The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-04-25

church and highly interested the large
audience with her description of the
training school of which she is the
head and her work in behalf of her
race, after which she went to Pilgrim
Baptist church and spoke for an hour
Monday was partly spent in sight,
seeing in Minneapolis, and business
concerning her school, and at 2:3O
p. M, she appeared at the Old State
Capitol under the auspices of the
State Federation of Womens Clubs
The senate chamber was packed with
very representative audience in
which, of course, the gentler sex pre-
dominated. Mrs. w. IT. Francis pre-
sided and made a splendid introduce
tory speech, but complying with the
wishes of Miss Burroughs made no
formal introduction of the speaker,
other than to present her to the audi.
ence. Rev. E. G.. Jackson invoked Di-
vine blessings, Mrs. R. G. Minor and
Miss Mildred Shull gave delightful
vocal selections.
Miss Burroughs spoke on 1.-THE Chal-
enges of the Hour" and she had every
body sitting up and taking notice as
she is the most forceful, logical and
plain spoken of any of our women,
and says something all the time she is
talking Her address was most in
spring.
Monday evening Miss Burroughs
was entertained at tea by Mrs. B.
Seers, 99S Iglehart street, where COW
ers were laid for eight.
Tuesday morning Mrs. Geo. W..
Camp had a breakfast in her honor,
but owing to a sudden indisposition
Miss Burroughs was unable to be pres
ent At 800 o'clock, however, she
was sufficiently recovered to appear at
the Philadelphia church and speak
to the City Missionary Quarterly.
Tuesday at o'clock, Miss Bur-
roughs spoke to large gathering of
ladies at the residence of Mrs. J. H.
Hickman, followed by luncheon to
a party of twelve with Mrs. Mildred
Casey as hostess.
Tuesday evening the browning event
of her visit was a formal reception
given by the auxiliary clubs of Pill
grim Baptist church at the residence
of the Pastor. This was a very BRILL
ant social function. The house was
handsomely decorated with palms, ev-
Sl SlSSllo ctlu IOW CIR duu C1S
were most handsomely gowned.
In the receiving line were: Mes
danes j. w. Kelly, E. H. Mcdonald,
Lulu Howard, T. H. Lyles, Waldo Tur-
ner, J. o. Marshall, Grant Bush, Ed.
Williams and Miss Mary Fletcher.
Those who assisted in serving, etc.,
were: Mesdames A. Payne, G. H.
Spaulding, Eugene Bridges, H. Pat
rick, E. Hill, w. B. Tandy, M. Hunt,
Bert Adams; Messrs. J. w. Kelly, J.
w. C1eary, A. Payne, J. Ware.
During the evening vocal and in
strumental selections were given by:
Miss Ruth McGhee, Prof. w. A. Weir,
Miss Adina Adams, Mr.. Blackwell,
Mrs. l.. w. Pleasant, Mr.. J. H. Hick-
man, Jr. and last but not least Mad.
M. l.. Bruce, the Oklahoma Song Bird,
who had just returned to the city.
The house was packed during the
entire evening. The refreshments sea-
sonable and bountiful. .
Wednesday Mrs. Bert Adams gave
an HOO o'clock breakfast with covers
laid for six.
Wednesday afternoon Miss Bur-
roughs was the guest of Mrs. w. T.
Francis, who took her to Minneapolis
and entertained her at lunch at her
residence on their return. In the ev-
ening the distinguished visitor left
for .Des Moines, delighted with the
people of the Twin Cities who were
equally delighted with her and will
hail with joy her return which she
contemplates doing in the near future.