Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

they were untitled for the discharge of the
duties In the positions to which they aspire
we are now being assailed from another
point, the speaker declared as he took
up the subject of bleaching and hair
Strengthening. The result. If success at
tends the efforts and claims of those en-
gagged in whitening the negroes. will puzzle
ST. Peter at heavens gate when the jour
ney to the other land will begin for he VIII
want TO know what has become of the
negroes on earth" The remarks were
greeted with rounds of laughter and sp-
plause.
Post Office Issues Mandatory Order.
The Post Office Department has put an
end to several business enterprises in Rich
mond. Va, which have fiourished and
grown fat at the expense of negroes who
have desire to be little whittier and to
have hair bit straighter than nature in
tended There are several of these con-
Germs there-rather, there were several of
them. Ready resort was made to printers
ink, and the new issue of negro, strong on
education, read the advertisements and tcs-
timoniais, and readily swallowed the bait.
as many readers of patent medicine adver-
tisements do. Some of the preparations
are so cheap that they could be sold at
one-fourth the price charged and a large
proht made. The remedies We're TO bleach
a negro tin man would not know his wife,
or vice versa. Quantities of the stun was
sold, and once the patients began the
treatment they We're ashamed TO show that
they had been gulled. and so kept quiet.
Then came the people who had the prepa-
ration to straighten the kinky hair of the
negro to long, black and silky locks and
tresses. Glaring advertisements appeared in
the negro journals and the money began to
pour into the Golfers of the owners of the
great discovery" The business grew. and
many men and women were employed to
attend to the orders while the who
owned the stuff lived in luxury, dressed
well, bought houses and rode in automo-
bies. They were rolling in wealth. And
the business continued to grow. The pre-
paration was made in many instances in
places adjoining the offices of the people
who advertised
Suddenly other men discovered the art"
and they began to advertise ability to
straighten the kinkyhaired for SO much
per kink. New factories were opened and
more people We're employed The orders
kept coming and ''imitators" began to get
rich. Then the pest office people took
hand and cut off the flow of money from
the easly-guilled to the heads of the con-
Germs. A wall went up, and the post office
authorities were appealed to in vain. the
fraud order standing and all letters being
withheld by the authorities, the money TO
be returned to the senders.
The preparation for Strengthening hair
was. in at least one case. composed of axle
grease and some cheap seeming chemical
to destroy the odor of the composition. The
factory was discovered accidentally by
man who found the stuff being dipped out
of huge barrel and put into bottles, which
were afterward labelled and put into boxes
and sold to the customers. The composition
costs about seven cents pound ana is SOFA
at about 81 a pound, showing that fair
profit is made by the discovery of the
preparation. 1t is estimated that one thou
sand packages We're sold each week, ana
with liberal advertising the business bade
fair to assume great proportions. In a ma
jorty of instances the preparations were
owned and operated by colored men, but
fraud order was issued against a white
man who was reaping harvest at the ex-
pense of the negroes.