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of ground, with just double that amount of floor space.

To find the Nebraska Building enter the grounds at the Fifty-seventh street gate and cross the bridge. On the left is a squarely built but handsome structure of the Corinthian order of architecture. West and east it is approached by wide porticos with broad step. Up and down these steps pass every day hundreds of Nebraskans, for the Fair is already proving an irresistible attraction to the citizens of the Western State.

The building is equally devoted to the purpose of an exhibit hall and a club-house. The greater part of each of its two floors is occupied by one room. In the lower a large cereal exhibit is made by the counties. Above the ladies of the State have contributed the greater part of the decoration and exhibits.

Nebraska is indebted more to its ladies than its men for interesting exhibits in its State House. Under the active generalship of Mrs. M. Allen Bock of Omaha, their President, they have brought together a remarkable number of well-chosen and tastefully executed articles. Many of these have gone to the furnishing and decoration of the reception room. In this a cherry mantel-piece, carved by Mrs. Nesbit of Lincoln, Neb., for Pawnee county, is noticeable; also an oak table and a hall-rack, carved by Miss Barbour of the State University, for Norfolk and Seward counties. A curtain that hangs before one door is made of corn-grains, colored and strung, in the pattern of the American flag. A frieze of corn puppies around the room is the work of Mrs. Morey of Hastings.

The best exhibit in the whole building is undoubtedly made by the Nebraska Ceramic Club and a few china-painters outside that organization. Special notice should be taken of a portrait by Mrs. Vance Phillips, and vases by Mrs. J. H. Withers and Mrs. Lund. Mrs. Lombard of Fremont makes an individual exhibit which is remarkably rich in design and coloring. Without doubt the china-work in the Nebraska Building will open the eyes of a great many visitors, who would otherwise scarcely believe that some of the best hand-painted china made in America comes from that State.

of ground, with just double that amount of floor space.

To find the Nebraska Building enter the grounds at the Fifty-seventh street gate and cross the bridge. On the left is a squarely built but handsome structure of the Corinthian order of architecture. West and east it is approached by wide porticos with broad step. Up and down these steps pass every day hundreds of Nebraskans, for the Fair is already proving an irresistible attraction to the citizens of the Western State.

The building is equally devoted to the purpose of an exhibit hall and a club-house. The greater part of each of its two floors is occupied by one room. In the lower a large cereal exhibit is made by the counties. Above the ladies of the State have contributed the greater part of the decoration and exhibits.

Nebraska is indebted more to its ladies than its men for interesting exhibits in its State House. Under the active generalship of Mrs. M. Allen Bock of Omaha, their President, they have brought together a remarkable number of well-chosen and tastefully executed articles. Many of these have gone to the furnishing and decoration of the reception room. In this a cherry mantel-piece, carved by Mrs. Nesbit of Lincoln, Neb., for Pawnee county, is noticeable; also an oak table and a hall-rack, carved by Miss Barbour of the State University, for Norfolk and Seward counties. A curtain that hangs before one door is made of corn-grains, colored and strung, in the pattern of the American flag. A frieze of corn puppies around the room is the work of Mrs. Morey of Hastings.

The best exhibit in the whole building is undoubtedly made by the Nebraska Ceramic Club and a few china-painters outside that organization. Special notice should be taken of a portrait by Mrs. Vance Phillips, and vases by Mrs. J. H. Withers and Mrs. Lund. Mrs. Lombard of Fremont makes an individual exhibit which is remarkably rich in design and coloring. Without doubt the china-work in the Nebraska Building will open the eyes of a great many visitors, who would otherwise scarcely believe that some of the best hand-painted china made in America comes from that State.