The herald., 1893-08-15

betl0n OF everyone, au they are C0mprl
hensible, we'll painted and decidedly th
best works of the kind to be found upo
the grounds.
\ Barring this central .conft. the builG
ing is cut MP into many email rooml
There are eight Of these on the first Q
ground floor, and, classified, consist Z
two scientific rooms, two sales roomi
nlled with woman's exchange pape
decorations and such stuff, one disma
room known as patents and inventions
and another. the process department
the other two embrace educational, eth
biological, Indian, Smithsonian and the
exhibit OF Mrs. French Sheldon.
Perhaps one may find two or thre,
companions in these rooms. One wa,
reminded while stealing about of Moore
lines:
II feel like one who treads along some banque
| hall deserted,
Whose, lights are fed, whose garlands dead
ana all but he departed"
The two end psyilions contain tho ex,
hibits OF foreign countries with some
small cases for our states. While, oil
course, there is almost every industry
and branch Of work to be found here ae
performed by women. the general and
lasting impression after seeing it all is
sAesso Ae 40 huOStiy ACCulSWOIk, CDluh
painting and few canvases. Belgium
shows pictures, stained glass windows
and embroidery; Austria, ecciesiastical
embroidery. q panel screen painted by
the Archduchess Maria Theresa and
some more embroidery; Spain, con-
vent needlework and ''danby"
painting; Siam, tineel en-
broidery; Mexico wax prints, needle
work, native costumes and shell work !;
Japan, the interior of miniature dwell.
ing, q cloissone vase and some samples
OF silk. Italy has truly wonderful and
beautiful display of rare, costly and
royal laces, embracing every make from
its earliest history. RussiA's exhibit
space is 80 cluttered up that nothing can
be made out OF it. Ceylon, Norway,
Cape of Good Hope and Sweden have
tiny spots they call their own filled with
curious and cheap-looking articles. The
exhibit of France shows that it was
made principally by the business firms
OF that country as an advertisement.
There is case containing two dozen
dolls costumed by the leading con-
turieres OF Paris, to show the change in
woman's dress through the centuries,
come millinery, fancy underclothing,
porcelains, artificial flowers, the usual
embroidery and laces and an ANTIQUE
XVI. ivory statue some 8 inches high,
valued at $4,000. At one end there is q
reproduction OF French drawing room
with the wax figures in conventional
O'Clock tea attires. England has most
interesting corner lot, while Ireland has
some OF the work from Lady Aberdeen's
village.
Madam Kellogg shows two graceful
gowns cut by her tailor system. They
are empire in style and hang from the
shoulders in straight lines. and one won
ders where the tailor system comes in.
There is an extremely ugly opera cloak,
constructed laboriously from prairie
chicken feathers by a woman in Dakota.
In an entresol Colorado Indian woman
ls weaving blankets, while shree Irish |
women are making lace, carding wool
and working at loom.
On the second floor are the. sumptu-
,usly furnished board rooms, assembly
lsll (seating nearly 10000, the organiza-
ion room, the model kitchen, the hos
oitsl exhibit. the library or New York
tate room, the Cincinnati, Kentucky,
california and Japanese rooms. OF these
IND the others on that floor much could
1e said.
Two lectures and organ concerts are
,iven daily in Assembly hall by we'll
snown women, and Mrs. Roarer demon
'trates fine cooking and give talks on
he culinary art and the erratic WAYS of
9s s mBasal6ahhe BslaRfs Rd tRfs il te best and most
enslble festurs of the building. The
California room 10 somewhat of fraud,
IS the firm who finished it 40 bearti-
ully in polished and carved redwood
lad better have advertised their waree
n the forestry and not in the woman's
Oh coIrse it is very hand
ONE, rich and all that, aud the furni-
ure, piano and pictures very nice to
ook at, but unfortunately little OF it is
woman'e work. .4s
Two elevators, patented by a woman,
un to the roof garden, where there is o
ca room and an excellent cafe.
OF the meetings that the ladies have
)een holding in their building off and
IN nearly sll summer, perhaps little
quib that appeared in Chicago paper
,ot long ago will be adequate:
Maude-I don't see how men can bear
t to watch prize fight.
Eileu-Oh, don't know. I've seen a
lession OF the board of lady managers.
G. T.