tary
materials; Glass and crystal; Apparatus and processes for
heating and ventilation; Apparatus and methods, not electrical,
for lighting; Textiles; Equipment and processes used in the
manufacture of textile fabrics; Equipment and processes used in
bleaching, dyeing, printing, and finishing textiles in their
various stages; Equipment and processes used in sewing and
making wearing apparel; Threads and fabrics of cotton; Threads
and fabrics of flax, hemp, etc.; Cordage; Yarns and fabrics of
wool; Silk and fabrics of silk; Laces, embroidery, and
trimmings; Industries producing wearing apparel for men, women,
and children; Leather, boots and shoes, furs and skins, fur
clothing; Various industries connected with clothing.

Miss Bernays reports as follows:

In order to arrive at an accurate idea of the value of women's
work as compared with men's, it would have been necessary to
study the St. Louis Exposition from the time of its opening to
the close, with a view to collecting data and statistics on this
question. Furthermore, to get definite results regarding the
progress of women since the Columbian Exposition one would have
had to have access to the researches and statistics of former
expositions on this subject, if such there exist. I visited both
the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the Paris Exposition of
1900, but I have only impressions of the work by women as
exhibited there. Nor can I furnish figures, percentages, or even
accurate estimates of women's work at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition. The observations subjoined have value only in so far
as the interest in women's work lies always in the under-current
of my thought. Even under the terrific stress of the enormous
amount of work pressed into the few short days of jury duty I
was vividly impressed with the dignity of the work accomplished
in arts and crafts by the women of Germany, where it was
exhibited together with that of men. In the one instance where
women secluded themselves it was shown with appalling force that
the result was tawdry and inharmonious.

I was appointed by the board of lady managers to serve upon the
department jury in the same classification of which I had served
as group juror, for "Kunstgewerbe" (Arts and Crafts). Finding my
group divided into four classes--Fixed inner decoration,