The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-07-22
A FEATURE OF THE FAIR
The Woman With the Note Book
one Of the Sights at
Chicago
She IL Alert and Always on the
90 With But Little
Result.
The Male visitors At tho Big Exposition
aro Very Much In the Minority
Plenty Of Accommodations.

CHICAGO, u 0ly xJ.-NttOitIo& uhouku w
grounds Of the Worlds fair on any day OF
the week one would be inclined TO think
that two-shirds Of the people were news
Paper reporters. Such Al least would b
Tho imprs ssion one would gst judging from
tbs tirsless use Of pencil and book made by
hundreds and Thousands Of visitors. LIST
me give you . picture Of the typical note
book prank. She 10 lady Of little more
than medium height. spare. prominent
nose. bright eyes. hair eonbsd back over
her forehead and fastened In . cute little
knot Just under the rear Of her hat. She
wears . plain skirs With q polka dot waist.
. bar pin a the throat and no suspicion Of
powder on her face. Dangling At her side
il . satohsl. suspended from ths shoulder.
while under her arm on the other side 10 =
lunch box the size Of which would make .
Dakota harvest hand green with envy. Ia
one hand she carries . parasol AID With the
other clutches a formidable blue note book.
I say she. for there are four women taking
notes where thers 10 one man In fact there
are two women TO every man visiting The
fair; perhaps . greater proportion.
Lot us follow this knight" Of The note
book and for . few moments observe her
methods Of operation. She 10 strollinR
down The main aisle of the liberal arts
building turning her gold zimmsd spec
taoles first in one direction then. In an
other. Finally she catches sight of the
gait moves towards II. Az dYst she secs the
elegant display of silvorwsEe, gives ii q few
quick nervous glaAoss. reaches for her PEN
oil sticking in The little tuft Of hair close
up under hsH hat rim. but ere she has time
10 make an entry her quick eye catches
sieh hi Of eager persons closely packed around
! show case in the center of the booth. She
gives . second look. THAT must be IL.
That ID H." and with her gold trimmed
spectaolss fixed on the Rlittsring diamond
that spnYkles on the summit Of that pyrn-
mid Of gems, she makes q bee line for II
obl'yious Of everything else until . hidden
her attention only long enough for her to
observe that she has given the old gentls.
man q vigorous punch with the pointed end
Of her umbrella. She quickly, places the
offending article in a perpendicular posi-
tion ana with look which plainly says.
nov DOM bother me sgais'" hast,
that ease OF dazzling jewels.
For tho first time in her life she sees such q
beautiful collection Of rubies, pearls, en-
erals and diamonds in rings. bracelets.
breaches and nesklace4 She catches sight
Of shs great Tiffany diamond a. the top Of
this collection, notes on the attached card
ing, "Oh, how sweet. and it isn't larger
thar a ~psanutv' Its wonderful beauty and
fabulous value inspire her, she Qrasps her
pencil, brings tho umbrella and note book
into position and begins to write. The
crowd jostlas her but she does not mind it.
A ~, 90 -r,o okAol nm hoH tnAus nhn
makes a terrible face, but is too deeply at
sorbed TO cry out. Her lunch box has as
sumsd q thinness flom the pressing Of the
crowd that makes 1t rival q restaurant pan
cake; she hseds II not. Another glance at
tho jewe!-ten or twenty more lines Of the
unintelligible sc,nvl. By this time she has
been fo1c.d BY the moving crowd beyond
the case. She disentanQles herself from
her perspiring n%sighbors. mops the mois-
sure from her face and takes az inventory
Of her possessions. She finds them all.
but looks twice before she recognizes tho
diIapidated lunch box. 20. WE'LL" she says,
'ths grinding The ssndviehss have had will
this philosophical remark she turns her
gold trimmed spsetaolesa and umbrella in an
other direction and mevss off to make a
similar attack 1pon the Partisan display of
dress goods . few steps further on.
Have We evsrdrawn the picture? Not In
The least. And yet II We had IL would b In
keeping With the ~surrosndings.
Everything 10 ovsrdrsvn il Chicago and
the Worlds fair city, even the bank ao-
counts of thousands Of Worlds fair visitors,
as we'll % that Of the p,opEiotors Of the
humorous Worlds fair hotels. whose front
windows are still Allied with plaza: ds,
Rooms TO let"
Tbs use of the note book. while Il gives
n the appearance Of being deeply inter
sstsd In the various exhibits, 10 after all a
practice Of questionable value. Com
parAtiyely few persons will re-
turn TO their homes and mako
. careful study Of their notes. Then, too,
the thought that they have notes on any
particular exhibit tend to make them rely
less On their nsmo1y.
Note books are valuable for preserving
statistios but . failure whom used - Q catch
all for general information.