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little prize money and be sure that they get a blue, red or yellow ribbon, 

 whatever you happen to select in the color line, they will be very well 

 satisfied. This premium list must be made out carefully. The list that 

 I looked at should be revised. Sometimes you know we pretend to please 

 you men. You men are not capable of fixing up this premium list. You 

 think you may be, but you are not. Not any more than I would be to 

 judge stock and poultry. I don't know very much about that. You don't 

 know very much about a premium list for women's work. We want to 

 have that definitely classified. You insist on having your premium list 

 definitely classified and you are going to save a lot of trouble at the end 

 because you are going to know whether or not this one article is suitable 

 for this class or not suitable for it. It is going to help the judges a lot 

 when they come to judging. I can speak from experience on that point. 

 Classify them carefully and you should have your classes definitely defined 

 and there will be no falling down. The reason you fall down is this, you 

 have somebody entering an article she thinks capable of taking a prize, 

 she enters it and you haven't any class made for it to put it in this class 

 or put it in the other class, and then when the judge comes to judging it 

 is almost impossible to do justice to the exhibit because you have articles 

 checked in that don't belong there. Then you must have a capable lady 

 to enter these things. She must know what is not fit to be entered but 

 at the same time not cause any trouble, and yet your standards will be 

 raised — you can't make them mad because they won't come back but we 

 have to sort of just pat them the right way. The "other than named" 

 that is a class, — I remember I judged once, I had everything in it from 

 a collar and cuff set to a dress and from a baby's cap to a bed quilt. If 

 you can see any points of similarity to judge on you can do better than 

 I do, I could not; it is just by guess and by gosh and mostly by gosh. 



Another thing, you want to be careful that you stand pat in all your 

 decisions. If you go to work and work out these things stay by it. If 

 you don't it is all going to be work lost when you come right down to the 

 end of the fair if they are going to do things other than you had planned. 

 Having made out this list carefully defined make it stand until the fair 

 is over and there won't be any trouble. About judging, lots of people 

 think in the ladies' work you should have two judges work together. That 

 is a matter of personal opinion, however. One competent person can do 

 it very nicely. I think in your premium lists if you describe the articles, 

 the different names in describing these different things, it is going to help 

 the fair. They know the material then and they are going to bring it in, 

 just the same as they do with the cattle and horses. Women work right 

 along with the men on the same basis and all for the same purpose of 

 raising the standards in their work. 



Then the educational work is a very important thing. You are never 

 too old to learn. That is the spirit women have, I don't know whether 

 men have the same spirit or not, and if we can just do some educational 

 work along with the fair maybe somebody else's husband who wants to go 

 to the horse races and the wife would not think of going, she will go and 

 spend her time with the exhibits and perhaps the educational work and 

 different attractions will do so well they will come back the second day. 



