Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05

more worthy Of consideration than the marvel
Gus hand made laces and embroderies of the
Kansas women.
Opening from the reception hall are the Of
fees of the commission, the gentlemens smok-
ing loom, the rest and reception rooms for the
ladies', the check room and pestof1ice, the emer-
gency hospital and the day nursery. This last
feature is a most valuable one. There is an at
tendant in charge of the little ones, and the
building was constructed with one broad ver-
anda entirely walled in SO that the children
could neither fall OFT moi run away while the
mothers were out enjoying the greatest expo
sition.
The display in the palace of mines and met.
allurgy is almost as much of revelation to the
visitors from Kansas as to those from other
parts of the. country. Few kansans have any
adequate conception of the mineral resources of
their state. They know about the coal and
crude oil, and they have some notion of the salt,
evaporated by the suns heat, and also of the
enormous rock salt production, but they do not
realize the value of the Portland cement and
gypsum industry. No native of the great state
of Kansas should fail to look up the mineral
exhibit.
Of equal interest is the Kansas display in the
palace of education. Here the exhibition of
pupils work is truly remarkable The length
to which manual training and art have been
carried is astonishing. There are many fine ex-
amples of carved and turned wood, and the re-
lief map showing the plan of campaign in sew
erdl OF the most important battles of the Civil
war, map that was modelled and colored by the
pupils of the summer school, is a wonderful
piece of work.
In the palace of horticulture there is a splen-
did display, on tables, OF fresh fruit, that is
changed as the new crops come on and all the
vegetable resources of the state are shown in
preservative fluid in glass jars. The most ex-
tensive exhibit is that in the palace of agricul-
ture. There is the relief picture worked out in
butter, showing the old and the new methods
of handling dairy products, and there is the
grain pavilion, marvel of art and ingenuity.
Perched above the columns that flank the maiu
entrance are two very life-ike eagles, the one
made of corn husks the other OF straw. In the
center of the pavilion, on lofty pedestal that
is decorated with grains and grasses is the
Kansas steer, not fed with, but actually made Of
Kansas corn He may look tri1e large to
some of us, but they really do grow that kind
of cattle in Kansas.
Another stalking object is the globe, made
of grain, coored to show the land and water
areas of the earth. Above this is a gaeat corn
ucopia, with electric motor attachment, upheld
by Cupid made of grits From the horn-of-
plenty perpetual stream of wheat flows down
over the globe to signify that Kansas could furn-
sh wheat to the whole world. 1t is scarcely
necessary to mention the majestic Indian, made
entirely of corn products, for one who pass
es the booth could fail to observe him, he is so
tall and life-like.
The display OF natural and other resources in
the various sections of the Exposition gives the
world plainly to understand that Kansas has
survlded her years of hardship and has come TO
be- one of the most important and productive
states in the Union.