s easy as possible
for them and see that days do not collide."

A member of the committee made the request that some provision
should be made for the care of trained nurses at the exposition,
and Mr. Skiff stated that the War Department was contemplating a
field hospital. "They want two things. I do not know what the
outcome will be. If you ladies could proceed sufficiently to get
these ladies interested in the trained nurse idea--to offer the
services of a certain number of 'changed' nurses (you
understand, double the number, so that they can change)--I have
no doubt that Doctor Laidley will be glad to avail of their
services."

In answer to the questions as to the time the jurors would be
appointed, and whether he had a list of the things on which
women are to be appointed, and how long before they would be
known, Mr. Skiff replied:

"The jurors will be appointed the first week of the exposition,
and the list of things on which women are to be appointed will
depend on whether the work is done in whole or in part by female
labor. We will know as soon as we get a catalogue. We can not
tell what the exhibits will be until they are exhibits. The
pamphlet of classification will be of invaluable assistance to
you, ladies, in your work. The jurors are to be paid $7 a day
and traveling expenses."

In response to the inquiry whether the board should not begin to
look out for the women that would be capable for that sort of
work, Mr. Skiff said:

"They will develop. There are 108 classes; a committee on each
class would be 1,200 jurors. We are not working women's exhibits
up any more than men's. It takes care of itself. We do not
specially promote, except in this way: An officer of a
department, if he understands his work, is given a
classification. That is his bible. He makes up his mind what is
possible to do in the way of an exhibit. They build up an
exhibit. In that way they find it necessary to touch what we
call 'individual promotion' on their broad lines. For instance,
in education, deaf, dumb, and blind; charity, philanthropy, and
education of mind; conveyance of thought; social economy, the
model city; machinery, that class of machinery that is most
ingenious; electricity, electric therapeutics, electric
magnetism; transportation, aeronautics, Santos Dum