CURIOUS PEOPLE. 
7 
On the limited space allowed to represent the 
Plains that stretch eastward from that elevated 
chain were huge buffaloes, elk, antelope and their 
native neighbors. The attitudes and surround- 
ings of all were so artistic and unique as to form 
an attraction even among the many fascinations 
of the century's gathered productions. 
As the landscape was designed and made, the 
animals procured, stuffed and arranged upon it, 
by a woman, Mrs. M. A. Maxwell, the words 
“Woman's Work" were printed on a card sus- 
pended near the cave. It was this which called 
forth the exclamation we first mentioned. 
From the opening of the Exhibition gates in 
the morning until darkness made sight-seeing 
impossible, thousands of people pushed and 
crowded and jammed and jostled each other 
against the railing of that mimic landscape. 
The idea of facing so many was at first not a 
little terrifying, but I fortified my courage with 
the thought of relieving Mrs. Maxwell, and that 
the American people are usually so polite, the 
task could not be a very unpleasant one. Alas ! 
I had never measured their capacity for asking 
questions ! 
I had not finished assuring the large fat man 
in the white hat that I was by no means the per- 
son who had performed the work he saw before 
him, when the tall woman in the linen duster, and 
