SEMI- TRO PIC CA LI FORK I A. 
WOMAN'S WORK IN THE PAVILION. 
Edi roii Si’.mx-ThoWC: The sign " Lndioe' 
Department" at tlio left of I lie main en¬ 
trance 1 ».V no means indicated the only 
jiluoe where woman'* work wan fu-cn in the 
pavilion. California is pre-eminently n 
woman's country, null innumerable light 
find profitable iudusl lies auggested llmiti- 
boIvos to every thoughtful observer of the 
display in the hoilicUltital hull It lift” 
been suid that women work hard in Cnli- 
fovuia. This is unquestionably true; in¬ 
telligent men and women thu world over 
are busy, and the Golden State is notmven 
of indolenee. Even idleness, in all places 
and among nil classes, is constantly in 
search of employment; women of fashion 
paint plaques and tileH, or embroider 
screens and weave luces, and certainly il 
one might choose between raisin-malting 
on a vine clad hillside under a perfect shy. 
and following the wealth mol fashion of 
an Eastern city into the stilling heat of s 
pottery, there to design and mold the 
obedient clay, in their devotion to fainter, 
health and comfort nt least would urge 
the former. 
We find the women of California apiarists, 
floriculturists, raisin-makers, growers of 
Binull fruits, and managers of orchards ami 
poultry farms. To these employments are 
added the dairy interests, and the callings 
open to women everywhere, and yet the 
Held of woman's work is almost unex¬ 
plored. 
The manufacture of perfumes from 
flowers promises to furnish suitable and 
pleasant occupation for many women. 
Wo were sorry not to learn more of the 
bogiuuingof this industry in Santa Barbara 
county through tlm medium of the exposi¬ 
tion. It is a fact well known to hottse- 
lcce|iers, that jellies and mai iimlndcs are 
not to be found in any western grocer's 
stock, The preparations so labeled are 
destitute of flavor and rich in gelatine; the 
wrapper once lost, they remain, like I'oo's 
raven, “ Nameless lu re for evermore." 
To any woman or company of women who 
will place a good article of actual lioinu- 
mado jams and jellies on the nmrket. there 
is a certainly of profitable iC'lui'JH. Guavn 
jolly and orange marmalade lumuuuud a 
Jigji price in Europe and America, ami ox- 
luriments in this line urn ub icily in (bo 
muds of women, Mfca HilnkleySt display 
of candied fruit was full id angge aliinis to 
llu* industrious, and indeed the entire ex¬ 
hibition in this line testifies that mi encr- 
gotie woman of skill and small capital I 
might form tlio nucleus of an industry 
in Southern California, w hich would afford 
occupation for numbers of her own sex, 
and prove a source of profit to the Origina¬ 
tor, Such establishments stand on a 
firmer basis when grown from small begin¬ 
nings, and it is the universal experience 
that an honest article well mado, uveu at a 
high price, will eventually crowd out imi- 
tations, Fruit prepared in various econo- 
mienl (?) ways, and unfit for immediate 
table use, are in the end most expensive, 
as every housewife knows. C. G. 
HORTICULTURAL FAIR. 
The exhibit of temperate zone fruits at 
the Horticultural Pavilion, as a whole, 
would do honor to any of the noted fruit. 
States of tlm Union, while tbo grope die 
play, though by no means so complete ns 
it might have been, is such as to excite the 
astonishment of visitors from the Eaxl 
Canned fruits, cheeses, lmttcr, and other 
homely horticultural and agricultural prod¬ 
ucts, allow up handsomely. The speci¬ 
mens of tall corn, of big squashes and 
beets, of mammoth quinces, and othv 
PRESIDENT HAYES AT THE FAIR. 
The words of J. De Barth Sliorb, in in¬ 
troducing the President, were so impres¬ 
sive and elegant that we give them in full 
below: 
Ladies and Gentlemen: In introducing 
to you the illusti ions goes! "f thin occasion, 
it. gives me great p|en«iuc to pay to him 
personally tlnxl tribute of respect he ao 
richly de'-erves from us all From tlio 
time of Washington down, no presiding 
officer of these United States hfl* shown so 
Ingh a regard nn l just appreciation of that 
which baa nmdp our common country groat 
and glorious; I moan lev agricultural in¬ 
terest*. I hope, Mr. President that in 
the coming years your surees-nix in this 
high otBce may emulate tlio example which 
\uu have so worthily set them. I therefore. 
kitchen garden vegetables nuil fruits, are w, th great pleasure, present to yon the 
very superior, and show very plainly what President- of the United Slates- the friend 
a commanding position Los Angelos Conn- °f tho American funnel, Rutherford B. 
ty mid Soutlui 11 California nre destined to Hayes, of Ohio, 
attain ns producers, leaving their citrus 
specialties uud semi tropical fruits out of 
tlio question. Wo expect, before naotbei 
lmlf dozen yearn hare rolled mound, to or 
an exposition of the dairy products of this 
county which will excite the respectful con¬ 
sideration, perhaps tho envy, of the cheese 
men of Goshen. On the whole, we feel 
like demanding n supplemental citrus fair, 
to he dedicated to oranges, b limits, limes, 
pomegranates, bmiulia*. and tlm other 
fruits in which this section has no com- 
VENTURA. 
Our northern neighlmr, Ventura county, 
is not ns well known as it will lie in the 
near future It is a land of orchards and 
grain fields, coin lands and xiiieynrds, 
brooks and springs of the dearest and pur¬ 
est water to he found in Southern Califor¬ 
nia, nml oil wells which an* inexhaustible. 
From one of tlm thriving little vnllevB in 
this magnificent county, there came an ex¬ 
hibit to our fair, which does credit t«> Vcu- 
tnm an a dairy country. Mcmis. Kellogg 
petit or on the Pacific Const within tlm 
limits of the United States. Such a fair - 
could he held in the eailv spring, w ln-u tlm and Sewell -'»t. down mnm ■ Llm finest 
oranges are at their ripest,and tlio spcdi- •■hc'sc w« bav« ' \er set oar ey< % upon. It 
cle would be memorable for the exquisite in «nci v respect first 
ornnmeutation that urmigo boughs and 
pomegranate blossoms would admit of. A 
scene of enebnul nmnt, equal to mivlhii 
in tlm Arabian Nights, could then be easily 
evolved. But, iw it is, we ura very well 
satisfied. Thu exposition has realized tile 
expectations of the most exuding. It ha* 
t, first cdaM, and is, we 
trust, tlm pioneer of many mote to ho es¬ 
tablished in tin- little comity which is so 
amply iililii to furnish material for many 
more such enterprises. 
Tustin Cm sent the largest pumpkin to 
the fair — weight, 'ill pounds. It came 
shown that we have made tremendous ad- i lt »m the ranch of Mr 11. K Snow, n gen- 
vaners in the cultivation of the more home j tlcmau through whoso enterprise we were 
y fuvni products, nml it has demonstrated indebted for tin inaguUieeut. display of 
tlmt our farmers arc fust reaching a stn 
at which they need envy no other husband¬ 
men on earth, ” Excelsior ” has been and 
will continue to lie their motto.— Lun An¬ 
gela Herald, 
little settlement. 
fruit, ulo., from that 
Giouop. Wnn.irr's imposing wheat, some- 
linn^ called Gooseneck rye, was much 
noticed Mr Wright raised it in the Azusa, 
■ ml claims for it that it will make more 
grain and double tlm hay to tho ucra 
ridded by any other variety of grain. 
Me exhibited a navel 
» in circumference, and 
p, it would have in- 
ibont 18 inches. 
The heaviest pumpkin of tho fair of 
UsSII was fiom Timlin. It weighed 211 
On. Eimkndoup, of Santa Ana. by his pounds and measured 0 feo^S) inches m 
lino display ot apples, shows that his circumfi rctice- 
loOnlity is adapted to tin* successful cult me yj u j jp y AKL ,.,, f Pi^ulcim. exhibited 
or that fruit. The samples on exhibition ^ f 0 , nl which -' ins to be a 
were admitted by esperls to be fully V( ,l,i ,|.|c invcnri..n, and especially adapted 
to Southern California. 
Mu H, Gon ri ii, of Santa Ann, Ulttiln ftli 
exhibit of grapes at tho exposition, which 
attracted universal attention. They were; 
ol several rare varieties, ami showed that 
Hurt gentleman bus lind much experience 
in viticulture. Mr, Goopper took tlm liist 
premium for tlio best half bushel of white 
potatoes. 
Mr. S. W l'u 
orange, 14 i ilivin'* 
not being near li| 
creased probably to 
experts to be fully 
equal to those raised anyw here else on tin 
const. 
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