Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition

EPILOGUE. w U HAT shall the harvest be ? ” This question must have occurred, sooner or later, to each of the many women who have given their time, their thought, their work, to the rearing of our woman’s temple. The Algerian maiden, whose white banner was laid upon the desk on the opening day, is one of the myriads of women whose thought and sympathy have traveled to us along the slender, im- perishable line of the thought railway. Our building is like the ter- minal station of a vast city, where the iron rails come together from the north, south, east, and west. The freight that our rail- way has brought is very precious, and it is because we recognize the value of what has been sent to us that the idea has arisen and gradually taken form of a granary in which to store the golden fruit, the har- FIRE SCREEN. Designed by Marianne Fürst, Teacher in the Vienna vest of the careful sow- school of art embroidery. , Made by Hermine Walte. Austria. mg and glad, reaping. The real result of the great labor can not be written in words or computed in figures. Thought outweighs brute force, wealth, art itself; and we are to-day governed by the thoughts of individ- (283)