California has a room walled and ceiled with redwood by wimmen.
And wimmen of all the States, from Maine and Florida, have joined to make the place beautiful.

Even the Indian wimmen made richly embroidered hangin's for the doors and windows.
The wimmen managers wuz the first wimmen that wuz ever officially commissioned by Congress, and never have wimmen swung out so, or, to be poetical, never have they cut so wide and broad a swath on the seedy old fields of Time, as they do to this Fair.

They can exhibit with the best of the contestants, men or wimmen, and by act of Congress represent their own sect on the Jury of Award.
Congress did the fair thing by wimmen in this matter.

Let him step up one step higher on the hill of justice, and gin 'em the right to set on the jury of award or punishment when their own honor is at the stake.
It has let wimmen tell which is the best piece of woosted work, or tattin'; now let her be judged by her peers when life or death is the award meted out to 'em.

But to resoom.
The Gallery of Honor is the centre hall of the buildin', and runs almost the entire length, and openin' out of it is the display that shows that wimmen wuz really the first inventors and producers of what wuz useful as well as beautiful, and that men took up the work when money could be made from it.
Here is the work of the first and rudest people, but all made by female wimmen--the rough, hard buds of beauty and labor; and in the Central hall, like these buds open in full bloom and beauty, is the fruit of the most advanced thought and genius.
The interior glows with soft and harmonious colors, and chaste ornamentation.
Mrs.Candace Wheeler, of New York, had charge of the decoration, which is sayin' enough for its beauty, if you didn't say anything else, and Illinois and the rest of the world wuz grand helpers in the work of beauty.
The Gallery of Honor, the central hall of the buildin', runs almost the entire length.