one was constrained to note that the female members of an artist’s family were frequently represented by work of their own.  One encountered Bruno and Fra Wille, joint designers of rooms, carpets, wall coverings; Professor Behrens’s wife plans a variety of things from costumes to book covering.  There are feminine Hubers, Spindlers, Laengers in the catalogue, showing that the Germans who have been so long reckoned as addicted to the cult of the “Hausfrau” only, are beginning to accord the woman artist due recognition.

It was all the more amazing to find that Germany, the very Germany who, by general verdict, had given the most complete exhibit of household art ever shown at any exposition, who, as I have just pointed out had brought forward its craftswomen in no contemptible role, should all unconsciously furnish the striking, the classical example of the folly of separating the sexes at an exposition.  The “Verein Berliner Kunstlevinnen” made an exhibit of exclusively feminine work, which was as pointedly painful, as conspicuously lacking in force and originality, as confused as to arrangement as have been all the previous displays, where the accentuated feminine was relegated to separate little buildings or separate little corners in buildings.  I saw more than one German artist hustle his American friends past that part of the Varied Industries Building, where abominations of his misguided countrywomen were on view.  And more than one told me that it was a slander on what German women could do.  This only goes to prove that the action of the authorities in charge of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition believed to be the fact:  That the exhibition of woman’s work, apart from men’s, runs to the tawdry, the insignificant, and the unnecessary.  Therefore, separation of the sexes in the display at expositions should not be tolerated.

Department E, Machinery, Mr. Thomas M. Moore, Chief; Miss Edith J. Griswold, New York City, Department Juror.

    This department comprised 5 groups and 35 classes, the group
    headings being:  Steam engines; Various motors; General
    machinery; Machine tools; Arsenal tools.

Miss Griswold says: 

After considerable consideration I almost feel that the least said about women exhibitors in the Machinery Department at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition the better.  The fact is, there were no women exhibitors.  However, in this department the exhibitors were mostly old firms or very large manufacturers, and while women are undoubtedly making their way into mechanics they have not been in the field long enough to have reached a point where their work of a nature to form exposition exhibits can compete with man’s work.  The chief of the Machinery Department and one other member of the jury mentioned a Miss Gleason, who is connected with one of the firms that exhibited, and spoke of her ability in the mechanical line and her knowledge