afforded for study and comparison of the various productions of human
genius and activity classified and shown in detail, the finished product
beside the methods and processes by which articles are produced, the
vast systems of machinery in operation, and the skilled artisans
occupied in difficult and intricate employments or native industries,
representing accurately and in detail the latest development of the
various arts and manufactures, makes it possible for not only the
student to acquire knowledge, but each exhibitor may learn something
from every other exhibitor in his class which may be to his advantage,
and which may lead to the improvement of that which he produces, whether
it be in the domain of art or manufacture, at home or abroad. The
measure of the value of an international exposition is determined by the
number of important countries represented by exhibits, the
characteristics and comprehensive nature of these exhibits, or the
excellence in quality according to the standards of the countries from
which they come. That an exposition affords the greatest opportunity
that manufacturers and producers of a nation have to increase their
export trade by displaying their samples and products before the eyes of
foreign people whose markets they seek. Exhibitors are commercial and
noncommercial." The commercial exhibitor has as his chief object the
advertisement of his business and consequent increase in the sale of his
goods by means of his display and the possible receipt of an award which
may prove valuable in future exploitation of his products. The
noncommercial exhibitor has but the moral satisfaction of receiving the
tangible assurance of the excellence of his work as represented by the
award.

Though woman's work enters into almost all manufactured articles, its
proportion in some is very small, and at the Columbian Exposition, where
it was estimated that women had a share in nearly 350 industries, it was
finally agreed between the board of control and the board of lady
managers that the best method upon which to base the proportion of women
on the juries would be to give them representation according to the
amount of work done by women on articles to be judged in each department
of the classification. This was a very satisfactory arrangement to that
board, inasmuch as the manufacturers exhibiting were asked on the
application blanks furnished them when they applied for space: "Was the
work upon this exh