of Exhibits' Building._

In the resolution adopted by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Commission, in session assembled at the city of New York the 7th
day of February, 1902, certain rules were made governing the
board of lady managers. The first one recites the power given by
Congress to this board of lady managers to appoint "one member
of all committees authorized to award prizes for such exhibits
as may have been produced in whole or in part by female labor."

The committee on woman's work would suggest:

First. That our board make due preparation for the intelligent
selection of one member of all committees authorized to award
prizes for such exhibits as may have been produced in whole or
in part by female labor, and that we request from the local
executive committee a list of all work presented for competition
before the Louisiana Purchase Exposition produced in whole or in
part by female labor.

Under the resolutions of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of
February 7, 1902, second, we are to "exercise general
supervisory control over such features of the exposition as may
be specially devoted to woman's work."

This resolution is so vague in its phraseology that we are
unable to outline just what we may be permitted to do, and the
chairman wishes to call the attention of this board to the fact
that one of the subjects which we were instructed to take up
before the local executive committee was in regard to a
resolution passed by this board at its first meeting on
September 30, 1902, regarding indecent and immoral dancing. We
were instructed by the board of lady managers to inquire what
action had been taken in regard to this resolution, and were
informed that it was acted upon immediately, and the company's
attorney was instructed to make the contracts in the Midway
Plaisance so as to exclude immoral and indecent dancing.

The third resolution, that we were "to take part in the
ceremonies connected with the dedication of the buildings of the
exposition, and in official functions in which women may be
invited to participate, and in any other functions, upon the
request of the company and Commission."

From the very gracious manner in which this board of lady
managers has been provided for and permitted to participate in
the opening ceremonies of the