another on this subject:  “It is now a well-established fact that women most effectively supplement the best interests and the furthering of the highest aims of all government by their numberless charitable, reformatory, educational, and other beneficent institutions which she has had the courage and the ideality to establish for the alleviation of suffering, for the correction of many forms of social injustice and neglect, and these institutions exert a strong and steady influence for good, an influence which tends to decrease vice, to make useful citizens of the helpless or depraved, to elevate the standard of morality, and to increase the sum of human happiness.”

Department P, Physical Culture, J.E.  Sullivan, Chief; Miss Clara
Hellwig, Plainfield, N.J., Department Juror.

This department comprised 3 groups and 6 classes, the group headings being:  Training of the child and adult-theory and practice; Games and sports for children and adults; Equipment for games and sports.

    Unfortunately Miss Hellwig was abroad and did not receive
    notification in time to reach St. Louis for the jury work.

Superior Jury.

Mrs. Philip N. Moore, of St. Louis, Mo., was appointed to represent the board of lady managers on the superior jury, and in a general resume of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Mrs. Moore says: 

If the organization of a world’s exposition begins years before its doors open, if public opinion changes in a decade, it may be well, before summing up the work of women at St. Louis, to look first at the record of achievement from Chicago in 1893 through Atlanta, Nashville, Omaha, Paris, and Buffalo, all of which led gradually to the high plane upon which we now stand.

Segregation of the sexes was the limited understanding of most of those in charge of former expositions.  Not for a moment would I imply by this statement that there was a desire to give the work of women a lower grade than that of men; rather was it the mistaken idea of drawing attention to it, as something better and apart.  By this very means there was often a serious and hurtful comparison, since many women with undoubted ability would not thus place their exhibits.  It implied that in the special group, where exhibit was made, woman’s mind differed from that of man’s to the extent that there was also a difference in the result.

We owe sincere thanks to the progressive men in charge of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, that they listened with intelligent appreciation to the plea from women for equal representation, wherever their work was found worthy.

    There is no mistaking the dignified effect of this edict, and
    only the best in various lines gained admission to the exhibit
    palaces.