yed and enjoyed the
many features provided for their amusement. Every child took
home a box of dainties and a souvenir of Thanksgiving Day, that
traditional New England festivity. A member of the National
Commission planned the affair, and it proved a notable success.
Children of twenty-eight nationalities or tribes were gathered
on the playground at one time. No such representation ever took
place before, or was possible, except at the Model Play Ground
and Day Nursery of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

It continued to be of service even to the closing hour. On
December 1, the final day of the fair, 48 children, of whom 19
were less than 1 year old, were checked; 2,000 children were
admitted free of charge, and 31 lost children were cared for and
returned in safety to their homes or guardians.

In reviewing the experiences of the fair, it is gratifying to
realize that although the members of the board of lady managers
were not able to carry out one of their most cherished desires,
and suffered keen disappointment in the abandonment of the
creche, still they had the pleasure of rendering material aid to
a beautiful work, for such certainly was the Model Play Ground
and Day Nursery.

Mrs. Hirschfield states that the assistance given by the board
of lady managers can not be measured, for far beyond the money
value of their appropriation was the power of their influence,
and the interest aroused was not alone for the occasion of the
fair, but would reach far into the future, affecting other
undertakings of a similar nature.

On the day following the close of the exposition, one of the
most able of the directors of the exposition expressed his
approval of the course of the board of lady managers. As
hostesses of the fair, he complimented them gracefully, and for
the attitude they had been obliged to take regarding the creche,
of which he had been critical, he was happy to say he had been
converted, and he was convinced that the board had acted
prudently and wisely; that undoubtedly the attempt to carry on
the elaborate and expensive creche would have ended in financial
failure and embarrassments; that the aid given Mrs. Hirschfield
had made the Play Ground and Day Nursery so effective that it
met all needs in a most acceptable manner and had proven one of
the m