leaning on any seeming staff.  Women are the originators, the creators of spiritual and material progress, and must not be fearful in expressing themselves.  The female mind is more refined, more delicate, thus receiving truer perceptions than man’s.  The sensitiveness of the woman nature is of much advantage in any artistic endeavor.

The fine arts, music, poetry, painting, and sculpture, have been the educators of nations.  Now that woman’s thought is finding greater expression, their mental and moral influence on both sexes will be great; and as such expositions are world-wide educators, the beneficent influence of women as coworkers and practical idealists is above and beyond computation as a proper exposition attraction.  It was a great surprise to the millions of people who saw the excellence of talent that was shown by the women artists, and the fact that women did it elevated the sentiment and appreciation of art.  Indeed, without the work of women officially organized, and as individuals, it could not have reached, as it did, the height of success.

Group 12, Miss Rose Weld, Newport News, Va., Juror.

Under the group heading “Architecture” the four classes into which it was divided represented:  Drawings, models, and photographs of completed buildings.  Designs and projects of buildings. (Designs other than of architectural or constructive engineering.) Drawings, models, and photographs of artistic architectural details.  Mosaics; leaded and Mosaic glass.

It is unfortunate that in this department the extent in which women share in the kind of work represented in this group was not demonstrated.  While there are not many women architects of buildings as yet, it is believed that the number is rapidly increasing, and within the past ten years it has been discovered that their aptitude for designing and working in leaded glass is of the highest, their artistic tendencies rendering them peculiarly adapted to this kind of work.

Miss Weld reports as follows: 

In this department there were only two women exhibitors, both Americans.  The English and French exhibits were not open for competition, but, so far as I could find out, there were no exhibits by women from either of these countries.

    One of the American women exhibited as an architect some
    attractive plans and interior views for a farmhouse.  The other,
    as a landscape architect, some photos of garden scenes.

    This last exhibit was the more striking of the two, as it showed
    that in the last few years women had made inroad into another
    profession hitherto left to the men.