roup heading, "Various industries connected with
clothing," the ten classes into which it was divided represented
(processes and products): Hats; hats of felt, wool, straw, silk;
caps, trimmings for hats. Artificial flowers for dressing the
hair, for dress, and for all other uses. Feathers. Millinery.
Hair; coiffures, wigs, switches. Shirts and underclothing for
men, women, and children. Hosiery of cotton, wool, silk, and
floss silk, etc.; knitted hosiery; cravats and neckties. Corsets
and corset fittings. Elastic goods, suspenders, garters, belts.
Canes, whips, riding whips, sunshades, parasols, umbrellas.
Buttons, buttons of china, metal, cloth, silk, mother-of-pearl,
or other shell, ivory, nut, horn, bone, papier-mache, etc.
Buckles, eyelets, hooks and eyes, pins, needles, etc. Fans and
hand screens.

Mrs. Harrow reports as follows:

The work of group 53, of which I was a member, did not take us
very extensively among the women exhibitors of the exposition,
but in every instance where their work came under our
observation or inspection they demonstrated their marked ability
in the manner and taste shown in their display, and in some
instances, where their competitors were men, they proved the
fact that if their work was not superior, it was at least equal
to that of the men.

In my opinion it is better for women's work to come in
competition with that of men and not be separated.

All women in general, I feel sure, must have been greatly
benefited by having a fair representation at the exposition, as
it could not but help placing a higher standard upon all women's
work, and that work in particular in which she excelled.

And as woman's work receives benefit, and also success by being
placed on equal terms of comparison with that of men, so
likewise may man's work receive helpful suggestions and real
advancement by being brought into competition with the work of
women.

Group 58 (later combined with Group 59), Mrs. E.D. Wood, Indianapolis,
Ind., Juror.

Under the group heading "Laces, embroidery, and trimmings," the
seven classes into which it was divided represented: Lace made
by hand, laces, blond or guipure, wrought on pillow or with the
needle or crochet, made of flax, cotton, silk, wool, gold,
silver, or other threads. Laces made by machinery; tulles, plai