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()n the table for the Fancy Articles, lay a knitted hood belong- 

 ing in the Domestic Department, near was an apron of nice 

 workmanship, which would require twice the time to make, that 

 it would the hood, yet the hood had twice as much awarded, as 

 had the apron. The Fancy Department had not much more 

 than half the money to appropriate as the Domestic Depart- 

 ment. The amount in the hood was none too much. Had the 

 latter been with knitted articles, probably it would have been 

 unnoticed. There should be a department devoted to the work 

 of elderly ladies. Our Fair is not to display alone the gifts of 

 genius, God has given only to the few, but to show what maij be 

 attained by perseverance and continuance in well doing. 



Respectfully submitted, 



EMMA M. C. BATES, ) n -.. 

 SARAH T. BOURNE, f ^o*^^*«««e. 



East Marshfield, November 17, 1883. 



