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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT. 



We think a few words will suffice for report on Children's 

 Department. Indeed, there seems to be little that need be said. 

 We have tried in former reports to give words of encourage- 

 ment, and to suggest ways of working, which, if acted upon, 

 must have added variety and attractiveness to the children's 

 table, and we hoped this year for better things from the chil- 

 dren, but were disappointed to find only about forty articles 

 from twenty-five contributors ; and of these the greater num- 

 ber were from Duxbury, so that the children's table this year 

 seemed to belong to the Duxbury children rather than to those 

 of our own town. 



Looking over former reports we find this to be a smaller 

 number than at any previous Fair, and we conclude that in this 

 fast age the children are so hurried with school-work and play 

 that they have no time to work for Agricultural Fairs, not even 

 for their own special Department. 



The work brought was of fair quality, none, perhaps, so very 

 nice, and none so poor, certainly, as is sometimes seen. 



Your Committee thought the work of Miss Addie Williamson 

 deserving of special mention, than which none nicer was seen 

 on the table, and some work done by younger girls showed that 

 when they are two or three years older they may do as well. 



We were pleased with the two pairs of dolls' stockings, 

 brought by little Martie Churchill, and also with the doll's work 

 done by Amy Bates. 



