The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27
THE UTAH
STATE FAIR
Lessons Taught Which May Help
Us at our Next Fair.

under the auspices Of the State Univer-
sity showed how they give lessons in
cooking. They had a class of little girls
each of whom had a small table with
drawers containing Kitchen utensils, and
a cabinet containing the materials to be
used:in cooking. Each little tot wore q
white apron and sleeve protectors, and
the instructor told the class what ma
teriai to take and how much, when and
how to mix how to season, when to bake
OF stew &C., and how to arrange the
tables. They prepared meals and spread
little banquets, but just what use or
disposition was made of them our in
formant forgot to tell us. The point to
be learned from the exercises was to
show how very easily and how happily
children may be taught the art of cook
ing and be made better cooks than their
mothers are at corresponding ages.
The school for deaf, dumb and blind
children had an exhibit that attracted
much attention. The work of teaching
and communicating was carried on for
the benefit of visitors, and the mutes
played many original capers to demon
strate the reliability of their means Of
communication, and their aptness at
using it. One very bright mute who at
tracted attention was Jane Mcclellan
whose home is at Dempsey Idaho. Just
ca st Of McCammon.Y
Some of the features of the bee indus
try as conducted by modern methods
was illustrated by having bees in a glass
hive enclosed with a screen, where all
their work could be watched. Labor
saving devices to enable the bees to do
many times more work in their lifetime
than their ancestors did, were exhibited
so that the visitors might know as much
about them as the bees do.
A hive of honey made of jelly glasses
filled with crate honey, stood in an oval
ten feet high, and was a marvel of sweet
Eess.
In the dairy exhibit a small separator
was run by billy goat" on a treadmill.
People were taught some of the prac-
tical and hygenic advantages of having
cream separated from the milk by the
machine, as compared with the old
method of letting it rise. A large sepa-
rator was run by electricity, as was a lot
of other creamery apparatus.
The ice man joined with the dairy
man in making and maintaining a milk
maid in life sixe, made of butter, who
stood throughout the fair without melt
ing down or changing complexion. No
ice was visible, but she kept ''cool and
collected"
knitting machines driven by electric
power. were operated to make under
wear for people while they waited.
Orders were taken, measurements made,
and the finished garments made and
handed to the customers. Those want
ing their initials woven into the gar
ments in colors differing from the body
of the garment could get them by order.
ing.
A glove factory had operators making
kid gloves for people while they waited.
The Salt Lake Trunk company had a
trunk on exhibit which was large enough
to serve for a settlers cabin Of two
rooms, and operators were busy making
smaller trunks and valises for people
who ordered and waited. Only a few
minutes waiting we're required to get
the trunk or valise.
Hewitt Bros. had a Ferris Wheel full
Of packages of spices, coffee and Baking
The Manual Training School had a
class modelling in clay in the forenoon
and burning the product in the after
noon, in the kiln. They had embroidery,
Iaces &c. by the girls which was not
very good. and indicated careless work.
The boys had a little house which they
had designed, made, finished %andpainted
and also furnished with articles of their
own make. This showed great care and
skill, and was the subject of admiration
throughout the fair.
The exhibit of the Bear River Irriga-
ton company was a reproduction of the
Bear River Canyon and the Bear River {
Canal with the dam, headgate, waste
rates. tunnels. cuts, the railroad, the '
telephone apd telegraph lines, the s
yatchman, Che power plant, the trees
ind sage brush on the mountains, the
ields and orchards under the canal, and O
lext to it, the products of those fields c
md orchards arranged in fine display.
who we're familiar with the real
stood s~pellbound before the re- t
and those who had not seen S
t wanted to see the original. Every
lour, visitors halted before the model to