...... 25,853.17
From interest received from banks ................................. 813.49
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Balance in hands of treasurer June 10, 1905 ..................... 26,666.66

Respectfully submitted.
JOHN PROUD,
_Certified Public Accountant._

The PRESIDENT AND AUDITING COMMITTEE,
_Board of Lady Managers, Louisiana Purchase Exposition._

It has been said that "an exposition should be as broad and
comprehensive as the efforts of mankind." In all human activities in
recent years advancement has been so marvelously rapid that important
expositions might be held from time to time in which would be included
nothing but inventions, discoveries, and accomplishments that belong to
the intervening epoch-making periods.

That all nations take a deep interest in world's fairs is made manifest
by the large attendance of people from all parts of the globe. It is
self-evident that they appreciate the fact that most beneficial results
may be derived by all, not only by means of the practical and tangible
demonstration and comparison of objects assembled, but through the
opportunity afforded for interchange of thought so conspicuously made
available to advanced thinkers and workers. And it is hoped and believed
that in its own time and in its own way each exposition will accomplish
much for the good of both men and women of every country.

It would seem from the division of work as shown at the exposition by
the Filipinos and the Indian tribes that women have not only, from the
remotest times of which we have record, originated and practiced most of
the industrial arts, but, among primitive nations, they still continue
to ply the same occupations. The exhibits showed that the work of the
men was still that of the hunter and trapper, while the Filipino woman
who sat on the floor making cotton cloth, would indicate that it had
fallen to the share of women not only to fashion garments, but the
material from which they were made. And was not the stick which she so
deftly handled, upon which she wound her thread to carry the woof to and
fro transversely across the warp of her hand-woven fabric, the
forerunner of the swiftly moving shuttle of today? And if the primitive
woman still makes garments from the skins which the hunter brings home,
and cooks the game which he shoots or traps, and has originated the
method of cooking other articles of food