ion and development since the Chicago Fair;
hence the display at St. Louis showed a decided and marked
advance over the work of a similar nature shown at Chicago, but,
naturally, there were no exhibits from foreign women, municipal
betterment work being new for both men and women, in the present
understanding of the term. The work shown, of course, relating
as it does to the social life of cities, would prove helpful to
those interested in the advancement and success of women's work,
but I saw no difference in appreciation shown in comparing the
work of men and women, and the very nature of the work would not
permit of its being separately exhibited, and it was not in all
cases shown which had been performed or accomplished by women,
which by men, although much of the work had been stimulated by
women, but just how much they actually performed I can not say,
and only two or three awards were given to women.

The board of lady managers was given recognition on each of the
department juries, fifteen in number, namely, Education, Art, Liberal
Arts, Manufactures, Machinery, Electricity, Transportation Exhibits,
Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Mines and Metallurgy, Fish and
Game, Anthropology, Social Economy, Physical Culture.

The department jurors report as follows:

Department A, Education, Dr. Howard J. Rogers, Chief; Mrs. W.E. Fischel,
St. Louis, Mo., Department Juror.

This department comprised 5 groups and 26 classes, the group
headings being Elementary education, Secondary education, Higher
education, Special education in fine arts, Special education in
agriculture, Special education in commerce and industry,
Education of defectives, and Special forms of
education--text-books--School furniture, and School appliances.

Mrs. Fischel writes:

The queries relative to woman's work at the exposition were duly
received. I have given very careful consideration to the request
of the accompanying letter and have deferred my answer so as to
deliberate most intelligently. Reading the questions over, I
found myself unable to form any opinion of woman's work as
woman's work. Indeed, I have held very strongly to the opinion
that the one great thing accomplished for women in this
Louisiana Purchase Exposition was the exhibition of work as work
without distinction as to sex. In the jury room, when I