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Samantha at the World’s Fair

CHAPTER X
13/32

Sometimes I'd felt real riz up a-thinkin' they had, and then agin I've felt dubersome.
But I knew they had gin great enjoyment, I'd hearn on't.

Why, the minister up to Zoar had told me of as many as seven relations of hisen, who, when they wuz run down and weak, and had kinder lost their minds, had jest clung to them books.
In softenin' of the brain now, or bein' kicked on the head, or nateral brain weakness--why, them books are invaluable, so I spoze.
But to resoom.

The corner pavilion, like all the rest of the buildin', have each a open colonade above the main cornice.

Here are the hangin' gardens, and also the committee rooms of the lady managers.
This palace of beauty wuz designed by a woman--woman has got to have the credit for everything about it.
A woman designed the hull buildin'; a woman modelled the figgers that support the ruff; a woman won fairly in competition the right to decorate the cornice.

The interior decoration, much of it carved work, is done by wimmen; panels wuz carved by wimmen all over the country and brought here to decorate the walls.
And not only decorated, but in a good many rooms the woodwork wuz finished by wimmen.


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