The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-04

Every Department Shows Care in the Selection
of It's Exhibits
Fine Weather and Good Attendance Mark the
Opening Day Of the Event--What
Can Be Seen.

Minnesota's forty-first great annual
harvest home was yesterday most sue
cessfully inaugurated In the big white
buildings that are clustered in the state
fair grounds has been housed a bounti-
full crop, the product of all that the sons
and daughters of the North Star state
have ccomplished along agricultural,
manufacturing, domestic, educational and
artistic lines during the past year. All
this week the state beckons those who
would Earn Of her diligence to come and
and see A gracious september day
smiled benignantly on the exposition yes
terday as though it approved the work
there and found the efforts good From
nine o'clock, when the state fair was
officially opened, until late last night
crowd # people-and ,r unusually large
crowd for the first day of the exposi-
tion-pushed its way through the turn
stiles and poured itself into the various
buildings, adniring everything and mar
yelling at many thing There was little
or nc confusion attendant upon the open
ing. Indeed, so smoothly did everything
run yesterday that it appeared more lie
result of the waving of a fairy wand
than the skillful planning of human
beings. The best ever" seemed to be
the concensus of opinion of those who
wandered over the grounds and through
the buildings yesterday and certainly a
Minnesota state fair has never opened
under more favorable auspices than does
the state fair of 1900
DISPLAY OF FRUITS.
of Proo
floats about the great agricultural
building where is to be seen
every fruit and vegetable that the
state raises. Most temptingly are tn Sc
arranged and the display warrants the
belief that if Minnesota, by any chance,
was forced to subsist on what she herself
could I Use she would still be able to
live in luxury. The agricultural building
resembles a great horn of plenty horn
heaped to overfewing with fruits, grains,
vegetables and grasses. There are nine
Individual farm exhibits and the fourteen
counties have each furnished q good sized
quota of the things displayed. At nine
o'clock this morning Prof. James Atkin-
son, Of the Iowa agricultural college at
Anaes, will begin the Judging in this de-
partment.
The horticultural building is an i'm
mense bower of exquisite Vines, ferns and
all sorts of feathery plants. The great
fountain in the center splashes musically
and the fragrance of plants and flowers
makes the building a delightful one to
wander in showing as it does a specimen
of almost every plant that grows in the
state. 1t seems the embodiment Of Mimi
esota summer
WOMAN'S BUILDING.
There are pessimists who believe that
the housewifely tastes of their grand
! mothers have not been handed down to
the present generation of women Such a
pessimist should visit the Minnesota
state fair and the weman's building No
| grandmother could take neater or finer
stitches than those to be seen on the
| various dainty bits of fancy work housed
! in this building There is cobwebby lace
] that would make the daintiest possible
| trimming for white neck or plump wrists
| There is cCarser but just as exquisitely
| fashioned lace that would emphasize the
beauty of the most finely polished wood.
| There are sofa cushions galore. Many of
| these show original designs as do also the
| lace articles, which proves that the Mimi
| esota woman of 1900 is not a mere copy
I ist of the intricate but a designer as we'll.
| Then there is, off in a space by itself
fine display of decorated china, dainty
| little white and gold after dinner coffees
and fragile cups adorned with sprays of
| flowers whose arrangement invariably
reveal excellent taste. The old time quilt
| has not entirely disappeared but it is not
SO much in evidence in the women's
building as it has been in years back.
! Perhaps the most attractive display in
the whole building Is that in the cook
ing line.
Many of the good things to eat that are
on exhibition here are the work Of young
girls under fifteen years Of age, or under
eighteen. There is light, delicious looking
| bread to be seen, and cookies and cakes
of all kinds from the aesthetic locking
angels food to the simple but equally de-
hcious sugar cooky.
FEDERATED CLUBS HEADQUAR-
TIERS.
AS enc passes out of the woman's build
ing the path leads naturally up to the
Federation of Woman's Clubs headquar-
ters, and here, perhaps, a more aesthetic