The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-28
INDIANS And ALHUqES
Woman's Home Missionary So
eiety Hears All About
Them.

The afternoon session of the conference
union meeting of the Newark. New York
and New York East. Woman's Home
Missionary Societies of the Methodist
Church was opened in Centenary Church
yesterday afternoon by devotional exer-
cises. led by Mrs. Downing. Mrs. c. s..
Woodruff and Miss Lena Leonard sang
a duet and Mrs. C. A. Green, Mrs. Mary
Fisk Park and Miss Martha Van Master
were appointed Committee on Resolu-
lions.
Mrs. Clinton B.. Fisk, the National
President, gave a ak about her trip to
California. Shit INDUCED in personal
"reminiscences of her trip, telling of her
joy at meeting her son whom she had
not seen for nine years. She said a
school is to be dedicated Sunday at Albu-
querque, where she has been for some
time assisting in the work. The work
on the Pacific coast is in charge of the
Southern California Conference. Mrs;
Fisk visited Los Angeles. Las Vegas ana
all the mission homes and schools OF the
society.
Miss Martha Van Master spoke of the
Home Missionary literature. She said
all the members SHOULD read the papers
carefully, because they described the lives
of the missionaries and told how the
work was progressing. She said the
pdptlo IL 1NdlQdOtE.
Mrs. Anna F. Beiler of Washington,
D.. c., talked about Alaska. She spoke
of the great resources. of the country
and talked particularly of the Aleutes.
They are not Indians. and they resent
being called so; they are of Japanese
origin and they feel their superiority
believe IN poiygamy and witchcraft, and
who worship the spirits of the air. They
have no old people; they kill them when
they show signs of infirmity. There is
in THAR country no S1Iph thing as a
for children. Mrs. Beiler told of the
sgs If Of fbf the son Met n6ara t mlnis Work. tn SIRE
described it and said there are in it ten
chairs, not one rocking chair, no pic
lures. and missionaries. children and all
are huddled into four or five rooms.
Yet in these poor quarters 100 children
MRS. p ". Simpson Of Troy gave an
She said the methods of the Methodists
are Just right for the conversion of the
Indians. The .Navajoe mission is be,
the reservation. The Indians are OPP
posed to schools because many of their
children who nave been sent to Govern
They call Catholic priests ssmen that drag
their coat tails on the ground Mrs.
Simpson had a number of photographs
showed two specimen. pieces Of Navajoe
bread; One is very thin and brittle and
is baked in very thin layers on hot
stones. The other is dough which is put
in followed corn eobs and then baked:
Miss Mildred Lockwood was dressed in
the Navajoe costume, which consists of
two tightly woven red and back blank
cts sewed together. A red sash belts
the waist and a collar of beads adorns
the neck.
Miss Josephine Corbin, from the Dea-
eoness Home in Philadelphia, told of
many of her experiences in her work and
repeated much which Mrs. Maynard had
told of the work.
The Resolution Committee expressed
their appreciation and hanks to the
agents Of the Methodist Book Concern
for granting to the society a room in
their building; their hanks to the COM
mittee in charge of the music, their
thanks to the ladies' CT Centenary
Church for their kind entertainment, to
the trustees for their hospitality. to the
speakers, to the pastor, and they COM
mended the basket luncheon to other
| conferences.
Mrs. Beiler introduced a resolution con-
demning the efforts made by Benjamin
p. Morse, the collector of customs at
Sitka: to ave the liquor prohibitory law
repealed.
In the evening Miss Corbin again told
of the work of the d~eaconesses.