N.Y.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C.  Creegan,
Syracuse, N.Y.

ALA.—­Woman’s Missionary Association, Secretary, Mrs. G.W.  Andrews,
Talladega, Ala.

OHIO.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal,
Oberlin, Ohio.

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, Mrs. H.L.  Chase, 2,750
Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.

IOWA.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh,
Grinnell, Iowa.

KANSAS.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison
Blanchard, Topeka, Kan.

SOUTH DAKOTA.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.E.  Young,
Sioux Falls, Dak.

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WOMAN’S TEMPERANCE WORK IN THE SOUTH.

We regret that the color-line is rigidly drawn in some parts of the South, at least, in the woman’s work for temperance.  Too much praise cannot be given to the white women in the South for their zeal in this good cause.  The day will probably come when they will extend the hand of fellowship to their equally earnest sisters of the less favored race, but at present they do not recognize them as fellow-workers in the same societies.  Some of the extracts given below tell this unpleasant story.  All of them, however, show that the colored women, undeterred by this ostracism, are throwing themselves with zeal and success into this good work.

STORRS SCHOOL, ATLANTA, GA.

We have a W.C.T.U., also a Band of Hope.  Our Union has increased very much in interest, as well as in numbers, during the year.  The Band of Hope meets every Wednesday.  It has a membership of one hundred and twenty-five, and an average attendance of seventy-five or eighty.  Occasionally one or two ladies from the white W.C.T.U. will visit ours, but our Union is not recognized by the State Union.  At one time a lady, acting then as President of our Union, went to the white Union, but she was so light that no one could know to what race she belonged, unless they knew her personally.  There were no questions asked, and I don’t suppose any one thought of her being colored.  Our colored members would not be admitted.  Our teachers would be, going by themselves.

TALLADEGA, ALA.

We have a W.C.T.U., also a Loyal Temperance Legion.  Our Union is auxiliary to the Second W.C.T.U. of the State, and we are not recognized by the First, or distinctively white organization.  Colored members would not be admitted.  Indeed I understand that the First Union has withdrawn from the National, because colored delegates were received on the same basis as white.