others their strong points in the most telling manner.  The jury of higher education did not ask on examining an exhibit whether it was men’s or women’s work.  Each exhibit was judged entirely on its individual merit as presented.  And if the universities and great men’s colleges (and in many cases these included women’s work) received a higher grade of award than did the great women’s colleges, it was because, in the opinion of the jury, the equipment of the former and the larger showing in the way of actual work and appliances entitled them to the award, rather than that it was the respective work of either men or women.  But I may say, to show the absolutely unbiased mind of the jury, that women’s work in many lines came in for even greater appreciation than did that of the men.

By no means would the results have been better if their work had been separately exhibited.  A far greater importance was assumed by women’s work in the placing of it side by side with men’s work.  Thus displayed, it received precisely equal attention and a more liberal study undoubtedly than it would have done if placed alone.

At Chicago and various other expositions it was relegated to a far less desirable position by itself.  The very fact of its isolation in a building designated the Women’s Building set it apart as a different and inferior effort and created a prejudice against it.

Women’s work was far more varied at St. Louis and more representative of different nations.  The so-called strictly feminine, viz, art and needlework, pottery, decoration, libraries of books by women authors, attractive parlors, displaying women’s taste, which largely filled the charming women’s buildings at Chicago, at Atlanta, at the Tennessee Centennial, at Omaha, and at Buffalo, were unquestionably showy and striking displays.  In St. Louis, on the contrary, women’s exhibits mingled with men’s work in the serious and practical enterprises of the day and appealed to the same audiences.  Woman appeared as she really is, the fellow-student, the fellow-citizen, and partner of man in the affairs of life.

Manufacturers were not asked to state the percentage of woman’s work which entered into the manufacture of their special exhibit, nor did I have any way of forming any estimate on this point; neither were they shown in any manner that would indicate in any way or enable the investigator to distinguish what part had been performed by women.

Considering all kinds of work involved in the exhibits of the Department of Education, whether installed by women alone or in conjunction with men, the taste, completeness, ingenuity of the same, the clerical work during the duration of the fair—­in other words, the whole connection of woman with carrying out the administration of the Department of Education—­it may be considered that 50 per cent of the work was performed by women.  The German section was entirely