The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-04
Fair As Seen By a Woman Eyes
Babies Embroidery Educational Exhibit Pictures and Other Things
Are There Attract Feminine Visitors.

1t was baby day" at the state far
yesterday. OF course, there may be
other days for exhibiting babies-there
will doubtless be many of them-but it
is doubtful if there will ever be more
babies on exhibition at once than there
were yesterday Babies singly and in
pairs, and in many pairs, were the
order. Mothers with SIX small folk at
their heels jOstled against mothers
with one tiny bit of humanity. IN
deed, for a time it looked as if the
whole show was to be a baby show.
Mind what you're dom, Susie. To
let that Johnnie get among them peaTsi
Don't you know that pears viii kill
him?" "See the pretties, Honey
Don't go near that or the man'H get
you" Don't you techi' These and
other countless admonitions were the
strings with which one woman kept
her little band intact. plotting them
from the fruit stands TO the pictures,
from these to see "the horsies," thence
TO the moo cows" and again to view
the favOrite hens, and finally finding
their way to the Midway to hear the
spielers cry their wares. Here could
be found the only Wonderland of the
West" where, according to the an
nouncement of the man outside, you
can get more fun in ten minutes than
you have ever saw before" With all
the little ones hanging at her skirts,
she ventured in but the look on her
face as she emerged showed that even
she had seen more fun than the show
could provide.
"Oh. pa" said an elderly woman,
who looked as if she had come some
distance, ''come to see them lovely pic
lures"
I'D a heap ruther see them there
Tutta beggars." responded the I'M
aesthetic pa"
But that there are things sufficient
and of a varied enough>nature to suit
both aesthetic and utilitarian tastes is
everywhere evident Ma Wanders to
her hearts content among the lovely
things which delight her eye. and pa"
gazes at and "hefts" the ''rutta beg
gars" with. the eye and the hand of a
cOnnOiseur.
A young man In a brand-new uni
form directs the old couple to the place
where the manufactured wares are to
be found. and they walk away, awed
by the magniicence of his array. A
semi-miitary air comes over him as he
tries 10 make the people think he has
heen in the ranks for these many
days.
Embroidery Work to Be Seen.
The new building is a scene of Won
dcrland not comparable TO that TO be
found on the Midway. It's upper floor
is taken up almost entirely with wor
of an educational nature. although
some of the fine laces and embrOideries
are done by hands which long ago
learned to hold the needle or tie knot
i'm the thread. There is food for re-
Election in the legend written on one
piece of exquisite lace work. two tie
ends-''Done by lady who is in her
seventy-ninth year''-clOse beside a
handbag Made by a girl of -" EN-
broidery that one would have thought
long since forgotten lies side by side
with the newest ideas in the science
whichc. as physicians maintain, has
brought on the new disease to be called
"embroideryitis."
dresses, carefully-and il would seem
wisely-placed under lock and key.
Little dainty flannel Jackets. fashioned
by skillful fingers and lacking only the
little one to make them complete are
here. and sheerest lace caps for the
daily airing. These things the average
Nbnan can see IN all their beauty.
Bot ia a nearby case, guarded with
equal care. art sofa pillows of the kind