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2 Disbro. The conference will combine the inspira tional and technical side of the work, and special study will be made of the different departments, each one having its special presentation. Miss Dunn has prepared a series of stereoMicon views showing buildings and cafeterias in different sections of the country, and through this display some idea of the Economic Department of the work will be given. Recognizing that the best methods of teaching how things are done is to DO them, the Industrial and Extension Woik of the Association will be re viewed by those who have actually accomplished results in these fields and who have worked out some of its most difficult problems. Board Members’ Council. In addition to the city conference, a meeting of Board members is held which will enable such mem bers to meet and solve many of the problems regu larly occurring to all board members. Miss Ellen McAlpin, of Savannah, Ga., prepared a comprehen sive program for this department, and the work done must prove of great service. The Student Conference. Yet another feature of special work is the Stu dent Conference, -which considered practical methods for making the Student Associations more effective. Short talks on college living were given, and the conference was led by Miss Theresa Wilbur and the following state secretaries: Miss Mabie K. Staf ford, of the Gulf States; Miss Inez Kinney, of the Carolinas; Miss Emily Huntington, of Kentucky and Tennessee, and Miss Helen Coale, of the Virginias. Conference Speakers. Mr. Robert E. Speer, of New York City, Rev. Floyd Tompkins, of Philadelphia, Dean Edward I. Bosworth, of Oberlin, Ohio, Rev. Alfred H. Moment, D. D., of Raleigh, N. C., and Miss Ellen M. Stone, formerly of Bulgaria, are among the prominent speakers who addressed the conference. A sad incident of the session was the sudden death of Mrs. George H. Atkinson, of Monroe, N. C., who was taken ill while on the platform at the opening meeting, and who died next morning from heart failure. Mrs. Atkinson was State Chairman for the'-Commit tee of the Carolinas, and as Miss Frances Bridges, of Conklin, N. .Y, she had been for three years secretary of the American Committee of the Y. W. C. A. She was married to Rev. George 11. Atkinson during December of last year, and since that time had lived in Monroe, N. C. Her passing cast a gloom over the conference which its leaders found difficult to dispel. The Outdoor Meetings. Which w T ere held from seven to eight p. m., were beautiful and inspiring occasions, when prayer and praise services, as well as helpful talks from noted men and women were given. The Twelfth Annual Session of the Southern Con ference has now passed into the history of the as sociation, but its influence is being widely dissemi nated throughout the length and breadth of the South, and the return of the various committees to the home organizations will infuse fresh life and renewed enthusiasm into the workings of these bodies. While considering the special feature of the South ern Conference, it seems pertinent to glance in a general way at The Work of the Y. W. C. A. in America. As has already been shown, The American Com mittee is actively engaged in furthering the inter ests of the Association along the most advanced lines, and from the annual report of this committee, it is seen that there has been a phenomenally rapid development in the twenty-four state organizations. It is a development, however, not so much in num bers as in the amount and extension of work done. New associations have been formed in colleges, mill towns and small communities, and recently there has been a movement for the formation of associations among trained nurses and training schools for nurses in the principal hospitals. It has been de- The Golden Age for June 91, 1906. monstrated that such associations in no way inter fere with the work of the hospital and the Junior Class of Nurses in the Allegheny Training School, which hrs organized an association and begun a course of three years’ systematic Bible study to be followed at the close by an examination as rigid as that given in other branches of regular hospital work. The Michigan State Committee reports the formation of similar classes in the Ann Arbor thri ve] sity Hospital and also in Grace and Harper Hos pitals, both prominent Michigan institutions. It is believed that nurses need the helpful inspiration of Bible training more urgently, perhaps, than any other class of women workers. Industrial Training. But the Y. W. C. A. makes a special effort to bring within the realm of working women the practical assistance and material physical help which can only be effectively rendered by organized effort. This is demonstrated by the increased facilities in all the local organizations for study, as well as for indus trial and mechanical training. Classes in dress making, in stenography and typewriting, in cooking, in home nursing and in ordinary educational branches are held regularly, and the fees are so small as to bring these within the reach of every working woman who desires the help so offered. In the majority of cities suitable and handsome buildings are erected for the use of women members of the Y. W. C. A., and in most of these, rooms and board can be had at a nominal rate for the working woman. This feature alone would recom mend the association to the kindly consideration of the general public, for it solves a great problem as to the proper, disposition of the working woman in the matter of a home. It is especially pertinent when considering the positon of young women from the rural districts who flock in large numbers to the principal cities without adequate funds or knowledge to provide themselves with a suitable Christian home. The Young Woman’s Christian Association, like the Young Men’s Christian Association, has grown into a power in the social and religious life of a community, and its various departments require the most careful administration. To meet this need, therefore, there has been founded A Train ng Institute for Secretaries Which although itself a separate organization, is federated with the World’s Y. W. C. A. and the World’s Student Christian Association. This in stitute is equipped with every requirement for the proper training of secretaries which will enable them to serve in distant communities. The Institute is situated at 297 Ashland Boulevard in the most desirable residence district of Chicago. The house contains a lecture room, reception room, office and residence for students and two instruc tors. Miss Charlotte 11. Adams is the resident Bible teacher, whose work correlates the lectures by non resident Bible teachers. The course of Bible study is thorough and complete, and it, as well as the other special features, serves to prepare young women for immediate sei vice as secretaries. “Attendance at the Institute is required in order that a young wo man may become familiar with the principles and methods of the movement in which she is expected to be a leader and that she may gain experience in harmony with this preparation, and further, that the committee may know her qualifications and her personality in order that recommendations may lie based upon actual knowledge.” The tuition and other expenses of the training are exceedingly reasonable, and the career may appeal potent to undertake work of this kind. The work of the Y. W. C. A., which has here been most briefly outlined, is considered one of the most extensive and best organized efforts for the educa tion and cultivation of the Christian young woman, and it is hoped that the summer session may waken interest in the Association in the hearts of these who may not have been Tully informed as to the broad purpose of an organization planned solely to benefit in the highest and holiest sense the young women of the civilized world. News of General Interest. The House of Representatives has voted in favor of a lock canal at Panama. An airship -was navigated a few days ago all around Washington, circling the monument and pass ing over the Capitol. Walter Wellman will soon make an attempt to discover the north pole in an airship. The ship will be the largest dirigible balloon ever built, and will carry five men, besides food and all equipment. Last week was “Home Coming” week in Ken tucky. A monument was unveiled to Stephen Col lins Foster, author of “My Old Kentucky Home” at Louisville, and one day was set apart as Daniel Boone day. The Foster statue is the gift of the school children of Kentucky. A recent convention of learned men at Berlin have decided to advise the government to establish two kinds of lyeeums for girls, one covering a period of eight years, vhich shall correspond to our high schools, and the other covering a period of four years similar to our universities. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers have done a good work for temperance by refusing to sanction a strike of three hundred skilled men on account of the discharge of a puddler for going into a saloon during working hours. This holds up the hands of employers in their efforts to repress drinking by their employes. Rabbi Wolinsky, 102 years old, boasts the largest family in New York, as he can count 104 lineal de scendants. Os this number 54 are living in New York City, 34 are still in Russia, 15 are dead, and there is an infant grandson. Os this number 27 are children and the remainder grandchildren and great grandchildren. No “race suicide” in the Wo linsky family I The Indian Missionary Society, a most important organization, has been started by native Indian Christians. This is a most important movement commenced by the native Christians. “It ds (1) interdenominational, different districts to be handed over to different bodies; (2) its agents Indian; (3) its money Indian; (4) its control in the hands of Indians, with the advice of a few missionaries till well under way.” It is stated that Dr. Torrey and Mr. Alexander will conduct a great revival in Nashville, Tenn., during next October. A committee of gentlemen from Nashville, consisting of laymen and ministers, visited Atlanta to invite the revivalists to meet in Nashville, and at a meeting of the Nashville Ep worth League on Friday night last, it was stated that this invitation had been accepted. Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee and Major General 0. 0. Howard are considering the writing of a collaborated history of the Civil War. The record would be unique in combining both points of view, as General Howard is a noted Union Army man, and, of course, General lee is famous in Confed erate circles. They are both students and graduates of West Point at the same time, and never ceased being warm personal friends, even when they com manded hostile forces. Lewis Nixon, a former naval officer and a grad uate of Annapolis, has recently invented a new sub marine destroyer, the essentials of which have been kept secret because of the valuable patent rights that must'be preserved. It is said that it will he built wholly of steel of the thinnest possible plates; that it will be run by a safely protected gasoline motor and that if can hit the mark 150 feet below the surface, while submarines now in use cannot possibly work with safely more than forty or fiftv feet below. The use of this new submarine will practically revolutionize naval warfare.