The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-09-21
CHILDREN'S FLOWER SHOW
NOVELTY OF THE YEAR
Cut Flowers Grown BY the Little
Ones Will Be Judged as Well as
Their Cooking, Art and Craft
Work.

With a building this year large
enough to permit exhibits to be dis
played to the best possible advan-
tage, it is expected that the speci-
mems of women's handiwork offered
for competition at the state fair this
fall will be particularly good one,
The Yakima county building at the
AlaSka-Y ukon-Pacific exhibition, 1t
will be remembered, was removed to
the state fair grounds and is to be
the home of the women's, children's
and educational exhibits. The rest
room up stairs will be retained, the
furniture given by the Cascade Lum-
Der company for the Seattle exhibit,
coming into the possession of the
fair managers. 1t is hoped to fill
showing of feminine skill. Displays
in this department range from the
highly ornamental to the highly
practical. Mount Mellick embroid-
cry to pies and canned fruit. The
list of awards is remarkably good,
totalling several hundred dollars, and
compares in completeness very ia
vorably with similar departments in
some of the big middle west state
fairs.
Attention to Children.
A novelty this year is the chill
dren's flower show, cut flowers of diff
ferent varieties being exhibited and
of no 10
contest is open to children of the
public schools of Washington. IT
promises indeed to be profitable
year for the young gardeners. The
Portia club, in an effort to stimulate
an interest in outdoor art this spring
offered prizes for children's gardens
the judging of which will probably
be done the coming week. Growers
of flowers from seeds given by the
Portia club will also be eligible tc
the state fair contest but any child
who has planted and cared for his
own garden, no matter where he pro-
cured the seeds, should take them
competition with the flowers grown
by other children. On Tuesday OF
fair week there will be prizes of 81
each for the best displays of cut as
tiers, stocks, golden glow and sweet
peas. For Wednesday the varietie:
to be judged are peoples, marigolds
pansies and corn flower; for Thurs.
day sweet alyssum, naturtiums anG
mignonette. On Friday the show
will consist of attractively arranged
bouquets of cut flowers, raised ant
cared for by public school pupils, fol
best of which a prize of 81 will bF
given, and of displays of cnt flower:
by schools. the school making the
best display gettina an award of SIS
Opportunity for All.
There is plenty Of opportunity, too
for the pupils in the manual train
ing and domestic science classes t.
show what they have been learning
Pies, cakes and biscuits made b,
girls under sixteen will be appropri
ately rewarded, and there are prizes
for the young artist, The young
craftsmen and the young needlewo
men.
\ Capable Judge.
Miss Mae Summerfield, of Sumner
is to be judge of the needlework. Sh,
is herself a skilled worker with thu
needle and an experienced judge
The embroidery and drawn work ex
hibit at the fair has always beer
very good, though the crampet
quarters of the past few years have
not always permitted it to be dis
| played to the best advantage Thi
year, with plenty of room, thi
| branch of the art department is sur,
to be worth see and worth com
peting in. The oil and water colol
contests open to amateurs and tn,
craft work will bring out, it is ex
pected, some good exhibits as tner,
are a number of clever worker
along these lines here.
Want All to Exhibit.
tendent OF the women's building
hopes the women of North Yakima
and the Yakima valley especially
viii make a special effort to show il
this department. With the western
Washington and the Spokane fair,
coming 10 near rne state fair, sn'
says that 1t is pretty difficult 10 &c
women of the eastern and western
sections 10 enter Ihelr work here
they naturally holding it for tn
home show. The state fair is tn
home show for the North Yakima
women and it is really up to them Il
make this department of the big in
jHsuial exhibit a credit. She KNOW
that there are clever workers her
and she wants their work. Sh
thanks, too, that women ought t,
take an interest and pride in en-
teriug their work into competition
with that of other work along SINH
lar lines. 1t isn't so much the mer
matter Of winning prize. blu
that competing IS good sport.
House Plants Desired.
Women who have nice hous
plants or choice blossoms which the,
can cut from gardens which the
have been carefully tending. could, i
they Would. make an excellent dis
pay The cut flowers are to b
taken out Tuesday morning an,
judged at noon of that day so tina
they may 80 asen AT their sreshes,
women or TIE ~uney SRve 70
some time been highly -uccessfu
competitors with the men in tn
fruit classes and in the chicken de
partment. ana this year will see Their
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