opportunity for organizations to participate in that international congress.  There you come in as individuals; but man or woman if they are great will be invited.  It is all one congress; it will only last one week.  We have not selected the exact date.  It occupies a week; it is divided into sections.  Some days in the Congressional Hall there may be 25 or 30 sections all working at the same time on different subjects.  It is a magnificent programme.  Meetings of these stated organizations are entirely different.  The only point about meetings of these clubs and organizations is that, whether they are officered by men or women, or both, some one in behalf of the exposition must make their way as easy as possible for them and see that days do not collide.”

A member of the committee made the request that some provision should be made for the care of trained nurses at the exposition, and Mr. Skiff stated that the War Department was contemplating a field hospital.  “They want two things.  I do not know what the outcome will be.  If you ladies could proceed sufficiently to get these ladies interested in the trained nurse idea—­to offer the services of a certain number of ‘changed’ nurses (you understand, double the number, so that they can change)—­I have no doubt that Doctor Laidley will be glad to avail of their services.”

In answer to the questions as to the time the jurors would be appointed, and whether he had a list of the things on which women are to be appointed, and how long before they would be known, Mr. Skiff replied: 

“The jurors will be appointed the first week of the exposition, and the list of things on which women are to be appointed will depend on whether the work is done in whole or in part by female labor.  We will know as soon as we get a catalogue.  We can not tell what the exhibits will be until they are exhibits.  The pamphlet of classification will be of invaluable assistance to you, ladies, in your work.  The jurors are to be paid $7 a day and traveling expenses.”

    In response to the inquiry whether the board should not begin to
    look out for the women that would be capable for that sort of
    work, Mr. Skiff said: 

“They will develop.  There are 108 classes; a committee on each class would be 1,200 jurors.  We are not working women’s exhibits up any more than men’s.  It takes care of itself.  We do not specially promote, except in this way:  An officer of a department, if he understands his work, is given a classification.  That is his bible.  He makes up his mind what is possible to do in the way of an exhibit.  They build up an exhibit.  In that way they find it necessary to touch what we call ‘individual promotion’ on their broad lines.  For instance, in education, deaf, dumb, and blind; charity, philanthropy, and education of mind; conveyance of thought; social economy, the model city; machinery, that class