Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-14
WOMEN AT ATLANTA.
WHAT THEY EXPECT TO DO AT THR
 COMING FAIR.

All Previous Exhibitions of Feminine wsxk to Be Eclipsed-somc of Those Who
 Some Of tho Exhibitions.
 If the women of America take as much interest in their own progress as the men do in theirs the city of Atlanta is going to zee this fall a gathering of them so great that 1t will astonish the country. The women managers of the Cotton States and International exposi- tion concluded more than year ago that they would have the finest exhibit tion of women $ work that the world has ever known, and it looks now as if they would succeed ill this grand re- solve There is not field of feminine endeavor but that has been looked aft CT by the tireless committees of the board, and will consequently be repre- sented in first class style.
 The board of women managers of the Atlanta fair. propose to clearly demon strate the fact that the American wom- an in the past 50 years has done more for progress and civilization than two- thirds of the population of the globe We had a faint glimpse of this truth at Chicago two years ago; we then found that our modest fellow countrywomen had gotten ahead ill astronomy and geol- ogy, in Egyptology and Greek antiqui- ties, i'll art and architecture, in music and literature, as we'll as in humber endeavors, but the story was then only partially told. The women of Atlanta have taken the hint, and where Chicago filled a page they intend to fill vol ume.
 It is impossible to bestow the credit of this magnificent undertaking upon any particular one of the fl superb types of southern womanhood, who for IS months, day and night, have lent every energy to make their department a world renowned success. There is credit due to Mrs Joseph Thompson, the beautiful and accomplished chairman of the board; to Mrs. Maud Andrews Ohl, poet, litterateur and scholar; to Mrs. Porter King, the elegant and erudite i; to Mrs. A B. Steele, keen, true and perfect as the metal of her name; to Mrs. Loulie M. Gordon, writer, thinker and savant; to Mrs. Henry Wilson, the charming and lovable. to whom agri- culture, horticulture and Horticulture are as familiar as tho A B c is to ordinary folks; to Mrs. B. H. Wrenn, true spec imen of the ideal southern woman, bril- liant and intelleetual; to Mrs. Clark Howell, the worthy wife of the famous Atlanta editor; to Mrs. William M Dickson, comedy, critical, thoughtful and broad minded; to Mrs. Grant Will kins, who suggests a Greek statue in re- pose and the very spirit of American energy in action; to Mrs. Albert Thorn ton, graceful gracious and talented, and to Mrs. William Hemphill able, inde- fatigable and attractive. Imagine these enthusiastic and capable women, re-en- forced by hundreds of volunteers ill their own state, by 200 representatives else where in America, ill Canada and abroad, and you have an army which might move the world.
 Like all great armies, it is superbly organized and does its work smoothly, silently and effectively. It is impossible to describe here all that they have &C., complishd.
 There is to be an interesting exhibit from Great Britain, where much inter est is manifested in the Atlanta World s fair, and which will send large num- Der of leading women as visitors across the ocean next month. Lady Henry Som erset has promised to attend, and among others who are expected the Countess of Carlisle, the Duchess of Bedford, Hon. Mrs. Hereford Russell, Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Mrs. Hannah Whi- tall Smith are numbered. The English end of the fair will be mainly in charge of Mrs. Anne Morton Lane, brilliant American literary woman who has been long domiciled i'll London. She is we'll known to the American reading public, out is better known ill the British capi- tai, where she is looked up to as one of the coming writers of the land. Mrs. Lane's plan is 8 very comprehensive one, and consists in interesting British manufacturers so that they will send over exhibits, especially those which will be characteristic of the United States and in attracting general atten- tion to the exposition in the literary and fashionable circles of London. No one is better qualified for this pur- pose than Mrs Lane, whose drawing rooms in Covent Garden are often filled with leading literary, musical, dramatic and political people of the British capi- tai She has probably one of the largest visiting circles of any one there.
 It is possible that there will be Q handsome exhibit from very extraor- dinary English woman, Miss Charlotte Robinson of Manchester She was left upon her own resources when mere girl some years ago. She had already received honorable mention in her stud ies for her tasteful work, and deter mined to devote herself to domestic art, | I