Editorial September 13, 1900 Issue

The New Hampshire Fair

Editor

The results of the New Hampshire policy of "expansion," a leading exponent of which is the able chief executive of that state, Hon. Frank W. Rollins, were made conspicuously manifest in the success attending the Annual State Fair held last week at Concord. It was, by common consent, the best Fair the old Granite State has ever had, and, in all its aspects, bore favorable comparison with any similar event in any state. The exhibits, as a whole, were of the first order, many of the paintings and pictures, as well as the large variety of household handiwork, such as fine needle-work (the old-fashioned patchwork quilts of our grandmothers being among the most attractive), and innumerable other articles of domestic virtu, having been donated for the occasion by the patriotic citizens of Concord and other places in the state.

The exhibit of stock was most creditable, an interesting feature of which was the large number of sleek and power ful oxen.

The daily balloon ascensions, as a rule, were successful and interesting, while the high diving was thrilling in its novelty. The artist — for such in his role he surely was — performed the feat of leaping from an eighty-foot tower into a pool of water only five feet in depth and of small circumference. The pose, during the swift descent, was graceful in the extreme, and to the Christian Scientists present, and no doubt to others, furnished a striking example of the dominion of mind over matter in consequence of the absence or overcoming of fear.

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