A short 1894 article by an anonymous missionary in the American South describing the cotton-picking season among African American communities. It discusses how families, including preachers and teachers, leave town for the fields during hard times, the drop in school attendance, and the moral conditions of the cotton camps. It also touches on drinking, debt to grocers, and fear surrounding public debate on lynching. It concerns social conditions, not textile production or weaving.

A first-person missionary account of one day (Thursday, Jan. 18) in Montgomery, Alabama, by a teacher at the Teachers' Home near the Swayne School for Black children. It describes home visits to sick and needy neighbors, church and missionary society matters, and afternoon and evening lessons in music, drawing and making worsted hoods. Despite the title, the piece is about missionary work and has no textile weaving content.