making and hem-stitching were taught in one class. The girls
in another room have tied six comfortables. The boys in the carpenter
shop are doing excellent work, and they like it very much. One class of
five or six come every morning at seven o'clock, and they do this to get
more instruction. Most of this class are country boys who cannot stay at
school all of the year. In one of the primary rooms, we have the
kitchen-garden material. There, with the twenty-four sets of toy dishes,
the little ones are taught how to set and clear off table, and a great
many useful things in reference to table manners and customs.

Our general school work goes on like clock-work. The children and young
people are growing in their power of concentration and self-control, and
we feel greatly encouraged, as we look into the future for them, to hope
that at no very distant day a well ordered home, where three meals a day
shall be served in a refined, orderly manner, shall not be so rare a
thing as it now is. We are more and more convinced that the home life of
these people must be changed, if they are ever to be what we want them
to be, and what, for the interests of our country and for the coming of
Christ's kingdom on earth, they must be.

And now I will close in the usual way by telling you some of our needs.

For the new boarding department, we shall need bedding of all kinds. I
especially want that each mattress shall be furnished with a quilted or
padded cover--that is, something as large as the mattress on top.
Towels, table linen and such things as are needed in every house are
always acceptable. If any one wants to furnish carpets for teacher's
rooms, we do not say them nay.

MRS. LIVA A. SHAW.

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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.

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WORK AMONG THE CHILDREN.

BY MRS. L.R. GREENE.

I have spent nearly five years in teaching the little colored children
in this Southland. In my department there are over ninety bright,
enthusiastic little folks between the ages of five and thirteen. I have
often wished that the anxious inquirers as to whether the colored
children were as bright and smart intellectually as white ones, could
visit my room, and the little people would answer the question
themselves.

My pupils, with one exception, being day scholars, I have had an
excellent opportunity to know the colored people. I go to their homes;
some I find as cosy and p