A-showin', plain as nobody less gifted than she could, jest how primitive wimmen used to be.
Opposite, on the south side, is a companion piece by Miss Cassette, of Paris, called Modern Wimmen, and a-showin' up first rate how fur wimmen have emerged from the shadders of the past.
The centre panel depicters a orchard covered with bright green grass, and graceful female wimmen a-gatherin' apples offen the tree.
Apples of knowledge, I spoze, but different from Eve's--fur different; these wuz peaceful Knowledge, Literature, Art, and all beautiful and useful industries.
A smaller panel describes Music and Dancin' in a charmin' way.
On the other side of the central panel are several maidens pursuin' a flyin' figger.
Mebby it wuz the Ideal.

If it wuz, I wuz glad to see them young females a-follerin' it up so clost.

But girls will be more apt to catch her, when they leave off cossets, and long trains, and high-heeled shoes (metafor).

But these seemed to be a-doin' the best they could, anyway.
A border in rich colors went all round the picture, and in the corners wuz medallions all full of sweet babies--perfect cherubs of loveliness.
In some things the picture mebby could have been bettered a little--mebby the ladder wuzn't quite stiddy enough--mebby I should ruther have not clumb up it.

But the colorin' of the picture is superb.
So rich and gorgus that it put me in mind of our own Jonesville woods in September, when you look off into the maple forests, and your eyes would fairly be dazzled with the blaze of the colors, if they wuzn't so soft and rich, and blended into each other so perfect.
Yes, Miss Cassette done real well, and so did Mrs.MacMonnies, too.
And all round this room hung pictures that filled me with delight, and the proudest kind of pride, to think my own sect had done 'em all--had branched out into such noble and beautiful branchin's, for the statutes wuz jest as impressive as the pictures.