The age-herald., 1901-10-06
Work of Georgia Women.

The interest that the women of Georgia are taking in the Agricultural exhibit at the approaching fair in that sate will serve as an incentive to the women of other states and while Alabama may abandon the holding of fair this au- tumn, the women of the state who are interested in its progress know that much of the success of the fairs in the past has been due to the splendid work of Alabama women. It may be that at the next fair held in Alabama, the women of the state, like those of Georgia, will make industrial exhibits that will be judged according to their merit. no distinction being made between their exhibits and those made by the men asong the same lines.
 At the forthcoming Georgia fair, number of prominent women will enter industrial exhibits in the agricultural de- pertinent, and the press of that state in commenting upon this step on the part of Georgia women, considers it as one of the encouraging evidences of progress In a recent issue the Atlanta Constitution refers as follows to the possibilities of branch of industry which could be de-
 
 as in other states.
 "The exhibits include specimens oI do- mestic art in preserves, jellies, pickles and canned goods, a branch of industry that opens up the broadest opportunity for Georgia women. When the richness of the state in all those products Is con- sidered. and the spirit of the people of the state to patronize home industry so evident, 1t justifies the question; why should there ever be offered on a Georgia table, fruit preserved or canneu In any other state? Why should any condiment of that kind be imported, and why should not the women of the state awaken more generally to the possibility of this indus try as one that would mean prosperity to them and to the commonwealth.
 "If such an industry were developed and the wares or Georgia women brought up to the standpoint of those imported here, the merchant of the state would soon see the economic value of patronizing home industry.
 'The complaint Is frequently made by women that they canno, find market for their wares as the merchant with his often questionable importations can out sell them; but in this matter as Iii all others, merit wins. The woman who goes to work with a will and posts her self upon the latest m ethods of preserves. jellies, canned goods and the like, will find that at present a great premium is being placed upon the purity of such wares and that ready sale will be found for them.
 Since the meat scandal of the Spanish American war a more rigid investigation Is being made of all canned goods and the proof given that poisonous chemicals were used as preservatives and that all sorts of adulterations were being im- posed by so-called reliable dealers, has 1D1t tA -A-slI t.... people of the canned goods that they eat"
 Among the Georgia women who will make an industrial exhibit at the fair, will be Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson, one of the most prominent club women in the South. and Alabama women who met her at the meeting of the Federation in Mon tevallo last spring will read with interest the following reference to her collection, which is the largest industrial one to be made in the agritutural department:
 There is an erroneous impression among the many that the woman who may be distinctly intellectual, and inter- ested In public matters, or who may have Tn any way escaped from strict identity With the fireside. is more of a theorist in the matter of principal things than an actor in them. But this is an exploded theory in itself for one can scarcely find In the entire state n woman wore iden- tifed with public life than Mrs. J. Lind say Johnson of Rome. Ga, who makes the largest individual collection in the agricultural department. Mrs. Johnson Is president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. and Is in the very center Of women who are accused of living, moving and having their being in theo- ries. yet Mrs. Johnson has given an ex- cellent object lesson in applying the very latest theories in agricultural lines, and 1t is remarkable fact that the women farm s in all parts of the country are ever ready to attribute much of their success to the applying of theories they hear discussed at their cubs.
 Mrs. Johnsons public life seems In no way to have deprived her of time fo, and interest in domVtic affairs for she has given her personal surveillance to the naturalization of every product rep