were given the gold medal.

In the exhibits of the large manufacturers there was no way to
tell what part of the labor had been performed by women; but on
the printed forms the proportion of women laborers was quite
often given, but it is a known fact that two-thirds of the work
of these large factories is done by women and girls.

This should be a wide avenue for women to enter the marts of
life, but on the small scale it is so underpaid in proportion to
the labor expended that but few are bold enough to enter.

Department J, horticulture, Mr. Frederic W. Taylor, chief, comprised 7
groups and 27 classes, the board of lady managers being represented in
but one group.

Group 107, Mrs. M.B.R. Day, Frankfort, Ky., Juror.

Under the group heading "Pomology," the six classes into which
it was divided represented: Pomaceous and stone fruits--apples,
pears, quinces, cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines,
etc. Citrus fruits--oranges, lemons, limes, shaddocks, pomelos,
etc. Tropical and subtropical fruits--pineapples, bananas,
guavas, mangos, tamarinds, figs, olives, sepodillas, etc. Small
fruits--strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, dewberries,
gooseberries, currants, etc. Nuts--almonds, chestnuts, filberts,
pecans, hickorynuts, walnuts, etc. Casts and models of fruits in
wax, plaster, etc.

Mrs. Day says, in substance, in her replies to the questions:
That she can not give an approximate number of women who
exhibited in this group, but that the nature of the exhibits
shown were fruits--grapes, apples, etc.--and flowers, the most
striking exhibits being by florists and fruit culturists, and
that women have entered many more branches of this work in
recent years; that she believes their work shown at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition would prove helpful and suggestive
by reason of the great care taken in the exhibits. Mrs. Day does
not think any difference was shown in appreciation of the
exhibits of women when placed by the side of men, and hardly
thinks the result would have been better had the work of women
been separately exhibited. This seems to be almost the only
department where exhibits were shown in such manner as to
indicate whether they were the work of men or women, as all
exhibits were marked distinctly with the name of the owner of
fruit, farm, or fl