Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-11
WO3LEN AT ATLANTA.
WHAT THEY EXPECT TO DO AT THE
 COMING FAIR.

to Be Eelipsed some of Those Who
 Have Laborcd Most Enthusiastically.
 Some of the Exhibitions.
 If the women Of America take as much interest in their own progress as the mon do i'll theirs the city of Atlanta is going to see this fall a gathering of them so great that it 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 exhibi- tion of women's work that the world has ever known, and it looks now as if they would succeed in this grand re- solve Thero 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
 Tho board of women managers of tho Atlanta fair propose to clearly demen- strate the fact that the American wom- an i'll tho past 90 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 i'll astronomy and geol- ogy, i'll Egyptology and Greek antiqui- ties, in ant 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 q page they intend to fill vol ume.
 It is impossible to bestow the credit of this magnifieent undertaking upon any particular one of the Al superb types of southern wonanhood, who for IS months, day and night, have lent every energy to mako their department a world renowned success. There is credit due to Mrs. Joseph Thompson. the beautiful and accomplished chairman of the board to 14rs Maud Andrews Oh1, poet, litterateur and scholar; to Mrs Porter King, the elegant and erudite; to Mrs. A. B. Steele, keen, true and perfect as tho metal of her name; to Mrs Louie M. Gordon, writer, thinker and savant; to Mrs. Henry Wilson, the charming and loyable, to whom agri- culture, horticulture and horticulture are as familiar as the A B c is to ordinary folks; to Mrs. B. H. 8rehn, q true spec imen of the ideal southern woman, bril- liant and intellectaal; to Mrs. Clark Howell, the worthy wife of the famous Atlanta editor; to Mrs William M. Dickson, comedy, critical, thoughtful and bread minded; to Mrs. Grant Will kins, who suggests Greek statue i'll re- pose and tho very spirit of American energy ill 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, fe-en- forced by hundreds of volunteers iii their own state, by 900 representatives else where in America, in 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. Itis impossible to describe here all that they have ac- complishd.
 There is to be an interesting exhibit from Great Britain, where much inter est is manifested in the Atlanta Worlds fair, and which will send Q large num- ber 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 BurGett=Goutts 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 in London She IS well known to the American reading public, but is better known in the British capi- tai, where she is looked up to as ono of the coming writers of the land. Mrs. Lanes plan is a 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 i'll the literary and faShlOnalDe ellcleS or llOnGOn
 Nc one is better qualified for this pur- pose than Mrs. Lane, whose drawing rooms i'll Covent Garden arc 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 npon her own resources when . mere girl some years ago. She had already received honorable mention i'll her stud ies for her tasteful work, and deter mined to devote herself to domestic art, including household decoration, carved furniture and the like. She carried off
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