Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-11
i UNIQUE EXHIBITION.
Professional Woman's Leagues
Big Show In New York.
STREET AFTER STREET OF BOOTHS

Under an azure sky, ablaZe with row
upon row of electric lights, and to the
accompaniment of two women's bands,
the frou frou of women's skirts and the
laughter and murmur of Il great crowd
Of visitors the woman's exhibition in
New York opened its doors to the pub
lie the other night in Madison Square
Garden.
The women in long coats and tall
the women in blue, frowning under
their helmets, who ordered the traps
into line; the women ticket sellers and
the women ticket takers, as well as
the six feet and over Amazon police
men who laboriously patrolled their
beats within and without the Garden,
all had TO work hard to handle the
crowds that poured in from o'clock
all through the evening. says the New
York Tribune. The exhibition opened
with a boom. 1t has been a great I'M
dertaking for the Professional Woman's
league, which needed n clubhouse and
has taken this means to get it.
The show during the evening was as
brilliant in color and movement as any
combination in n kaleidoscope. The
center of the Garden is occupied with
| booths where dolls jostle hair and COM
| plexion specialties, groceries, dry
goods, canaries and nerve foods elbow
one another; where spare Shakers, in
black gowns of primIy plated stuff and
wonderful transparent net caps, take
orders for pure wool hand woven gar
ments and sell maple sugar and butter
nut sweets, and prominent authors dis
pose of their own works and write their
autographs ON the fly leaf while the
purchaser waits. There is street after
street of these booths-eighty-si in all
lin all the cOlors of the rainbow, and
with women, women, women, in every
one, selling, making change, smiling,
chatting-in short, performing the
eternal feminine act in all its changes.
All the evening q crowd stood about
the dollhouse, where actresses sold
dolls dressed by themselves in imita-
ton of parts they had taken on the
stage. y gold staff used by Miss Lii
liam Russell in The Little Duchess"
and a chair made from one of the
, eighteenth century pews out of the par
ish church at Stratford, both of which
articles are to be sold by lot, were also
attractions.
Around the ellipse which encircles the
booths runs the street of all nations.
The japanese booth is one of the
largest and handsomest. 1t represents
the exterior of teahouse. France is
represented by the interior of a mil
liners shop. where during the night
number of girls deity trimmed and ex-
hibited the newest modes.
America has two booths-one New
England kitchen. the other a southern
cotton field. \ bit of the sultan's pal
ace is shown in the Turkey booth; Ger
many displays the interior of a peas
ants cottage. where blond haired frau
leins in peasant garb sang and danced.
A beautiful exhibit was that of the
'First Americans" where Indian bas-
kerry, beadwork, pottery, blankets,
etc, were sold. Mrs. Dark Cloud and
her daughter. Bessie Bright Eyes, two
Iroquois Indians; White Fawn, an
Abenaki, and Ahr-tra -nee-da and Has
tin-nez, two Indians from the great
lakes, all in native dress. added to the
picturesqueness of this booth. In the
Scotland booth during the evening
linen laces were sold by three women
dressed as Edinburgh fishwives and
wearing the Charlie Stuart. the Black
Watch and the MacLean plaids. while
little girl performed ON the bagpipes
Ireland showed a lowly cot, with a
donkey contentedly nibbling hay in a
penlike stable.
The art exhibition occupies over 200
feet of the gallery and includes, be-
sides large collection of paintings by
women artists, large exhibits of minia-
lures. original designs for bookplates,
painted china, etc. 'The Flower Max
err by Harriet Campbell lFoss, is a
center of attraction. This was prize
winner at the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton. A chest. said to have been the
property of King James of England
and valued at 100000, is of interest
in this department.
Downstairs nearly all the space in
the great elIiptical corridor is given
over to q Venetian street, with cafes,
restaurants. a shooting gallery and va
Fious attractions. The. street of all
nations was a mass Of color the other
night. Flags, banners and bunting in
every conceivable shape, the emblems
of all countries and the emblems of
none. were. arranged most effectively;
banners and streamers fioated from ev-
cry available spot. In the Chinese vii
lage was a little group which attracted
much attention. two Chinese mothers
with their babies. of no distinguishable
sex-littie yellow mites with big dark
eyes.
Downstairs in the Venetian street |
King Carnival held full sway. Lovely |
women $50 said the press agenU |
thronged the streets and reclined in the
realistic gondolas. Showers of confetti
and paper flowers were as frequent as
rain showers during the last month.
Masks and dominos were the proper
costumes, although ordinary street |
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