en all the previous
displays, where the accentuated feminine was relegated to
separate little buildings or separate little corners in
buildings. I saw more than one German artist hustle his American
friends past that part of the Varied Industries Building, where
abominations of his misguided countrywomen were on view. And
more than one told me that it was a slander on what German women
could do. This only goes to prove that the action of the
authorities in charge of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
believed to be the fact: That the exhibition of woman's work,
apart from men's, runs to the tawdry, the insignificant, and the
unnecessary. Therefore, separation of the sexes in the display
at expositions should not be tolerated.

Department E, Machinery, Mr. Thomas M. Moore, Chief; Miss Edith J.
Griswold, New York City, Department Juror.

This department comprised 5 groups and 35 classes, the group
headings being: Steam engines; Various motors; General
machinery; Machine tools; Arsenal tools.

Miss Griswold says:

After considerable consideration I almost feel that the least
said about women exhibitors in the Machinery Department at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition the better. The fact is, there
were no women exhibitors. However, in this department the
exhibitors were mostly old firms or very large manufacturers,
and while women are undoubtedly making their way into mechanics
they have not been in the field long enough to have reached a
point where their work of a nature to form exposition exhibits
can compete with man's work. The chief of the Machinery
Department and one other member of the jury mentioned a Miss
Gleason, who is connected with one of the firms that exhibited,
and spoke of her ability in the mechanical line and her
knowledge of mechanics in the highest of terms. Women are
employed in various capacities in nearly every line of work that
was exhibited in this department, and Miss Gleason probably
stands as an example of the real but unostentatious work of many
women who understand the intricacies of machinery fully as well
as men with the same degree of training.

That women are making a place for themselves in this department of
industry is shown by the Patent Office statistics. The first patents for
inventions were granted to men in 1790, but no patent was issued to