Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
International Aspect Gives Great
Festival Enlarged influence.
MEN FROM MANY LANDS ATTEND
Governors Day Attractive, with
Woman for Its Chief Magnet.
RS. sHELDoN's FINE ADDRESS
ATTENpANoH.

ATTGRoANG1s
FIRST day As'eoo
Second day
Third day. .1o,21e
The success Of the National Corn expo
sition from every standpoint is now assured.
From the first the success of the educa-
tional and show features of the exposition
were certain and the liberal attendance Of
the first four days forecasts a great in
flux of visitors for the last week of the
show, and thus the financial success OF the
giant enterprise.
Men OF national and international repu-
tatlon have visited the exposition during the
last week and one and all have been UNI
stinted in their praise, Ambassadors from
foreign lands, members of P~arliaments.
governors of neighboring states, railroad
magnates from a distance, all have been
fulsome in praising the efforts of the man
agement in assembling the largest and best
exhibit OF corn and products ever shown in
the United States.
Saturday eclipsed all previous records in
the matter of adult attendance OF visitors,
and the hotels are now taxed to handle the
people who have come from afar. Fra
ternal Society and Governors day was
voted by all as a great success, and even
the ample room provided by the manage
ment for. lectures and drills was packed.
Now that the hurrah incident TO the OPEN
Ing is over the lecturers have gotten down
to business, and all over the show may be
seen groups of interested listeners. hearing
the gospel of intensive farming preached
by those schooled in the leading universities
and agricultural colleges OF the west. over
200 persons gathered in the booth OF the
Iowa exhibit at one time Saturday after
noon to learn the proper method Of corn
propagation, and this was but one OF the
many of such groups in the different sec
lions of the exposition.
Mrs. sheldon Makes the hit.
Governor Brooks of Wyoming and Gov
ernor Garst of Iowa made able speeches at
the National Corn exposition saturday
morning. but all the laurels of the day
were snatched from them by a woman.
Mrs. George l.. Sheldon, called on to speak
in place of her husband without previous
warning to her. made a five-minute address
which moved the big aud ence to tremen-
dous enthusiasm. and whom she had con-
cluded nobody cared a hang that pressure
of official business had kept the governor
OF Nebraska from attending.
Governor Sheldon did arrive In Omaha,
but too late for the exercises at the ex-
position.
IF the Country Life commission will de-
wise some means Of providing the farmers
wife with help she will take care of the
social calendar herself" declared Mrs. Shell
don. ut is no light proposition for a woman,
often of delicate health, by herself, TO care
for all that the management of the do
nestle end OF a farm involves, and to go
beyond this, to make a home artistic as
well as hygienic, is something rather erdu-
Gus. Personally. / enjoy farm life, but II
is difficult, you know, to get maids TO stay
on a farm. When one has TO send washing
five or six miles to get it done, or do 1t
ones self, and when many other problems
OF this sort arise you can understand that
the wife Of the farmer has little time to
plan social entertainments"
Mrs. sheldon Practical. ~n
Mrs. Sheldon maze a practical suggestion
along this line that laundries for farmers
be established, the foundation of which sns
said would relieve many women. willing
and able to pay for this work, OF a great
burden.
w hear much Of education as a means
by which the burden OF the farmer will be
lifted" she continued. IT might make one
suggestion along this line. Why not utilize
our Indian schools to educate immigrants
in an agricultural way, requiring that a
course OF study and work in these schools
be made a condition of entrance into the
United 9tates2 If this were done the great
labor problem which confronts the farmer,
OF course. as we'll as his wife. might be
solved to some extent at least. This sug-
gestion." added Mrs. Sheldon modestly, sis
original, even II 1t Is not practical"
Mrs. Sheldon, when she was called upon
to speak Dy former Governor Crounse. who
presided. was not seated on the stage, but
was In a chair in the front row OF the
exposition auditorium, She was in the
company Of Mrs. A. d. Brandeis. chairman
Of the entertainment committed for women
visitors; Mrs. Warren Garst, wife OF the
governor Of Iowa, and Mrs. ]. b. virgins
OF Lincoln, All four were handsomely
gowned. Mrs. Sheldon wearing a tailor
made dress OF green broadcloth, with Q
yoke Of real lace, the yoke being outlined
by some sort Of brown embroidery. Her
hat had a plume or aigrette or something
or other feath@ed floating from 1t. Crhe
description does not pretend to be expert)
Garst and Brooks.
Although Mrs. Sheldon won as many
honors as an Indiana corn grower. It must
be said that the audience. which was by
far the largest morning gathering so far.
heard two excellent addresses from Cow
errors Garst and Brooks. The former spoke
first. The chairman Of the day. after being
3 introduced by President Wattles, had made
some humorous references to the intimate
B relations between Iowa and Nebraska at
an early day, particularly the way Iowaus
came over to vote. Governor Garst re-
turned the compliment. stating that Ne
b~raskans mixing up In Pottawattamie and
Harrison county politics was not exactly
. an unheard of thing. Mr.. Garst's address
had to do with the spirit Of altruism which
is permeating the American people at the
. present day and with particular reference
TO agricultural conditions. He urged the
Z wide establishment OF manual training and