New-York tribune., 1897-07-30

tho witty eaIlies originate from Father Perces'
end of this truly festive board where she presloes
demurely. wearing the dainty hemsutched co'la'
and cuffs OF the order Unfamiliar faces often ap-
pear but strangers there are none In TINS work
org haven The Home was opened last summer
The nresant cottage is rented. but a movement Is
on foot TO buy build permanent one rs soon Is
the necessary funds are obtained.
The thought OF the women who planned this re-
treat has been 10 make it place where mission
workers could amid conEenal surroundings met
and know one another and at the same time ma
ros. and recreation after the years unremlttihs
Iabors There are twenty guests at present MISS
Mosher superintendent Of the MorristoWh lhuuS
trial Home for Colored Girls, at Morrstown' Iehh''
has lust left The Misses Ware ana Hemih"aE are
teachers in an Indian school In Boyndeh Va anu
tho Misses Mary and Marguerite Trlpp teach
among the Navajo Indians in Las cruces anu
Jewi,t y NJ Miss Anita G. Rodriguez Is from
the Harwood Home. n Albuquerque y NJ ""e''
she is engaged In work among the New-MeN'c""''
Mrs F. V Chapman. Of the Ritter Home III
Athens Tenn has charge Of one Of the two Meth
odlst mission white schools in the South.
Several of the deaconesses' homes thro"shou' ''e
countrv are represented. Mrs. Turney. superih-
.n,on, ~ tho Deaconesses Home IN Philadelphia
T. ,be-e with four deaconesses from that hoHic'
Miss Rhoda Zigler. from the Knoxville peacoheSS'S
uoroe. Miss s f. Ireland. from the Home AT 'on-
rors,,iIIe Ind. Miss Philo. from the one at Sa-
vannah. Ga and others are expected daily.
Much OF the dainty furniture OF Rest Home mas
been given by Mrs. Clinton L. fisNe ""''on"'
president of the Womans Home Missionary 80
c,o,v - the Methodist Church. by which the Home
is maintained.
A MOST INTERESTING GUEST.
One Of tbe most interesting guests of the Home at
present is Miss Rachel jefferson. graduate OF the
NorrIstown Normal Academy for the Colored' anu
also NJ the New-Jersey Industrial II ome lot 'o'v'"
Girls both OF which are In Morristo"h 4eI'' i"I
former is supported by the Freedman Alu "n"
Southern Educational Society, ana the latter DS
the Woman's Home Missionary Society OF tne MeVl-
od,s, church Miss jefferson is a remarkably ear
most ambitious girl who has conse rated her HE
to christian work among her people. She ASSISTS
with the housework in Rest Home TINS sumniet'
and is favorte with an IN tne "oGoT "ires ~ ali
and the character OF her WORK aulniS1t - ~, m 80 80
proof that education does not uhn' one 'o' u''"''N
Her father and mother were save and eI notn inc are
peeh pee 49, 49, Tf~r grandmo;her Rachel Boyd. of
Bristol Tenn is haRdsome muao ANY Wbe peops
aiik" moi only of f.ristol but OF the surrounding
country She was slave educated by het MI III
tress and after the war taught SShooi u'i, u'i,,d a'r
marriage Since that time she has been detotel.
enthusiastic teacher ana helper hot oiP J1 qr ' =,
own u.ope bur OF all who were In any hlhu OF
need She is the only colored member of white ii
church In that secion 1r 9 Lne ne a5d much Old
ANS MS "rIor the var while NJ was endea vorns 10
fuhi his masters commands to conyey the family
Ohio where he enlisted in the Union Army. THIS
fall Miss jefferson will occupy me position Oh - a.
sistant 70 the superintendent OF the industrial
IIomn Of Morristown Tenn where she was gradu-
aied Il is her intention, as soon a poSS'"iT: u
Hayes Training School for Deaconesses and Mis-
''%Yntes Wib nani 1 SIMPLICITY Of manner and warmth
Of feeling she addressed one OF the meetings this
week
ORDER OF DEACONESsEs.
The or,or ~ Deaconesses was started by the
Lutheran Church many years ago. The Rev Theo-
dore Fleidner started the work. In mis- back yard
I'm Kaiserswerth in Prussia. he had summer
house twelve feet square. and there grl released
from prison began the work which Tor many years
TbIriy-Ihrce % wears later hfty-elght deaconesses
from the Fleidner Hcmc. and more than TWO nun
dred I'm all served the batile-heds OF the Aus
trian War as nurses. In the Prusslan war thfre
We're over eight hundred deaconesses VINO served IN
the same capacity The order was started IN the
eiebi lars ago The National Training School for
Deaconesses and Bible Workers if N Washington.
arv Society of the Methodist church The Rev DR..
A. IT. Ares Is AT the head of TINS IT. Is calisd the
Lucy Webb Hayes Training School There IS also
a training school for doaconesses In chicago.
called after It's superintendent! ana ionndet MT MI
Lucy Ryder Mysr the MyrT rsg ,rred ,he Work oe
the order and new, in the iortv-twO deacon"sses
homes which are scattered from Maine 10 Alaska.
there are for nearly every kind OF help
fm and uplifting work among women.
The work L. arranged under tn. general heads OF
parish evangelistic. nursing kind"rgar,en and
witch has been annexed 10 the Buffalo iome.
every passengor train possible coming into Buffalo.
and helps and for children. young girls and
invallds who are travelling alone
There are homes OF this order under the care
of the Woman's Home Missionary society OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church. not only In this coun-