FROM THE BALCONY OF THE WOMAN’S BUILDING.—The view afforded from the balcony of the Woman’s Building might have been enjoyed by thousands more than was really the case had the broad floor of that balcony been well supplied with seats. For some reason, however, this was not the case, and the many, who in the shade the building afforded in the afternoon might have sat at ease enjoying the prospect across the lagoons and wooded island, with the National Government and Fisheries and other buildings in the distance, were ordinarily compelled to seek a resting-place elsewhere. In the view presented, the stretch across the lagoons does not appear, but only a slight vista of land and water and the broad façade of the towering Illinois Building with its uncouth dome, described by some as a sausage pinched at the top, and its generally commonplace exterior. The quality of this background, however, does not particularly deteriorate from the general beauty of the scene. The long stretch of balcony, the great vases, the luxuriant foliage clinging about them and showing about the lagoons, together with the little spread of water and the green bank, combine to make a scene which is both picturesque and pleasing. Where this bit of water appears, by the way, was where the army of ducks upon the lagoons were often gathered for their breakfast, when the spectacle presented was as pretty as it was noisy. Had a photograph been taken of the ducks at feeding-time, it would have made a curious picture.