WOMEN'S WORK AT THE FRANCO BRITISH EXHIBITION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 11

WOMEN'S WORK AT THE FRANCO BRITISH EXHIBITION.

While on© of the many dazzling palacee in tho new exhibition city at Shepherd's Bush is devoted to the representation of -women's work, there may bo found in all parts signs of women's co-operation in the main activities of the age. Notably is this the case in tho educational section (says the "Queen"), where njany colleges and schools are showing what is being done to further tho education of women in its elementary, technical, professional, or academic branches. Newnham Collego, for example, has a striking, exhibit in the form of copies of tho chief works produced by-its teachers, Fellows, and students. Hero will bo seen copies of tho works of Miss Jane Harrison, the classical archaeologist, tho-late Miss Mary Bateson, the historian, and others of those who have owed to'the Cambridge College tho stimulus and encouragement which started them upon their life's work. Girton Collego offers a no less interesting exhibition of tho achievements of its members. HOSPITAL WORK. It is right that one of the most important professions staffed by women should be sjjecially noticed in the women's section, and it is cortain that the two stalls occupied by the London Hospital will attract a lingo amount of attention. In the one the marvels of the X-rays aro displayed; the other shows tho principal features of a modern hospital ward. The beds are complete in every detail; even .to.'having the model of a patient insido one of them. This model illustrates the use. of the Bloxam cradle for holding a ,broken leg in position.. .Over tho beds aro diet charts, and pulley chains whereby the patient can raise himself.' There is a table for anaesthetics; another for surgical dressings; in a case lie indiarubber surgical gloves; and a machine is near by that enables the surgeon to draw the gloves over the hands. An electric steriliser is not forgotten, and there aro copper hot-water bottles of approved shape. ' SELF HELP. Tho handicrafts aro represented in many forms. The Home Arts and Industries Association of Southampton makes a special display of what is being effected through its

A COAT AND SKIRT.

The costume illustrated shows the newest kind of coat, having long points, and edged with embroidery on velvet. hem.

"Self-Help Industrial Movement." The society recognises "the urgent need for providing means for - casual labourers, widows, and single women to supplement the means derived from their intermittent; employment," and to meet this need it is teaching people to make various articles, for which it'finds a sale through local firms and otherwise. Art metal work, and toy-making are among the industries chosen... . The Royal School of Art Needlework still holds its place ■of pre-eminence where embroideries on a grand scale are concerned. The walls of its section are hung with somo superb needle pictures in the Burne-Jones style, and the celebrated school. shows specimens of its work iu various forms. Miss Emily Barnes has a well-stocked stall of lace, and finelywrought horn workj and enamels are' easily recognisable as Mrs. _Dick's work. Miss Olive St. John exhibits a few instances of her lovely dress embroideriesj ribbon , work, and artificial flowers, which suggest certain blossoms without pretending to copy them with formal exactitude. The Studio, Artillery Mansions, is to the fore with proofs of its sound teaching in dress cutting, millinery, and .flower-making. And as days go by and the treasures are brought, out of packing cases in which Jast .week they laid hid, there will came to view products of 'the brain and hand which will testify to the manifold powers of women. Ono of the most' practically useful of the sections will probably bo the inquiry offioe, at .which inquirers may obtain information concerning the principal employments, for educated women in Englaijd, and also about the work of the leading women's organisations and societies. Tlijs inquiry office, which should bo specially serviceable to foreign visitors, is under the management of tho Central Bureau for the Employment of Women.