As soon as the door was closed I told my mother and the girls what I had discovered and they were quite ready to call me Sherlock Holmes II. We talked the matter over wildly and enthusiastically. We knew it was our duty to ’phone to police headquarters and put them on the track of the outlaw, but in some way we wanted to give him the opportunity of reforming. Every little while we wondered what had happened to our reformed burglar. But a few days later Ruth came in, waving a paper frantically and calling excitedly, “Come, girls! Listen!” In a minute we were all there looking over her shoulders and trying to get a glimpse of the paper with the startling headlines: “The Capture of Desperate Jim.” The National Association of Colored Women [Illustration] One of the interesting meetings for the coming month will be that of the National Association of Colored Women, which will be held in Baltimore, Md., August 6th to 11th inclusive, opening on Sunday, August 6th, with a platform meeting. The ninth biennial session of the Association was held in Wilberforce, Ohio, in August, 1914, during which session invitations were extended to them from four cities for the 1916 session—Washington, D. C., Tuskegee, Ala., Kansas City, Mo., and Baltimore, Md. Hon. James Preston, mayor of the latter city, cordially invited them, by long distance telephone, to meet in his city, and Baltimore was the place selected for the meeting this year. The National Association of Colored Women was organized in Washington, D. C., in July, 1896. It is a consolidation of the National League and the National Federation of Colored Women. This organization was incorporated in 1904. The present officers are: Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala., president. Mrs. Mary V. Talbert, Buffalo, N. Y., vice-president. Miss Ida R. Cummings, Baltimore, Md., secretary. Mrs. Ida Joyce Jackson, Columbus, O., treasurer. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Chicago, Ill., national organizer. These women are working constantly, yet quietly, for the betterment of the race. They are urging more modesty in dress, especially among our younger women, because the modern bizarre styles attract undue attention. It is a well known fact that our men do not always show as much respect for our women as they should; it is not an uncommon thing to walk into a crowded car and see all the men seated, and the women standing; some of them are old women, too. Frequently, in the larger cities, audible comments are passed upon the women as they pass down the streets,—all these things show a lack of respect. Possibly some of it is thoughtlessness, but it is none the less annoying; that is why the women of the National Association are urging our men to show more respect for womankind.