First Annual Report of the Woman's Missionary Council of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 1910-1911 . ate our school for the centenary celebration. We were invited to the home of a prominent lawyer here to meet therepresentatives of several other schools, and were asked to contributetoward a float for the centennial celebration. To have refused to contrib-ute would have signified that as a school we felt no interest in the greatcentenary of Mexican independence. Of course we contributed for theschool. The cost of all these preparations for the centenary celebra- FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. 3
First Annual Report of the Woman's Missionary Council of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 1910-1911 . ate our school for the centenary celebration. We were invited to the home of a prominent lawyer here to meet therepresentatives of several other schools, and were asked to contributetoward a float for the centennial celebration. To have refused to contrib-ute would have signified that as a school we felt no interest in the greatcentenary of Mexican independence. Of course we contributed for theschool. The cost of all these preparations for the centenary celebra- FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. 341 tion, together with the cost of complying with another order from themayor to put galvanized iron tubes around the school, was more than$160 (gold). We have written thus in detail because we are unwilling for thewomen of the Council to think that we have carelessly spent the fundsgiven unto our hands. We feel sure that the expenses of MacDonell Institute in the way oftaxes and repairs and furniture will be small during the remainderof the present school year, and do not doubt that by the close of school. MEXICAN CACTUS. we shall be out of debt and have in bank the appropriations sent for roofand floor of Assembly Hall. Our school work, under the supervision of Miss Norville, is highlysatisfactory. Miss Norville is also building up rapidly the English nightschool. Our commercial department promises to be a success Hancock, who has charge of the school of shorthand and type-writing, has already secured a number of young men from the better 342 WOMAN^S MISSIONARY COUNCIL. class Of Mexicans and also several Mexican teachers (young women)as students in these branches, in spite of the edict of the archbishopiere prohibiting Catholics from attending Protestant schools. We long to see established in connection with our English schoolsthoroughly equipped Spanish schools under the supervision of skilledteachers. Schools and Missionaries in Mexico. SCHOOLS. PUPILS. MISS
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