under the supervision of men, as were most, if not all, of the foreign exhibits.  But women were everywhere else omnipresent in charge of the Educational Department.

In the awards to higher education I would say that upward of 20 per cent went to women exhibitors. (For percentages and other suggestions I am indebted to Dr. J.J.  Conway, St. Louis University, also a member of jury of higher education.)

We point with pride to the discovery of radium by Madame Currie, of Paris, as both a new, useful, and distinctive work of woman.  Columns might be written on this invention alone.  The work of Madame Currie was certainly original.  Miss Annie E. Sullivan’s new methods of teaching the deaf-blind, as in the case of Helen Keller, gives her the honor not only of prominence as an educator of defectives, but also of inventing a very new and valuable method of instruction.  The methods of teaching defectives are the wonder of educators, and will probably be effective of marvelous results in the near future.  The highest praise must also be bestowed upon the work of Mrs. Shaw and Miss Fisher, of Boston, and of Mrs. Putnam and Mary McCullough, as the promoters of kindergarten work.  Kindergarten work is self-eloquent.

Credit is due woman for her conception of the idea of traveling libraries, which have so effectively brought cheer and recreation, and even reform, to many restricted lives.  The libraries of the Colonial Dames and everything along the line of reading circles, literary clubs, etc., have had their inception in the brains of women.  Traveling libraries have been a boon to many a small town.  Though it is impossible to digress in woman’s work in the industries, the Newcomb Pottery, made at the Sophia Newcomb College, Louisiana, should be mentioned, all of which is done by women educated at that school of design.

I commend the ample and reliable literature on all these subjects, as a better source of information on the merits of these inventions that can be shown in this brief report.  But most of women’s work in the educational section, the school work, art work, etc., was an improvement along already existing lines.  But along household and economic lines women, during the last ten years, have done original thinking and much investigation.  And the studies in sanitary chemistry, the attainments as a scholar and scientist of Mrs. Ellen C. Richards, Vassar, 1870, stand out conspicuously, having won for her the respect of the world.

The question of the value of the product or process, as measured by its usefulness or beneficent influence on mankind, is so vast that a flood of answers sweep over one, embracing the whole field of women’s usefulness and the whole realm of education.  The usefulness of the discovery of radium has scarcely been estimated as yet, nor has the beneficent influence of teaching defectives,