The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
WOMEN PART IN
BIC EXPOSITION.
Tile Soutll's Fair Daughters to
Contribute i'll Great Measure
to Its Success.
! ROMANCE IN HISTORY
But for the Part Of a Woman Our
History Would Not Have
Been Made.

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NORFOLK, VA. February 23.--Whcn !
the chief or the press bureau OF |
the Jamestown Exposition singled out |
d, man member Of his staff to write gone
thing about the part women will play |
in the exposition, he'scriorsly endanger- |
ed an od-t,ne friendship with that same !
staff member fG !
1t seemed easy enough to get the |
material covering her presumably srant |
participation in this great enterprise. but
tie question was how to get sufficient |
10 exc out q observation-disclosures article
for n magazine, and then, also. 1t meant
tile confronting Of the creature In her
own preserve, Il dif!iciii. task FOR q bash
ful person. a happy thought, suggested
that pictures be used u advantage. rs
they would help Wonderfully in nlling
out tho allotted grace, Then there were
Danes and Daughters, doubtless, who
would have their day Mt tho exposition.
and, too, If wns certain that women had
found something in Pliicll TO interest
themselves IN connection with tho his
torical loan exhibit Certain II was that
an army of women. young. pretty and
generally attractive. are IN evidence about
the eapositon Observation-Disclosures,
typcwritcrs. stenogranhers and In secre-
tarial capacity, others addressing en-
vclopes and putting therein all manner
of circulars, correspondence and news
articles forathe press of the entire cum
try and Canndn. but this wouli be shop
talk, and not of tho kind sought
Mere man pondered. yninly cropped
through the cobwebs of his alleged gray,
matter for ideas as to what woman
could do in such things, and confessed
himself phased To put himself in wo-
mans attitude and see the possibilities as
she might see them was as much beyond
his ken, rs to understand the sex itself.
lie sought out woman.
Inspiration and Revelation.
Three bundled years aga. through,
the interpretation of q woman, an In
dian maid, England 2ained her firss
continent A picture of the wild Vir-
ginia fastncss shows Pocahnntas. the
good fairy of the early settlers, her
wand. heart Of peculiar tenderness,
strange nthe daughter of the trucu-
lent Powhutan. but botent against the
savagery OF the hostile red man.
Love played It's part as 1t has in so
many portrntous events IN human his
tory. but II ere may be said that the
love Of 'chilac of twelve or thirteen
English captain, John Smith. was the
love of Il Child Of twelve or thirtn en-
described her. He adds. .Shc nnxt UNI
der God. was the instrument to pre-
serve this colone from death. famine
and utter confusion. which II ir
those times had once been dissolved
Virginia had laine az It was at oul
first ARRIVAL to this day"
That other love which gave tn,
"Angal o. the Woodland" to JOIN
Rolte. wife cementcd a friendship
between the Indian and the whit
man. II
And 20 1t appears that but fora woma
there would have been no Jamestow
Exposition. Yet one need not go bac
thus seeking credit Herewith to her SCI
for the idea OF q tercentenary celebratio
originated with wonsi. and her initia
tive. push and spirit gave 1t the impetu
that has carried It into the realm {
magnificent proportions and information;
scope.
But still for the tangible facts an
actual donGs! Some lady doubles
would know. Several were seen. III
scribe found hi's horizon broadening. tt
prospect was growing like a BIT of coli
that hernlds the flaming hosts of Il
Wrestling sky-king; growing TIL It threa
ems to overwhelm the drinking eye
with It's gorgeous abundance.
Would It not he easier to write OF tho
things in which women would have
part?
1t was women, women everywher