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The Woman's meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held
in connection with the Annual Meeting, on Thursday afternoon, October
31st, in the New England Church, Chicago, Ill. Missionaries will be
present from the work among the colored people and the mountain whites
in the South, and also from the Indians, to give descriptions of their
life on their mission fields. We would again urge a full representation
of ladies from all the churches.

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In connection also with the Annual Meeting of the American Missionary
Association, and by their invitation, there will be an all-day Mass
Meeting of Women's Home Missionary Unions in the New England Church,
Chicago, October 29th. Every State Union is urged to send
representatives.

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GLIMPSES FROM THE FIELD.

SCHOOL LIFE.

I think you could not find a busier company of young people anywhere. As
soon as one task is accomplished, another is ready to be taken up, and
this goes on from early morn till time for retiring. Going into the
kitchen you will find a dozen or more girls, with bright and happy
faces, doing the homely work of dish-washing and preparing the
vegetables for dinner. In the laundry, you are greeted with as many more
smiling faces, some singing, others telling funny stories, but all busy
at their allotted work. The bell rings for school and you will see them
flying from every direction, perhaps having taken a moment to smooth the
hair, or arrange the dress. All out of breath they reach the school
room, ready for the five hours' work with books, which is the same as
any average school in the North. This work being accomplished, they are
off to the farm, shops, the sewing room and the cooking class. Here they
learn to prepare all substantial food which would be necessary for any
table, and become initiated into the intricacies of bread, pie and
cake-making.

Our Sabbaths are not idle days either, for with Sunday-school, church
service, and prayer meetings, our day is pretty well filled. Some of our
girls are doing real missionary work by going out into the neighborhood,
to relieve the sick, read to the old and infirm, and to carry food where
it is needed. This they seem to enjoy, and it will, perhaps, prepare
them for usefulness as they go out to work among their people.

HOME LIFE.

Perhaps, if I give you a glim