e time, and your room will be
a continual pleasure to you, as you will not count the time it
requires to keep it so any more than you do that which you give to
insure personal cleanliness.

It will be easier to keep your room nice than to let it go after you
once know the pleasure of an orderly, dainty room, kept so by your own
hands. (The Guide, Baltimore, Md.)

[Illustration: IDA B. WELLS BARNETT, CHICAGO, ILL.
Editor _Conservator._]

WHAT NEGRO WOMEN ARE DOING.

BY H. R. BUTLER, ATLANTA, GA.

There are, according to the latest statistics, 1,280 Afro-American
women secretaries and clerks.

No less than one dozen newspapers are edited by intelligent colored
women.

Seventy-five Afro-American lady dentists, some of whom have a large
practice among the best white people, are an honor to the profession.

Sixty Negro women proclaim the gospel to dying sinners with telling
effect.

There are 4,314 colored lady musicians in the land of the "Father of
his country."

There are 111 colored women who are regular practicing physicians in
the United States.

In 1870 there was not a colored lady bookkeeper in this country.
To-day there are 347.

There are 18 Afro-American women who are competent land surveyors.

Statistics show that there are no less than seventy stenographers
among the colored women, most of whom are employed on good salaries.

The census of 1890 shows that there are 3,949 actresses in this
country, more than a score of whom are women of the race.

Besides the above-named avocations, we have sculptors, painters,
lawyers, architects, merchants, and, in fact, our women are filling
with success and ability almost every avocation and profession of
to-day, and the day is in the near future when the service of
thousands of others will be in still greater demand.

WHAT RACE NEWSPAPERS HAVE DONE.

(FROM BALTIMORE CHURCH ADVOCATE.)

The history of the colored newspaper is one of pathetic but vigorous
struggle. Upon the whole, with all of its drawbacks and want of proper
support, it has ever been one of the most potential arms of race
progress. It has been the means of throwing open to the race the
columns of the great Anglo-Saxon newspapers hitherto closed against
them. It has educated both races. It has been a mirror to reflect the
advance made by the race from time to time. Like the Negro pulpit, it
is far from being perfect. But its slow but steady progress
constitutes the very