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circular coupling the names of the Board of "Women Managers with 

 hers in issuing an appeal for funds to carry on the exhibit. Her judg- 

 ment was then questiOTied, as later, when she refused to share the model 

 kitchen in the AVonian's Building with Mrs. Rorer, who had been 

 promised it at certain liours to carry on the Illinois exhibit of corn 

 cookery. Application was made to transfer the exhibit to the Liberal 

 Arts Building, but a reply was telegraphed that a recent (March) decis- 

 ion of the management had prohibited any cooking in the Liberal Arts 

 Building. Ground space was then asked f or^ and after a considerable 

 time it was granted, south of the Anthropological Building. Miss Cor- 

 son expressed herself as entirely satisfied with the situation, as it was 

 near the space devoted to hygiene and sanitation and the Boston 

 exhibit, known as the Bumford Kitchen, and she went to Chicago to 

 establish herself. Meantime, as early as October, Miss Corson asked 

 for a loan to tide over her financial difliculties until her location should 

 become so assured that her appeals to outsiders might have solid basis. 

 She was still hopeful of the final result, and Mrs. Stranahan brought the 

 matter of a loan before the executive committee, with the effect that Miss 

 Corson was requested to state what she would need. She replied, ask- 

 ing for $1,000, payable at the end of five months. Later, when it was 

 learned that a portable house would be needed in which to make the 

 exhibit, the executive committee took action to make the $1,000 loan to 

 Miss Corson a permanent appropriation to cover the expense of the house. 

 While the board was in no way bound to aid Miss Corson, because of 

 her early statement that such aid was unnecessary, it felt some respon- 

 sibility for the exhibit as it was announced as a New York State 

 exhibit, and the board desired also to show its loyalty to Mrs. Strana- 

 han on account of her untiring efforts to make it a success. Indeed, 

 the acceptance by the board of the public-spirited and generous propo- 

 sition of Miss Corson to require no appropriation from the State for 

 her exhibit, gave to the board the necessity of accepting results with- 

 out full exercise of judgment. 



It was not from lack of interest or from neglect that the cooking 

 school resulted in much less than had been noped for and indeed 

 expected. In making the admission the board desires not to blame Miss 

 Corson, but to attribute her failure to her deplorable state of ill-health. 



In the management of this exhibit allowance must also be made for 

 the absence of a cooking school, properly so called, with demonstration 

 lessons, on account of the difi&culty of forming a class for instruction 

 and holding it long enough for it to receive the lessons because of the 

 hastening of visitors from exhibit to exhibit. This flitting tendency 

 was both proven and obviated in the exhibits in the Children's Building 

 by locking the doors against ogress during exercises. In the one other 

 cooking school in which demonstration lessons were given, except the 

 exhibit in corn cookery, the class for stated hours of instruction was 

 secured from residents of Chicago. Miss Corson's ability was recog- 

 nized by her appointment to the distinguished service of judging the 

 food exhibits. She also received an award for " demonstrations in 

 hygienic dietetics, the medical properties of foods and the operations 

 of cHemieal and economic household science." 



