In group 53 there was nothing unusual displayed that would lead
    one to think that women were more capable of executing more
    advanced work than they accomplished eleven years ago.

In the Louisiana Purchase Exposition woman’s work was installed in such a manner and not being specified, one could not tell where their work began and where it left off.  As to the appreciation of woman’s work, it was taken as a whole and was judged as a work of mankind.  Women’s work and men’s work of to-day would be hard to separate.  Perhaps if women’s work could be brought out more prominently it would be better for them.  No work was displayed in such a manner as to enable one to distinguish between the two.  In the manufacture of personal effects, the larger proportion was women’s work.  No woman received an award in group 53 to my knowledge.

As has been said before, the operation of machines is especially women’s work.  Women were not the inventors, but they displayed ingenuity and skill in the operation—­application.  Although they are not the original inventors, it is a well-known fact that many improvements are women’s suggestions.  Their working at the machines and the ingenuity and taste displayed in the choice of work was of marked value as an exposition attraction.

Group 61.  Various industries connected with clothing (processes and products).—­Class 383, hats; hats of felt, wool, straw, silk; caps, trimmings for hats.  Class 384, artificial flowers for dressing the hair, for dress and for all other uses.  Feathers, millinery, hair:  coiffures, wigs, switches.  Class 385, shirts and underclothing for men, women, and children.  Class 386, hosiery of cotton, wool, silk, and floss silk, etc.; knitted hosiery, cravats, and neckties.  Class 387, corsets and corset fittings.  Class 388, elastic goods, suspenders, garters, belts.  Class 389, canes, whips, riding whips, sunshades, parasols, umbrellas.  Class 390, buttons; buttons of china, metal, cloth, silk, mother-of-pearl or other shell, ivory, nut, horn, bone, papier-mache, etc.  Class 391, buckles, eyelets, hooks and eyes, pins, needles, etc.  Class 392, fans and hand screens.

Owing to Mr. Farmer being called to his home, Mrs. Ella E. Lane Bowes, secretary of group 53, served as secretary of group 61 also.  Group 61 was composed of 11 individuals, 7 men and 4 women, with an American for chairman and a Frenchman for secretary, and two vice-chairmen.

    Group 61 contained 30 classes.  Within this group there was no
    especial exhibit by women, although their work stood out in
    prominence.