er woman's work was as well
appreciated when placed side by side with that of men, as when
separately exhibited, I would say, that the trend of opinion at
the present time is to judge of work by its character and
quality rather than by the sex of the worker. Every woman
student desires only such judgment to be passed on her work and
is grateful that the day has come when she can be so dealt with.

Again, as to a comparison between the exhibits of woman's work
at previous expositions and at the one held in St. Louis; as I
have visited nearly all since that of the Centennial, I think
that no one could fail to note the fairer estimate put on
woman's work at the, recent exposition than was ever before
granted. From the days of the childhood of the race to the
present time it has always been impossible to draw a hard and
fast line between the labors of men and those of women, their
work has continually interchanged and overlapped. What has been
woman's work in one age has become man's in another. The history
of textile industries is a well known case in point. Such being
the fact, it is in keeping with the truth of the past and the
present time, not to attempt to exhibit separately that which
has always been interwoven.

In anthropology the number of women students is small, but the
work accomplished by these few has been creditable, and has
received its due recognition.

The Indian school exhibit came under the Department of
Anthropology, and several women received awards for special
accomplishments.

Looking over the field of woman's work as presented at the St.
Louis Exposition, one is convinced of the growth of a healthful
recognition of her labors in the upbuilding of social life, both
in the ideal and the practical, and can not fail to note the
uses to which she is putting the widening opportunities for her
higher education.

Group 127, Mrs. Alice Palmer Henderson, of Tacoma, Wash., Juror.

Under the group heading "Ethnology" there was but one class,
representing illustration of the growth of culture; the origin
and development of arts and industries; ceremonies, religious
rites, and games; social and domestic manners and customs;
languages and origin of writing.

Mrs. Henderson says:

In the Department of Anthropology in the Louisiana Purchase
Exposit