WHEREAS no provisions have, as yet, been made by the World's Columbian Exposition Commission for securing exhibits from the colore...d women of this country, or the giving of representation to them in such Fair, and WHEREAS under the present arrangement and classification of exhibits, it would be impossible for visitors to the Exposition to know and distinguish the exhibits and handiwork of the colored women from those of the Anglo- Saxons, and because of this the honor, fame and credit for all meritorious exhibits, though made by our race, would not duly be given us ... RESOLVED that for the purpose of demonstrating the progress of the colored women since emancipation and of showing to those who are yet doubters, and there are many, that the colored women ... are making rapid strides in art, science and manufacturing, and of furnishing to all information as to ... what the race has done, is doing and might do, in every department of life, that we, the colored women of Chicago request the Columbian Commission to establish an office for a colored woman whose duty it shall be to collect exhibits from the colored women of America ... [ellipses in source]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every woman who visited the Fair made it the center of her orbit. Here was a structure designed by a woman, decorated by women, ma...naged by women, filled with the work of women. Thousands discovered women were not only doing something, but had been working seriously for many generations ... [ellipsis in source] Many of the exhibits were admirable, but if others failed to satisfy experts, what of it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.... They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then, a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big, manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange, eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white, For all those rosy ornaments in thee.... Thou art not sweet, though made of mere delightLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;... But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fair, rich, and young: how rare is her perfection, Were it not mingled with one foul infection!... I mean, so proud a heart, so curst a tongue, As makes her seem nor fair, nor rich, nor young.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep,... Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell me no more how fair she is, I have no minde to hear... The story of that distant bliss I never shall come near: By sad experience I have found That her perfection is my wound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace,... Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works for its living, And a child that's born on the Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good and gay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »