The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-13
THE WORKS OF WOMEN,
FILINGS THAT sURPHrSE VISITORS
40 rHE EXPOSITION ArxrLAYrA.
voine Southern Beauties-Thirteen Attrac-
tive Msidsns FROM as Many statcs Head
edby the Daughter of the Conf~dsracy.


ttcrs. two hundred In number had naroI,
retired from the field before Tennessee,
took possession OF the Exposition. which
Il did on Saturday. A most interesting
programme had been prepared. including
= banquet; all the daintics for whicf
werc drought by special train from
Knoxville. large representation came
from Nashville. Memphis Knoxville ano
Chattanooga. The Tennessee womer
celebrated the day during the Revolu.
ton. upon which the "clsns" marched &c
Kings mountain. Mrs. j. Harvey
;dathes. State Regent OF the Daughters
OF the American Revolution, presided
ana among other papers one was read
oy Miss Mary Desha, OF Washington. ID
<. on The Tennessee Woman's Heritage
OF Patriotism"
Judging from the comprehensive pro-
Eramme OF the Wonen's Congresses ev-
cry woman In America who thinks she
mas something 10 say. necessary TO the
well-beine OF the world, has been given
leave 10 come to Atlanta and say IT.
Almost every woman OF prominence In
every field OF womans work viii be
heard In the charming little auditorium
OF the Womar's Building. Women re-
presenting art. science. literature. house
hold economics all the professions and
Industries. will delight and instruct daily
audiences, and one Of the best features
OF Mrs. Gordon's Congresses Is, that
social entertainments will be given right
along. so that visitors may have the
opportunity of meeting the celebrities.
II the list does include some women
cranks, II has enough that are OF the
best talents to more than make up for
them. Every woman one meets is 10
read a paper. and the query arises, who
IL TO be the audience? The solution Will
have to be, "You come and hear me.
and I'll come and hear you"
Tuesday. october 5. is devoted by the
Congress 10 Days OF Foreign Travel
by Women" Miss lMargherita Ariina
Hamm, who has won distinction as a
traveller as well as a Journalist, has
been invited to preside at this meeting
Miss Hamm is a member OF the Royal
Geographical Society, and is said TO have
drawn the charts used in the recent
war between China and Japan. She has
moreover been the guest of Ii Hung
Chang. and has gazed upon the face OF
the DowaGer IMPRESS. She will read
her Japanese ode, which was composed
for and read 70 the Empress OF Japan.
Mrs. May French Sheldon the white
Queen" will talk of her African expe-
riences. and exhibit her collection or
curiosities. There ought to be a new
word invented 10 describe objects or
archaeological chronological and histor-
70 value. ''Curiosities" has a trivial
kound, suggesting the birds nests, nor
nets nests. etc, that ornaments the
room of boys and girls. in their teens.
and "relics" has such a gloomy. funeral
effect.
SOME UNIQUE FEATURES.
A paper written ty Miss Amelia Il.
Edwards will be read at this Congress,
and Mrs Cora Stewart Wheeler, noted
Boston lecturer, will discourse on FOLK
Lore" The Mexican Village oners
specia! attraction for the present week.
Provided a bride and groom can be
found, there will DO a wedding, Followed
suppose. by free trip around the
grounds on the pretty little "burros,'
that stand so patiently at the village
gate No mention has yet been made as
10 the settlements" but no doubt the
young couple will be handsomely set up
in housekeeping by the Exposition Com
pany. This reminds me or a similar
event q few years ago. at one of the old
time VJedmont ESpositions. which it'
may be remembered were founded and
happy occasion there were two brides
and ,grooms. According TO agreement
they were TO be dressed in cotton bag
ging, and TO receive 500 each. Can i'm
mense sum TO a Georgia "cracker.")
The cotton bagging gowns were made
by the smartest dressmaker in Atlanta,
and were trimmed with handsome lace
and MORE ribbon. until they were truly
exquisite creations. worthy OF Doucet.
An enterprising shopkeeper offered the
happy couples $500 If they would Sit for
an hour in his show window. This they
were obliging enough TO DO. and then
betook themselves to tho tackwoods with
enough money IN their cotton baggtng
pockets to stock a Georgia farm. l must |
not omit the NEST interesting incident |
Of this affair. which is. that Mr.. Grady |
kissed the brides.
A clever Western woman, who mas |
IDEAS. has made the exhibit Of THE Live
Oak Distillery Company" OF Cincinnati,
more attractive than any other In the |
Agricultural Building. Mss Mary e.
Trivitt Is a professional decorator. ana |
her work in Atlanta has so widened her
fame that she has had several offers TO
70 TO Mexico AMI arrange exhibits for
its coming EXPOSITION. The superficial
observer would not be able to tell OF
what material the Live Oak booth Is
made: 1t is a happy combination of irri-
descent and mellow am3er glass. painted
panels. and a curously inlaid floor, UNI
ike anything ever seen before. The
caves OF the roof are outlined In heavy
yreaths OF golden and red corr. the
selling and walls are built OF the bot
oms OF whskey bottles, green, yellow
Ind amber. The floor, a triumph OF art.
5 inlaid with barrel buags. and every
place where there is a panel of wood,
his cunning artist has covered 1t with
Ter own designs, in oil; roses. sunfiow-
RS. apple blossoms, everything that is
beautiful. Experience in exposition work
plainly shows that without woman's
sste, deftness and originality. the great
bows OF the world would be far less
attractive and artistic in detail than
they are. And yet. lit is said. that
women can not originate.
LIVING CALENDAR.
The beauty OF Southern women mas
ong been conceded fact and one on
rhich the South justly prides itself. In
ecoenition OF this a new departure In !
he way OF calendar has been made
,hich may perhaps suggest a new meth
a OF making money for some OF our
Northern charitable Institutions. This
alendar IL one of tho most prominent |
RI features In the Woman's Building |
nd the booth where 1t is sold Is always
rowded Twelve beautiful Southern
iris from twelve Southern States repre-
emit the twelve months OF the year