The Progress., 1893-06-03

that way. Why in the world shouldn't
papa take care of the baby while wife has
look through the one building of the eN-
position that is Of special interest to her as
mother and woman? Doubtless she minds
the baby in all the other buildings, as she
minds him in nearly all the other places
and hours of life. / have baby or two
myself, and If it shall he help to their
mother no false pride will keep me from
taking care of them while she enjoys the
Woman's building and other destinations
of the fair.
There are so many things of interest
here one scarcely knows which way to
turn. Here is Welsh girl weaving cloth
in the good old way, and Scotch woman
with the ancient spinning wheel and ball
of yarn. A model of a toboggan slide, an
instrument to facilitate the analysis of
oils, n system of storage reservoirs for irri-
cation, model and drawings of n building
for cooperative living, working designs
for carpets, wall paper and textiles, archi-
tectural drawings and designs, all the
work of women, rouse more than mere
passing interest. In watch case ornamen-
tation, stamped leather, furniture, ceiling
and wall decorations, lithography and
wood engraving woman shows that she is
able to keep up with the procession. From
Mercer county, Penn, comes an inlaid
table containing more than 1000 pieces of
native woods. 4 simple exhibit in which
women take much pride and comfort is a
COPY of the law Of 1879 admitting women
to practice in the United States supreme
court. 1t was sent here by Belya a. Lock
wood.
Intensely interesting is the Keppel col
lection of engravings and etchings in
which an effort has been made to show
what has been done by women engravers
during the last three centuries. The col
lection goes back as far rs the year 1881,
when Diana Ghisi, Mantua woman, en-
graved very good plates after Raphael,
Tuccari, and Romano. There is splendid
wood cut which came from the fair fingers
of Marie de Medicis, queen OF France. 1t
is the bust of u young woman. There are
samples Of the work of Teresa Del Po, who
nearly two hundred years ago was n mem
Der of the Academy of st. Luke at Rome,
and whose work was so near like that OF
her fathers, distinguished en-
graver, it was difficult to distinguish be-
tween them. The collection comprises
several hundred specimens, and is easily
worth n half days study. Until compare
lively recently a woman engraver was the
exception. The few women who have been
able to distinguish themselves in this field
since the birth of tho art, 800 years ago
did so through their own genius and in
dividuality rather than by favor Of any
recognition of the equality Of the sexes.
Even now they ask to be judged Oh merit
alone.
The British exhibit here Is always
thronged with visitors. It shows most
graphically woman's work in art, in edu-
cation, in the field of charity, in manufac-
turing and literature. Among the pictures
the queen appears several times. There
are six original sketches from nature, in
one frame; a view from the queens room
at Balmoral, n pug belonging to Prince
Henry of Battenberg, drawn by the queen
while travelling on the railway, and others
There are water colors by the queen and
some of her deputies. The show of British
needle work is excellent, and IN one sec
tion it Is made very plain that Yankee
women are not the only women in the
world who can invent machines and ap
pliances and have them patented. Pat
entcd inventions by British women com
! prise a collapsible coal scuttle, combined
! dress stand and fire escape, device to IA
cilitate pouring from bottles, invention fol
extracting gold from base metal and many
others.
The woman's building was happy con
ception and it has been successfully
wrought in ali its details. 1t is distinct
departure in expositions, but is is safe &c
say there never will be another interna
tional exposition without woman's dc
partment built and managed by women.
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