Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1912 — DISPLAYS FOR WOMEN [ARTICLE]

DISPLAYS FOR WOMEN

RICH EXHIBITS FOR THESE LOYAL FRIENDS OF STATE FAIR. Band Concerts, Parades, Great Show of Needlework, Decorated China, Pictures, Table Luxuries For Week of Sept. 2. There are thousands of Hoosler women who make Indiana State Fair week their vacation time, laying aside home work for a pleasure trip to the exposition, not only to enjoy the entertainment that is offered there, but to gather up ideas which they can apply to their affairs at home. To these women the exposition is a source of rest and refreshment as well as education and inspiration. For nearly sixty years the women of Indiana have been constant in their loyalty and attendance upon the fair, and, in anticipation of the feminine visitors coming to the exposition during the week of Sept. 2, the management is preparing a great feast of enjoyment for them. It is difficult to single out .any one division of the exposition and say that it is most attractive to the women. They are to be found in crowds in all portions of the grounds. They enjoy the band concerts, the races, the fruit, flower, poultry, dairy, horse and other shows. They swarm through the "midway,” with its carnival shows, thousands of women line the route of the live stock parades through the fair grounds. But if there are one or two points where the women concentrate most of their interest it is in the fine arts building and around thtVhow of table luxuries in Horticultural hall. The Indiana fair has become far famed for Its displays of decorated china and needlework. It is doubtful if any exposition annually held in America can rival the Indiana fair in those two lines of feminine taste and industry. The show of needlework is very wide in variety, ranging from old-fashioned quilts, such as the grandmothers of other days patiently patched and stitched, to the “last word” in infants’ wear, shawls of today’s creation, and fancy work of many kinds which grace the modern home. The show of china comes from the gifted hands of the best Indiana artists, who are without superiors in their especial line. Pictures In oils, water colors and photography, leather and brass work, and other lines of artistic endeavor as followed by talented women go to enrich the fine arts exposition of the Indiana fair. There is every promise that this division of the exposition will, as it does every year, crowd the big building assigned to it to overflowing. Indiana women who are highly gifted in the culinary art are, through their displays of table luxuries, always in evidence at the Indiana fair, and will be again at the coming exposition. The Hoosler women who send their jellies, Jams, breads and eakes, spiced fruits and candies, long ago won distinction at the state fair as genuine artists, and there is always very sharp rivalry for the prise ribbons that are awarded at the Hoosler exposition, as well as great crowds of women to see these products of the Heosier kitchens. The total prise awards offered in the fine arts and table luxury departments of the coming fair amount to ovqr $1,900. " > The entries to all classes of the state fair close on August 17. This early date is necessary that an Immense amount of clerical work may be completed by the secretary- The award book must be made up, the live stock entries must be classified, a catalogue of nearly 100 pages must be printed, all of this work to be done before the fair opens on Sept 2.*