Union, Secretary,
Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne, Ind.

ILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs.
C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.

MICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,
Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich.

WIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,
Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.

MINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary,
Miss Katharine Plant, 2651 Portland Avenue,
Minneapolis, Minn.

IOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,
Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa.

KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary,
Mrs. G.L. Epps, Topeka, Kan.

NEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, President,
Mrs. F.H. Leavitt, 1216 H St., Lincoln, Neb.

DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, President,
Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux Falls; Secretary, Mrs.
W.R. Dawes, Redfield; Treasurer, Mrs. S.E.
Fifield, Lake Preston.

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REPORT OF SECRETARY.

It is fitting that woman should have a part in a work that finds its
centre of operations in Christian schools and homes for the training
of the exceptional classes reached by the American Missionary
Association.

Let us not forget that the Indians for whom we work have been
excluded from our civilized communities, until it is difficult to win
them to our customs, our language and our religion; that until only
about twenty-five years ago, generation after generation of our
colored people had been born to bondage, and had groaned its hopeless
life away in far greater misery than the same conditions brought in
uncivilized Africa--misery made deeper and keener by contrasts in
civilized America. Is it a wonder that the women of a slave race lost
their womanly instincts; that the moral nature was blunted and
marred; that the mind became impoverished, the heart a waste place
for poisonous weeds to grow?

Let us not forget that the mountain people have been passed by, until
shrinking farther and farther into the seclusion of their hills and
ravines, and living unto themselves, they have lost the sturdy
qualities of their ancestors.

What kind of homes do we find among these people, where the children
with their impressible minds are receiving their first instruction?

Our teacher is invited to visit the home of a Kentucky girl, one
somewhat above the average. Beautiful for situation, up a winding
road, past cascades and mountain waterfalls, upon a high plateau the
home is found--a box house, one room, no