St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-21
WOMAN OF TODAY
SOMETHING ABOUT HER WORK
FOR THE ATLANTA EXPO
SITION.
THE WOMAN'S BUILDING.
COOKING SCHOOLS AND LIBRA
RIES, NEEDLE WORK AND
CONGRESSES.
IN THE CINCINNATI ROOM.
Fine Specimens of Wood Carving
and China Decorating From
the Paris of America.
THE WOMAN'S BUILDING.
IN THE CINCINNATI ROOM.

At the Columbian eXpoSl1on III
1898 nothing gave the wocld greater
astonishment than the enthusiastic
and capable work done by the wom-
en- of the land for the fair. 1t was
most natural, then, that one of the
first steps of the mana cement of the
Cotton States and International eX-
position should be THE selection of a
board of women managers-and, by
the way, you will note that they had
the good sense and the discriminate
ing taste to call it women man
agerS''-who went to work with
hearty good will to make the repre-
sentation of the products of woman
hands and brain to exceed any like
exhibition ever before made.
This exhibit, collected and arranged
by the woman's board, under the
presidency of Mrs. Joseph Thomp-
son, is displayed in the Woman's
building a beautiful structure de-
signed by Miss Elsie Mercur, a
young architect of Pittsburg. The
building is $50 feet long, 12S feet deep,
and to the top of the statue, which
surmounts the central dome, is a
distance of ninety feet. The style
of the building is colonial rena:s
sance, two stories besides a large
basement; the great roof can be util-
lied as a promenade.
Inside the building is an exhibit
embracing almost everything in
which woman of today is interested
from a cooking stove in operation to
a Browning club in session-or at
least some of the papers the Brown
ing club has produced There is
library for books, magazin-s, news
papers and other publications by
women; a music room for women'S
musical compositions; a scientific
room for their patents, inventions
and copyrights; halls for their work
in sewing, embroidery, drawn work,
wood carving, ceramics, china paint
ing, glass decoration, illuminating,
repousse work, clay modelling, brio
a-brac and art design. There is a
cooking school in which masters of
the culinary art lecture daily to the
public, conduct classes of those who
desire to learn and give information
to those who wish 1t. There is a
fine display Of kindergarten games,
toys, furniture and other parapher-
MALTA There is a grand showing of
paintings in Oil and water colors, Of
etch1ngS, crayon work, black and
white engraving, wood cutting, ar
chitectural design, engineering, land
scape gardening and sculpture.
There is a section for educational
exhibits of all sorts, and another sec
tion for technical art, such as the
making of book covers, Sloyd. prvo-
graphy, furniture designs, tile max
ing, panel painting, wall paper, hang
lngs, curtains, carpets, rugs, bamboo
and rattan furniture, upholstery.
chandeliers and electroliers and ia
bleWare.
To still further display the genius
of American women there are con-
certs in which the numbers of the
programme are to be musical COM
positions from their pens, rendered
by superior orchestras under women
leaders,solo performances by women,
both vocal and instrumental, and
chamber music by women instru-
mentaliStS
Most important of all are the
Women'S congresses. A committee
has made arrangements for these on
a basis somewhat similar to that of
the worlds congresses in Chicago.
The committee has also been very
careful in picking out for it's pro-
prammeS the women who can speak
as we'll as write, teach or achieve.
Every day there is congress upon
a series of subjects more or less
allied. Each subject is treated by
one or more women who have gained
eminence in its study or handling.
and where there are two sides to
any question, each side has a spokes-
man.
1t is in decorative art especially,
that one finds that branch of wom-
ems work that appeals to the sex
universally. No matter what NAV
be the degree of intellectual superior
ity, inventive genius, talents or ac-
complishments, every type of woman
will unite in admiration of the artis-
tic in laces, embroideries, needle
work and all that is decorative in
households, and gives to home the
essential finishing touches of a, wom-
ans hand. The upper and lower halls