink Cincinnati has Il lions share Of
everything She has Il great parlor all
to herself in the Woman'S building.
[ do not know why. In the English
wOman'S exhibit | saw some chairs
carved by the royal ladies of England,
for sale for charitable purposes; also
some very coarse and homely crochet
work by the same ladies for the same
purpose We may not be UP to the
French, but we know a pretty thing
when we see it better than the English.
Then | came upon the thing which
pleased me best in the WOman'S build
ing 1t was Il marble bust of Il woman.
| said to myself, What n wOmanly
woman, 1t looks like Dorothea in Mid
die March, and sure enough it was.
The mouth was almost too small and
full, the brow not quite full enough,
but she was an almost perfect Doro-
thea to me- In effect she was perfect.
Another statue called The West i'm
pressed me in regard to its fine express
sion of early youth.
"One thing l forgot to say, the wo-
mans building INTELLECTUALLY pleased
me as much as any, but of all the build
inGs it looks the least like women.
Il had tramped all day and never
seen Il face | knew. | thought [ would
call in at the Wisconsin building again,
and did so, but I did not even see a
face there | knew. Wisconsin's build
ing is unfortunate and homely. The in
terror, however, is very fine.
Today L entered the American sculp-
ture room first. That room expresses
American life almost fully. l do not
know why; perhaps it is because sculp-
tllre is just awakening with the rise
OF that realistic art which teaches us
to express what is nearest U.s. There
are two magnificent pieces of Indian
life-an Indian on his pony and al
Indian buffalo hunt. primitive Amen
ca, you See.) Between them is statue
of Charles Dickens with Little Nell al
the base. The other colossal figures
are Abraham Lincoln and John Watts
perhaps the two greatest civil and
religious factors our continent has
known; and Shakespeare, not an Ameri
can, but undoubtedly the greatest liter
airy favorite of Americans, as l imagine
Charles Dickens has been the fayoritt
novelist. Grouped about Shakespeare
= 4 head of Christ, better than the
average, and yet more gentle than
strong, Il beautiful baby in bronze, Will
a human arm and hand for a pedestal
and the head of a negro woman. A
the back of the room is large groul
representing Il struggle for work, IL
which is represented the worbingman'
cause There is nothing omitted tina
Would express American life excep
tie military heroes. However, there
is fine bust of Gen. Logan. l forgo
| to say there is very typically presen
| a monument to John Jacob Astor,
group of the Vanderbilt family and :
statue representing the Roman church
In the English department l saw ;
perfect representation of Henry Irv