The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-04
EVERYBODY PLANS
 ID ATTEND TIE FAIR Alabamians Are Eager to See
 Flying Machine ITS EDUCATIONAL VALUE Mrs. Reid's Department as Usual Will Be Notable for It's Exhibits of the
 Recent Progress Made By
 Alabama Women
ITS EDUCATIONAL VALUE
BY WALTER HARPER

Everybody and his mother-in-law will attend the State fair which opens in Bir- mingham next Thursday morning.
 People in all parts of Alabama have been talking about the fair for weeks and have been saving up their dollars to spend in Birmingham, the real city with more than 125,0o0 people in it.
 By the way, haven't you got a great deal more respect for your home town since you saw the cold figures? You knew you had big city, the biggest and best in the south, but now the other fel- low and Uncle Saw have been convinced and your wing feathers just will strut 1 in spite of you.
 | We'll, the prominent citizens of Ala bama will come up this week and next week to take another look at us and in- cidentally see the fair. the farm exhibits and the flying machine, a real flying ma chine that is heavier than the air through which it will sail.
 The Alabama State fair will not be a mere show. If it were would not waste time writing about it. It will be educa- tional and every citizen of Alabama can well afford to come up for few days. | The flying machine the latest advance in | human ingenuity, is well worth the trip | and every man, woman and child who can l is coming. One busy man in western Alabama tells me that he is going to close up his shop and come up for the entire ten days. He Is going to bring his | family and take a vacation. | Big corn plump pumpkins, juicy peaches and fat hams are the new industrial re- | ligion of Alabama. Domestic art is the new fad of Alabama's peerless women. | These will go on dress parade at the fair this week and next. The demonstra- | tions will be not only educative but mag nfficent Everything is getting ready and when the gates swing open Thursday morning the fair will be complete. Carpenters and decorators are now put ting on the finishing touches. The farm and other exhibits are being unloaded from cars and are being rapidly placed In position. The heads of departments as well as the officers are as busy as ward heelers at an election.
 Mrs J. B. Reid, manager of the wom- ans department has almost forgotten she has a home and is busy day and night.
 Reuben F. Kolb, in charge of the agri- cultural exhibits, is rolling pumpkins and driving cattle with all the old-time skill he employed when he conducted one of the most successful farms in Baroour county just after the war.
 He is determined that this shall be the best fair tor practical merit ever held in Birmingham.
 Mrs. Reids department will be the crowning feature of the exhibit depart ments of the fair.
 She never rests from labor from one years end to the other. Her department deserves the highest standard of success She Is demanding that exhibits in all her departments be of an educational quail ty Everything must be new, made with the hands during the past year. There must be nothing old or that has been shown at the fair before.
 The exhibit must show progress. It must be something that will inspire or suggest improvement in others as we'll as the individual or commuiity exhibit.
 Just at this time when domestic art and science constitute one of the most vital questions of public education the good work of Mrs Reid at the fair should attract especial attention.
 The number of individual as well as collective exhibits by the women of Ala bama and Jefferson county is more en- couraging and is an indication of the
 
 great work of an educational nature that this busy woman is planning for the fu- ture.
 Mrs. Reid wants to help the women Of Alabama to improve their condition brighten their homes and make life more worth while with profitable and con- genial work Work brings happiness and contentment. Education, academic and practical, makes work easy and pleasant.
 Mrs. Reid hopes to educate the women of Alabama through the eye. The hest livestock ever shown at any fair in Birmingham will be on exhibition and should be a fine object lesson to those farmers of the state who are be- coming interested in the raising of cat tie and hogs.
 | About 20 counties of the state will be represented in the agricultural exhlpits and MT. Kolb is happy.