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after the hand that made it can clasp ours no more, and 

 becomes very pathetic. The women of "'93" knit vengeance 

 into their red stockings day after day, but our friends have 

 no need for any but noble thoughts as they design their pic- 

 tures, or make articles for friends or home, for they look out 

 on smiling fields, hills, valleys, rocks, or the sea made dear 

 to them by associations, in a free country. It is said, as an 

 excuse for the liberality of our public men, in giving from the 

 Treasury of State or Country, that it is easy to give away " 

 other people's money. 



This Committee, though giving the money of the Society, 

 had to consider that the amount for gratuities had been por- 

 tioned out, so hope that none will think they might have 

 awarded differently. The sixty-five exhibitors of this depart- 

 ment now have the advantage over the farmers, as they need 

 not wait for what another summer may bring forth, and it is 

 hoped that they are already designing and dreaming of more 

 than one hundred and twenty-one beautiful things that shall 

 make the Fair of 1883 far superior to this one. j| 



MARY H. ELLIOTT, ) " 



CARRIE A. RANDALL, y GommiUee. 

 MRS. LYDIA G. YINAL, 



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