Wilson, Elmwood, Ill.; vice-chairman, Charles E. Moore, Brockton, Mass.; secretary, Ella E. Lane Bowes, Chicago, Ill.; Mary G. Harrow, Ottumwa, Iowa; Mathilda Ripberger, Dresden, Germany.  Group 61:  Chairman, John Sheville Capper, Chicago, Ill.; secretary, M. Blum, Paris, France; M. Mouilbeau, Paris, France; Eugene Leonard, Paris, France; Fred L. Rossback, Chicago, Ill.; W.E.  McClelland, New York City; M. Magai, Japan; Nellie Saxton, Brazil; Celia Nelson, Philadelphia, Pa.; Ella E. Lane Bowes, Chicago, Ill.

    Group 53.—­Group 53 was composed of two men and two women
    jurors, viz, the chairman and vice-chairman, men; the secretary,
    the writer, an American, and a German woman.

Group 53 was composed of equipments, processes, etc.  Class 326, common implements used in needlework.  Class 327, machines for cutting clothes, skirts, and leathers.  Class 328, machines for sewing, stitching, hemming, embroidering.  Class 329, machines for making buttonholes; for sewing gloves, leather, boots and shoes, etc.; plaiting straw for hats.  Class 330, tailors’ geese and flatirons.  Class 331, busts and figures for trying on garments.  Class 332, machines for preparing separate parts of boots and shoes (stamping, molding, etc).  Class 333, machines for lasting, pegging, screwing, nailing.  Class 334, machines for making hats of straw, felt, etc.

    In this group of nine classes there was no distinctive exhibits
    by women, but the outcome of their skillful labor on the
    wonderful machines was purely their own and well displayed.

    The most practical exhibit of woman’s work was the finished
    product of sewing machines in the United States and Great
    Britain sections.

    The Singer sewing machine exhibit furnished the best display in
    the group.  The work was very fine in detail, done by skilled
    artisans.

    Among the work in the homely arts were shoes, corsets,
    underwear, and skillful darning.  The manufacture of these useful
    articles proved interesting.

In the beauty arts was displayed embroideries and fancy monograms, a skilled workman demonstrating a machine that would produce twelve monograms at one time in elaborate embroidery; in fact, the machines seemed as human as the workers themselves; although they were not talkers, they were “Singers.”

Among the notable exhibits in this group was the attractive display of paper patterns.  The Butterick Pattern Company exhibited on life-size wax figures the evolution of dress during the past one hundred years, true to the fashions of each decade in style, color of dress, and bonnet.

The McCall Company’s exhibit consisted of life-size wax figures attired in paper patterns, up to date in all the idiosyncracies demanded by fashion, an educational feature in this line of