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house of J. Q-. Adams there delmeated ! How much may the 

 faculties by which order and the beauty of form and color are 

 appreciated, on which so much of human happiness depends, 

 in a family of children, be developed by the correct imitation 

 of a boquet of flowers wrought into a mat on which they play 

 or sleep ! But we forbear to pursue this train of thought further. 



The committee were highly gratified also, by the work of 

 hands which in the last century clothed "their households 

 with scarlet," and for which they made "coverings of tapes- 

 try and fine linen, and clothings of silk and purple" — hands 

 which in early life were "laid to the spindle, did hold the dis- 

 taff" and work the loom — and which yet with astonishing ex- 

 pertness and effect wield the needle and knitting pin. No less 

 admirable were the exhibited work of misses yet in nursery, or 

 but recently escaped therefrom, whose precocious ingenuity al- 

 ready rivals that of those of their sex old enough to be their 

 mothers and grandmothers. They were also gratified to ob- 

 serve an improving taste and artistic skill in the choice of 

 figures and colors — the management of light and shade, and in 

 all that is beautiful in the design and finish of rugs and other 

 articles submitted to their examination. Many articles which 

 added much to the interest of the show, were entered on the 

 morning of the exhibition too late for premiums, according to 

 the rules of the society. Among these were several pieces of 

 beautiful Brussels and Royal Wilton Carpeting, from the fac- 

 tory of Gilbert Tapley, of Tapleyville, Danvers. 



In conclusion, the committee would recommend to the Trus- 

 tees to continue the rule that all articles of manufactures should 

 be entered and placed in the hall on the day previous to the 

 exhibition, sufficiently early for the committees to examine and 

 award the premiums, uninterrupted by visitors — that a small 

 fee for admission be still required, and that in consequence of 

 the revenue thus obtained, more liberal and numerous premi- 

 ums and gratuities be offered and awarded — thus affording 

 greater inducements to the producers in the county to show 

 their best works for the benefit of the community. 



The committee give their best thanks to those ladies who 

 assisted them in the examination of the articles and in the 

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