Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05
BLACK TURNS WHITE,
Skin of Brooklyn Neeress
Changing its Color.
DOCTORS ARE DEEPLY INTERESTED
The Mother of the Woman Afraid Han
Daughter Will be Kidnapped in
the Interests of Science.

Colored people of Brooklyn are much
exercised over the fact that one of their
number is fast turning from a negress
to white woman. The woman is Miss
Emma Bryant, who lives at No. 433
Hudson avenue. She is full -blooded
negress, but from the wonderful changes
in the color of her skin, now looks more
like white woman. The change is SO
marked that many people who have
known her for years, fail to recognize
her when on the street. The case has
attracted much attention from pbysi-
clans who have seen her, and she has
been before the doctors in several of the
hospitals. She says the medical men
say her case is one of dominic" but
she has probably got the word mixed
up with some scientific term made use
of by the physicians.
Miss Bryant is married, but hen hus-
band, John Stewart, having left her,
she prefers to be known by her maiden
name. She is thirty three years old
and has two children, neither of whom
shows any signs of the change in the
color of his skin like that which has
become so apparent in the mother.
The young woman certainly appears
to be turning white about as fast as ma
ture can make good and complete job
of it. While her natural skin is dark,
as can be seen by several small spots
that are still left on her face and arms
the greater portion of her face, neck
g, L. DO
ian's in the land. Her forehead has
turned completely white, and also the
right side of her face. The greater
part of the left side of her face and
nose, as we'll as her neck, is also very
light color. The palms of her hands
are as white as those of the fairest wo-
man, as are her arms. Her mother says
her body is notified all over in just the
same way. The white skin is notified
with that of the color of her ancestors,
making startling and striking COM
parison. The elder Mrs. Bryant, the
mother of the young woman, ON the
contrary, is very dark, and she says the
father of the child was of the same
dark hue,
Miss Bryant and her mother were
seen by a reporter, and while they
seemed willing to talk of the strange
case, they, as we'll as the others in the
room, seemed to be laboring under
state of suppressed excitement. The
cause was soon made apparent when
the young woman turned to the reporter
and asked him if he had come to carry
her off. The reporter soon found that
the party did not think it joking mat
ter Old Mrs. Bryant charged the re-
porter with seeking to kidnap her
daughter for the doctors. She was
fully convinced that the medical men
wanted to kill her daughter for the
purpose of discovering what had caused
her skin to turn white.
The young woman's skin began to
fade about year ago. Before that
there came few white spots, not much
larger than pins head. These had
grown rapidly until they had spread
almost entirely over the young woman's
face, body and limbs. The larger the
spots grew the faster they seemed to
grow, until at the present rate the wo-
man will not have dark-colored piece
of skin ON her body in six months.
When the white spots first began to
come, the young woman became fright
ened and went to physician. He gave
her some medicine, but it made no diff
ference. Other physicians which she
went to were very much interested in
her case, but said they could do nothing
for her. The changing of the color of
her skin has not, she said, affected her
health in any way, and she is as well
now as ever she was.
Old Mrs. Bryant does not view the
startling appearance in her daughter
with the same degree of complacency
as the girl. She seems to think that it
is direct visitation from some all
powerful source in punishment for her
disobedience to her mother. One thing
that the mother insists upon is that her
daughter shall take no medicine or have
anything to do with medical men.
AS the reporter was going away the
mother called after him that she hoped
that they wouldn't take her daughter
and kill her for the sake of her two lit
tie children.