the science of good cooking, all the exhibits
being installed by American women, no foreign women that I can
recall participating, and the display was more creditable than
at the Chicago Exposition, in that the exhibitors showed more
confidence in themselves and their work, more attention being
given also to the purity and healthfulness of their food
exhibits. Their work, as shown at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, would most certainly prove helpful or suggestive to
those interested in the advancement and success of women's work
by their exhibition of success already achieved, and the work of
women, it is believed, was as well appreciated when placed by
the side of that of men, and the results would not have been
better had their work been separately exhibited. No
manufacturers that I knew of, excepting the Purina Mills
(Ralston) exhibition, were asked to state the percentage of
woman's work that entered into the manufacture of their special
exhibits, and only by one or two exhibits was it in a measure
indicated in any way which part had been performed by woman,
which by men; but, in my opinion, probably about one-tenth of
the work was performed by women in this group. There were eight
women exhibitors out of a total of sixty-three applications.

In the exhibits in this department daintier manipulation and
more regard for purity of foods was shown than in the past, and
in the construction of individual booths Mrs. Buchanan's
pickles, Mrs. Gautz (Northwestern Yeast Company), and Mrs.
Haffner's Swansdown flour deserve special mention. The exhibits
of the women did not show special development of original
inventions, but were mainly improvements and greater skill in
handling the products, the greatest labor-saving machine being
Werner's domestic machinery; but it is presumed this is the
invention of man only, and that while women took no part in
constructing that their installations were a credit to the most
wonderful of all expositions and were a great attraction to
visitors.

I am frank to say that as I look back upon our work there, the
women who made the greatest effort to add to the attractiveness
of the Agricultural Palace did not receive all the awards they
deserved, namely, Mrs. Rose E. Bailey, to whom was awarded a
grand prize for the ingenuity of her exhibit