Aside from these two enterprises, Mrs. Washington is also largely
responsible for a woman's club at the school which brings
together, twice a month, the women who live on the school grounds
and those who live near, for the discussion of some important
topic. She is also the President of what is known as the
Federation of Southern Coloured Women's Clubs, and is Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the National Federation of Coloured
Women's Clubs.
Portia, the oldest of my three children, has learned dressmaking.
She has unusual ability in instrumental music. Aside from her
studies at Tuskegee, she has already begun to teach there.
Booker Taliaferro is my next oldest child. Young as he is, he has
already nearly mastered the brickmason's trade. He began working
at this trade when he was quite small, dividing his time between
this and class work; and he has developed great skill in the
trade and a fondness for it. He says that he is going to be an
architect and brickmason. One of the most satisfactory letters
that I have ever received from any one came to me from Booker
last summer. When I left home for the summer, I told him that he
must work at his trade half of each day, and that the other half
of the day he could spend as he pleased. When I had been away
from home two weeks, I received the following letter from him:
Tuskegee, Alabama.
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