, has she not earned for herself
the right to be termed the first "home maker?" It is true the home
originally had to be maintained by force of arms, but when this
necessity no longer existed, and man, "the protector," had time to
examine this woman-made home, he put his ingenuity to work to aid in the
increased demands large households made upon women and invented and
applied machinery to do the heavy tasks that had theretofore been done
by them. He found it a vastly remunerative occupation, and promptly
removed her work of spinning, weaving, dyeing, and even the making of
every kind of garment, and the preparation of foods, to his factories.

Women did not take kindly to the innovation at first--their occupations
were gone--but, with their usual adaptability, they immediately invented
new ones. They now had time and opportunity to acquire education, enter
the professions, and prepare themselves to take their equal place by the
side of men.

President Francis, in his address on opening day, said of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition:

So thoroughly does it represent the world's civilization that if
all man's other works were, by some unspeakable catastrophe,
blotted out the records here established by the assembled
nations would afford all necessary standards for the rebuilding
of our entire civilization.

And at this great exposition, by the elimination of the special woman's
department, the exhibits of woman's work for the first time in this
country stood solely and independently by the side of the exhibits by
men, and the industrial equality and the value of the contributions to
the industries, sciences, and arts of both were judged by the same
standards. Let no concern, therefore, be felt as to the future
advancement of women. Their strength and powers have been tested, and
the new era upon which they entered but a few years ago under the
leadership of the women of America is now so far advanced for the women
of all nations in every country that their undeniable right to education
and training is being acknowledged, their consequent recognition as a
factor for increased usefulness is being accorded, and their development
is swift, their progress sure.

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition is passing into the realm wherein lies
forgetfulness; its beauties are even now fading from the memories of its
millions of visitors. The buildings have been razed, and the broad acres
it covered have been la