le achievement to have one such exhibit as
that standing absolutely upon its merits and dealing with the
civic and general social conditions as they are constantly
developing in our large and growing cities. It had suggestions
of activities along a dozen lines which make for amelioration of
urban conditions as they bear hardest upon the people of the
most crowded quarters. To quote from the report of another on
this subject: "It is now a well-established fact that women most
effectively supplement the best interests and the furthering of
the highest aims of all government by their numberless
charitable, reformatory, educational, and other beneficent
institutions which she has had the courage and the ideality to
establish for the alleviation of suffering, for the correction
of many forms of social injustice and neglect, and these
institutions exert a strong and steady influence for good, an
influence which tends to decrease vice, to make useful citizens
of the helpless or depraved, to elevate the standard of
morality, and to increase the sum of human happiness."

Department P, Physical Culture, J.E. Sullivan, Chief; Miss Clara
Hellwig, Plainfield, N.J., Department Juror.

This department comprised 3 groups and 6 classes, the group
headings being: Training of the child and adult-theory and
practice; Games and sports for children and adults; Equipment
for games and sports.

Unfortunately Miss Hellwig was abroad and did not receive
notification in time to reach St. Louis for the jury work.

Superior Jury.

Mrs. Philip N. Moore, of St. Louis, Mo., was appointed to represent the
board of lady managers on the superior jury, and in a general resume of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Mrs. Moore says:

If the organization of a world's exposition begins years before
its doors open, if public opinion changes in a decade, it may be
well, before summing up the work of women at St. Louis, to look
first at the record of achievement from Chicago in 1893 through
Atlanta, Nashville, Omaha, Paris, and Buffalo, all of which led
gradually to the high plane upon which we now stand.

Segregation of the sexes was the limited understanding of most
of those in charge of former expositions. Not for a moment would
I imply by this statement that there was a desire to give the
work of women a lower gra