The Washington times., 1922-09-19
WOMEN's WARE,
NO1S'WEAR,' ON
.EAAlBIlT.IN NY.
Grace Dodge Hotel, Of D. c.,
y Has 'Boothat Business and
Professional Fair.
By wILEENE TAYLOR.
Cosmopolitan News Service.

Cosmopolitan News service.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-By womr
ems ware--not women's wear
shah the gentier sex be, judged.
An exhibit of women's activities
has been opened here by the New
York Lsague> OF Business and Prp-
fessional Women. Mrs. Elizabeth
Sears, editor of The Woman Inde-
pendent,c who is chairman, said
that the wares shown prove that
women have successfully tackled
and mastered every known business
and profession. Three hundred and
fifty business and professional
clubs from. forty-seven States are
represented In exhibits.
THE home is the most important
consideration in the exhibit" Mrs,
Sears said; today, Here, with all
these hundreds OF business women.
do you think that the home has
been neglected.? Never. The en-
trance into business of women has
not made them less capable house
wives. but more capable and eff
Cient ones. a -. o
Home making is to be empha-
sized above all else. The nursery
has the choicest spot on the ex-
hftition floor. ...
Although the women who will
exhibit are manufacturers. doctors,
lawyers. scientists. bankers and
salesladies, they all agree that the
first and most important activity
of a woman Is home making.
'All - that women's progress
means Is that she is now better
able to make and keep a home.
Her experience in business makes
her a more thrifty housekeeper.
Electricity and other inventions en-
able her to keep a cleaner. more
sanitary house for the children.
The exhibit. at the Commodore
hotel, is the first demonstration Of
its kind ever held. The national
convention of women's Clubs. which
met in Chautauqua, N. Y, in June,
decided upon this method Of bring
ing before the world just what wom-
en- had accomplished in business and
professions. The convention express.
ed the beliefthat there were too many
who still thought women were a joke
In. business and others who failed 10
hear about her deeds, because she
worked 50 quietly.
But first the exhibit Is to en-
courage hesitant women to go into
business" Mrs, Sears said. There
are hundreds OF women today, who
have wonderful business ability. and
who are very eager to enter the
business world, but they have been
discouraged by the men of their fam.
lily or by.,tales that women are fail
ures in business.
when such a woman comes to
our exhibit and sees there success
full women who are actually at the
head of their professions, then she
will be encouraged to follow her am
bitions, too"
The exhibit will be a pageant Of
feminine business progress. There
will be exhibits of activities in more
than fifty vocations. There are in
ventors, architects, landscape garden
ers. insurance agents. etc.. with ex'
hibits of their work.
California women have a fruit ex.
hibit. Kansas women have an agri-
cultural exhibit; Maine women are
showing Qualities of their State as a
summer resort Pennsylvania women
have mining exhibit. Several
women's newspapers will be repre-
sented, and also women's magazines,
including the Pictorial Review and
Ladies Home Journal, which are in
large part edited by women.
- Mary Frazier wessefhoeft, stain
glass window artist Of international
note IL present. One concern de-
monstrates vacuum cleaner for the
air, invented by a woman. Edythe
Chailick runs a nurses register. Mrs.
Thomas A.. Blackford has n secre-
tarial bureau, where social functions
are managed entirely for persons who
have no private social secretaries.
One woman has invented a certain
liquid bronze, another a fancy con-
crete tile, another runs a large paint
factory.
Helen NJ. Woods conducts a tea.
room training school. Several wom-
en- own chains of flourishing tea
rooms.
The Grace Dodge Hotel, at Wash
ington, has a booth. The Candy In
stitute, which teaches the making of
fine candies and Is the idea and prop
erty OF Eleanor Hanna; the National
Stage Woman'1 Exchange, spon-
sored by Hilda Spong, and the Home
Bureau Medical. House, which SUD-
plies everything for the sick room,
are represented.
. A woman from New Mexico is ex.
hibiting her prize nut cracker inven.
tion.
\ After the exhibit. Mrs. Sears says
the girls of the country will find a
hundred new lines they can follow
In life that they never knew existed
before The girl today thinks she
has to pick a vocation from a few
lines, none Of which she may like.
But the exhibit will be an eye-opcner
to her. Mrs. Sears says.
WYOMING GETS S1 so6 ATT