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What Miss Nannie H Burroughs is Doing

A GREAT WORK FOR HER SEX

NATIONAL TRAINING SHCOOL

For Women and Workof a Great a Repre-sentative of The Bee Saw Etc

Certainly the most creditable workthat is being done by colored womenany where in the world is at Lincoln Heights in this city Creditable because it is a necessitytable because it is being well donecreditable because it is far reachingcreditable because it was not inspiredby an opportunity to secure educational aid through a beneficient outside gift creditable because it hasfilled a niche in the educational worldthat no other school is filling i

because it shows what the womenof the race can do j

The National Training School situated in the Northeastern section ofthe city on a hill of commanding altitude and unsurpassed beauty on atract of six acres is owned by theWomans Convention Auxiliary tothe National Baptist Convention Theorganization has a large following inevery State in the Union and wemight state in passing that thewomen are not only building a greatinstitution at Lincoln Heights butthey are contributing to African Missions and educating African and otherstudents from foreign countries whoare to return to their homes and engage in mission work

We want to talk to you about thissplendid institution that seems tohave been spoken into existence twoyears ago The grounds that are becoming more beautiful every daywere a waste of weeds and brushLincoln Heights was unknown butmy what a change has come over thewhole community and the establishment of this institution has brought itall about Not a house had beenbuilt on the Hill for quite twenty

and homeseekers were not being attracted to the place but thewhole community is being transform-ed and awakened In a year or twoLincoln Heights will be the mostbeautiful and attractive spot aboutWashington Schools of the rightkind carry with them an inspiringuplifting awakening influence Wemust bear in mind that this is thework of our colored women throughout the country and we doff our hatsto them as they pass on to taketheir rightful places by the side ofwomen of other races

A WOMANS WORK

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You will first be interested whatthey teach at this National

They teach everything thatwomen should know and they teachit thoroughly The thing that impressed the representative of The j

Bee most is that the institution ispresided over by a young womanwho is a product of the schools ofthis city Her wonderful ability asa business woman an organizer ofwomen and a public speaker hasbrought success to every effort undertaken by the organization of whichshe is the corresponding secretaryNothing has failed nothing has lagged everything has moved forwardand that in a hurry

The student body of the Institutionreflects in the main the spirit of thepresident The very atmosphere atthe National Training School ischarged with activity energy perseverance and determination The students reflect these traits in the per-formance of their duties in the classroom and on the campus It is notoften that our young colored womenhave an example of what can be doneby themselves There are twoschools that are operated for coloredwomen and girls but they are

over by members of the otherrace The school at Lincoln Heights-is the only school for our women andgirls presided over by a colored woman Because of the achievements ofthe president of this institution thegirls who are trained there have aconcrete example of how one may

at the bottom and by earnest persistent effort make their way to thetopThis is not the only lesson we learnIn looking over the daily program-we were impressed with the fact that

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the training is practical and broadIt is not an industrial school in

the ordinary sense of the word it isa Vocational Training School thatinsists upon each student takingalong with her life work a thoroughtraining in English It begins withthe primary and carries them throughthe college preparatory Above allit looks well to the moral development of each stuednt The Bible isthe standard classic They have astrong missionary department preparing workers for both home andforeign fields It does model Sundayschool work and then it takes usout into that great big industrialworld and teaches housekeepinghomemaking domestic science plainsewing dressmaking millinery hairdressing manicuring shorthand typewriting and music

Plans are now on foot and appeals-are being made for money with whichto build and equip a laundry toteach laundering

One is impressed on entering theinstitution of the scrupulous cleanliness of every room The floors arebare and are scrubbed oncea week The kitchen gets a dailybath The girls who go from theschool will carry lessons of cleanliness that they have learned so thoroughly that they will apply them intheir own homes

We were impressed too with thefurnishings which are good but verysimple The beds have felt mattresses double sheets are furnishedthey are unbleached but as clean assoap and water can make them Theinstitution furnishes the towels andeach student is allowed as many asshe needs You would wonder howthey take care of the things Arethey lost or destroyed No not onyour life They count follow up collect and distribute so that very littleis lost The students are taught tobe careful and must pay promptly-for all breakage or damage

Are the students careful in theirdress and careful with their persons we asked the lady in charge-If they are not when they come

here they are before they leavethe reply We look after them wefollow them up we examine themfrom head to foot any moment in theday we go through their laundrybags their trunks and it is reallyeasier to keep clean than it is to beannoyed to death Some girls havebeen loose in their habits and we findit necessary to give them much attention but you can put it down in yournote book that they will have to bothtake care of their hair and look neatif they stay on Lincoln Heightssaid the lady in charge And whenwe looked over the student body wesaid to ourselves They are well acquainted with the bath tub and thecomb and brush has done its best onthese heads that looked better to methan any number of heads that I haveseen at one time for many a day

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Well you will want to know some-thing about the buildings When theytook possession two years ago therewas one building with twelve roomsand basement on the grounds Another building with chapel and dormitories was erected and the firstbuilding enlarged and now there isin the course of erection a buildingwith dining hall another chapel dormitories and baths Last term roomswere rented in the community butthe student body has grown so fastthat the president found it necessary-to rent a whole building this instead of rooms here and there

You will want to know next aboutthe students They come from twentynine States the District of Columbia and four are from foreign coun

triesWe were telling you about buildingsand you may think that they haveplenty of room but let me remindyou that standing room is at a premium Every available space istaken and the builders are beingpushed to complete their job so thatthose wno have made application maybe accommodated-

The school is too far out to havethe benefit of the city water supplybut a water system is being installedand the students are to have the benefit of the modern improvementswhich will add greatly to their convenience and comfort

People who help themselves willbe helped Miss Burroughs startedout with the idea that she wantedthe colored women of the country-to pay for the land and to run theschool two years without calling on

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FACULTY IN PART

MISS NANNIE H BURROUGHSPresident of the National Training School for Women and Girls who

will Speak at Bethel Literary Tuesday November 28th

What They Teach at the NationalTraining SchoolI

THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUSTRAINING SCHOOL

Pritchard Returned from a Tour inthe Interest of the School DrShepard to Tour the South Com-ing Ministers Meeting

Durham N C Nov recent meeting of the advisory board ofthe National Religious TrainingSchool was quite an event in this cityIn the afternoon before the boardmeeting an enthusisatic public meeting was held at which time suchprominent characters as Judge PeterC Pritchard United States CircuitCourt Gen Julian S Carr Hon EM Broughton Rev Dr Walter Liggitt pastor First United PresbyterianChurch Ohio and ColJas H Young of Raleigh madeshort but inspiring addresses Theseaddresses were full of optimism andclearly demonstrated the fact that thisunique institution was a great factorin bringing together the leading factors of both race from all sections ofthe country to work for the reaching-of the masses of AfroAmericans andmake this remarkable educationalpropaganda so effective that the negroin Africa will be greatly helped byhis American brother

Judge Pritchard had just returnedfrom a tour in the West ir the interestof the school when he attended themeeting of the board In addressing-the student body and citizens of Durham he emphasized the statementmade by during his recent tour ofthe North in interest of the schoolthat The colored people of NorthCarolina who have been upright intheir dealings circumspect indaily life avoided the bar room and

GREAT MEETING

Distinguished Men Present Judge

other places of dissipation are accorded all the rights to which theyare entitled under the law and possessin the highest degree the confidence-of the white people of that stateIn revealing the absolute necessityfor such an institution as the Nation-al Religious Training School he inpart exclaimed No education addsto the permanent progress of the raceunless it changes the view point ofthe man from a low to the higherplane hence such an education mustbe founded upon truth and moralityThe religiuos education of the negrois intended to change hisof life to give him higher ideals andto make him a better citizen Thereis no conflict between the religiouseducation of the negro and the industrial education nor the higher edu-cation but I believe that a blacksmith who has been given a religiouseducation at the same time he hasbeen given the industrial will addgreatly to the safety and to the happiness of the community to a greaterdegree than he had been educatedsolely for his trade On the onehand you have people who are conscious that they have been trained tomake the world better They begin-it by making their homes better andthey realize that they owe a debt tothe community and they must helpin making of good citizens becausethey realize that God created themfor a purpose and that they can serveHim when they serve their fellowmen On the other hand the manwho his simply not been trained inthis walk of life but trained to workis little higher than a brute and afterthe work is over he adds nothing tothe growth of the community nothing-to the peace of the home nor to theprosperity of the country

The members of the hoard weresurprised at the substantial progressthat the institution was making andhighly commended Dr Shepard for

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crete manner of showing their apprethe work that he is doing A conciation of the great work being doneby President Shepard is exhibited bythe board unanimously voting that acampaign begin at once for an endowment fund of 100000 and themembes attending the meeting ofthe board led by the generous GenCarr subscribing 500 raised by their

subscriptions 3000 Theother subscribers on the board areJudge Jeter S Pritchard Hon N BBroughton Rev Dr Walter Liggitting 300 and was followed by MessrsCol Jas H Young led the coloredcontingent of the board by subscribJohn Merrick C C Spaulding DrsA M Moore J E Deiinger S LWarren Chas H Shepard and ProfPearson

The board authorized PresidentShepard to make a tour of the Southern colleges in January togetting facts at first hand for his i

work In a few days the in-

stitution will send North a mixedquartette of well trained voicesThese are cultured singers and willundoubtedly bring prestige to the i

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The ministers conference which isto meet at the institution for oneweek July 613 inclusive without expense to the ministers while in Durham from present indications will bea oreat event This is an interdenominational affair and seems to meetthe approbation of AfroAmericanministers throughout the country

BOOKER T WASHINGTONWINS

SundaySchool Congress Accepts In-vitation to Meet at Tuskegee June5th to loth 1912 in its Seventh Annual Session

iNashville Tenn Nov a

regular meeting of the Boards whichhave direct charge of the Sundayschool and young peoples work ofthe National Baptist Convention heldin this city it was decided that theseventh annual session of the SundaySchool Congress should meet at Tuskecree Institute Ala thereby accepting from a vast number of invitationsoffered by some of the leading convention cities of the United Statesthe one extended by Dr Booker TWashington principal of TuskegeeNormal and Industrial Institute Atthis meting which was held in theoffice of the secretary of the NationalBaptist Publishing Board and whichwas presided over by Rev J P Robinson D D of Little Rock Ark fullexpressions were made concerning-the great success that has crownedevery meeting of the Congress Movement

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Among the places that have enter-tained the SundaySchool Congressduring the past six years have beenNew Orleans Nashville twice Jacksonville FJa Atlanta Ga andMeriadn Miss but the indications-are that the Tuskegee entertainmentwill be more elaborate and that themeeting will be more largely attendedthan heretofore The time of themeeting has been fixed by the Boards-as the first week in June The meeting is to open on the first Wednes I

day in June remaining in session forsix days which will include Monday-of the following week

Letters and communications werepresented at the Boards meetingshowing the deep interest manifestedthroughout every section of the country in the Congress Movement TheSecretary of the SundaySchool Congress A Boyd presented areport showing that nine hundredeightyone schools wee represent-ed at the Meridian meeting Some ofthese schools were very small butthe interest was as great with themas it was with the large schools Tus

Institute will be a beehive of

Congress workers as they will go toTuskegee from every portion of theUnited States

An Opportunity-

I can start any honest or energeticboy or girl in a pleasant and profitable business if they are willing todo a little work after school hoursFor information write Mr A ItStewart Tuskegee Institute Ala

Ninety churches in this city cooperated with the Religious ForwardMovement by holding a week ofprayer in this city

Important News Happenings-of the Week

By Miss G B Maxfield

That the state of Maryland willfight the report of the commissionappointed by the Supreme Courtwhich recommends that the Statesacrifice thirtysix square miles ofland to West Virginia is consideredcertain

Prof Bernard Fraenkil the notedthroat specialist died last week inBerlin He was consulted ColRoosevelt in May regardingpersistent throat affections which annoyed the American exPresident during his European tour

A reunion of the blue and graytook place November 13 in Petersburg Va at the unveiling on theCrater battlefield of the handsomegranite monument erected theState of Massachusetts to its soldierand sailor dead who fell there in thecivil war Gov Foss of Massachusetts and Gov Mann of Virginia

in the ceremoniesThe Commonwealth of Kentucky

won a victory over the Southern Pacific Company when the UnitedStates Supreme Court decided thatthe Commonwealth had the right totax the company on the latterssteamers plying between New Yorkand New Orleans

Moving picture show promoters received a blow when the SupremeCourt of the United States decidedthat an exhibit of based ohthe scenes of a copyrighted bookmay constitute an infringement ofthe copyright on the book or re-

served rights to dramatizeBostons milk war was a subject-

of before Interstate Com-

merce Commission The independentmilk producers claim that BostonMaine and other New England railroads discriminated against them inBoston in freight rates

Twentyfive years of work among-I the lepers of Molokai Island Hawaiiwas celebrated by Brother Josephformerly Ira Barnes Duttona boy he became imbued with deepreligious sentiments and took acourse of theology in the EpiscopalChurch but was converted to Catholi

PARAGRAPHIC NEWS

DEVOTED TO OENERAIINTERES1

cism He has lived continuously atKalawao is and active andhas escaped contracting leprosy

Excavators exhumed twentyfiveskeletons where a skyscraping business structure will be erected Theywere bones of persons buried in oldTrinity Church Chapel in 1800

The twelfth victim has been slain inAtlanta Ga by the mysterious

Black Jack All the victims havebeen mullattocs and have been slainand mutilated in the same mannerThus far the police are absolutelywithout any clue as to the identity-of the murderer

Motion pictures are to be issued bythe National Association for theStudy and Prevention of Tuberculosis-in its Red Cross seal antituberculosis campaign The film story dealswith the refusal of a tenement ownerin New York to clean up the tenement the contraction of tuberculosis-by the occupants and owners wifeFinally it shows where a check for

150000 was given for the recoveryof his wife

The War Navy Agricultural and

other executive departments haveforwarded exhibits to the second annual insular fair to be held at SariJuan Porto Rico early next mouthJohn G Scofield chief clerk of theWar Department will be the Gov-

ernments representative at the fairThe sum of 851609 is asked of

Congress for improvements and maintenance of the Governmentfor the Insane during the ensuingyear in the report of Surgeon Sternberg and Superintendent White

to Secretary of the InteriorThey claim the asylum needswalls to prevent escapes and

buildingsJames Cookcroft well known as an

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