People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — WOMEN AT THE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN AT THE FAIR.

Showing by the Representatives of Isabella’s Side of the Case. At the Columbian fair half the clerical and other writing work has been done by women. Half of the exhibits are managed by women or consist of women. The clerkships are mostly filled by women, and there are twentyfive thousand stenographers, typewriters and press women. Women have put the finishing touches on the buildings in frescoes and statuary and suggested the comfortable seats, resting rooms, nurseries for, children and other essentials for the comfort of sightseers. One woman has a mending booth, where she sews on buttons and repairs rents and rips. Another woman has a collection of simple remedies for minor Ills to the suffering. Still another keeps ap “information booth,” and she will tell you where to find a cheap luncheon or check your satchel while you eat it And all along the line between the most pretentious and most simple feminine extremes woman’s work and suggestion and influences are everywhere. In 1492 a woman helped Columbus to discover a continent, whereas four hundred years later woman should discover her-self.—-Troy Times. A beautiful handkerchief, which was made for Queen Marie Antoinette is on exhibition at the Woman’s building at the world’s fair. It is of the finest lawn, and a beautiful design of a hunting scene was embroidered upon it by skilled workwomen, who employed a microscope in doing the work, and two of them lost their eyesight while finishing it for the young queen.