reception to Forest Park
University students, November 14; informal dance, November 18;
reception to Prince Fushimi, the official representative to the
exposition of the Mikado of Japan, November 22; dinner to
Jefferson Guards, Thanksgiving Day, November 24; final reception
of the board of lady managers on what was known as "Francis
Day," in honor of the president of the exposition, when the
board of lady managers kept informal "open house" and
entertained all who called on this, the last day of the
exposition, December 1.

The members of the board met their obligations with acceptable
dignity, offering cordial hospitality to all the important
bodies meeting within the exposition grounds. Their building was
the social center around which gathered the national and
international representatives of governments and organizations,
until more than 25,000 persons received specific invitation to
their official entertainments. And whether the hospitality was
extended to His Eminence, the emissary of the Pope, or whether
it was a reception to His Imperial Highness, the representative
of the Mikado of Japan, or a dinner to the envoy of Empress An,
of China, or to the governor of a State and his staff, or to the
members of the National Commission, or the officials of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, all were welcomed with
genuine cordiality, the board of lady managers never failing to
remember their responsibility and that they were representing
the nation and serving their country by thus doing their share
in affording an opportunity for all nationalities to become
acquainted with each other and with our social customs as
demonstrated at the exposition.

Respectfully submitted.
M. MARGARETTA MANNING, _Chairman_.
FANNIE LOWERY PORTER,
BELLE L. EVEREST,
JOSEPHINE SULLIVAN,
SALENA V. ERNEST,
M.K. DE YOUNG,
KATHARINE PRATT HORTON,
HELEN BOICE-HUNSICKER,
AMELIA VON MAYHOFF,
_Members of Committee_.

The ninth meeting of the board was called September 20, 1904. This was a
special meeting called for the purpose of reconfirming the departmental
jurors as is set forth in the final report of the chairman of the
committee on awards.

An exposition must of necessity prove educational. The director of
exhibits of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition said "The opportunity