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168 auxiliary of that body. She wrote a pamphlet of thirteen pages, setting forth the work, constitution, order of business and work children could do to earn their own money, which proved beneficial and was quite instructive to the little ones. She was of a national disposition, and every such meeting she could reach was greeted by her smiles. The first National Baptist Convention, which met in St. Louis in 1886, listened to a paper from her on "The Future Colored Girl," which is published in the "Journal" of that meeting. She was also elected at that time as Historian of that body, and served it several years as one of the Executive Committee. In 1888 she again appeared before this body with a paper which showed carefulness of thought and logical arrangement.

Her newspaper work began in 1884, when she controlled the "Children's Column" in The American Baptist, of Louisville, Ky. In 1887 she accepted a position on the staff of The Baptist Journal of which Rev. R. H. Coles, of St. Louis, was editor. She furnished sketches of newspaper writers, among the women of the race, for the New York Journalist, in the interest of artists, authors and publishers. Her work was very much praised and also reproduced in the Boston Advocate, the Indianapolis Freeman and other papers. She was a forcible writer, using good English, and always produced something readable. She edited the department of "Woman and Woman's Work" in Our Women and Children, a magazine of Louisville, Ky. In this work she took much pride. She was greatly interested in the elevation of woman and was always outspoken on