Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-27
Life Story of Woman Who Is
Trying to Prove She IS Not a Negroes
Scientists Find No Trace of Colored Blood, But Refuse to Make
Affidavit; Says She Was Cared for by Black Foster Mother
Now Woman Without Race.

me, and yet dodn't want to hurt this
woman who had been SO good to me.
Goes Away.
Gas soon as I had finished the pub
lie schools of Cincinnati my foster,
mother sent me to st. Francis acad-
envy. ~ Kun.
FINALLY my home surroundings
preyed upon me so that | wanted to
go, away. l went to Seattle. I.got a
position as a bundle wrapper in a de,
partment store. Iflived with a dear,
good woman whoptreated me like a
daughter. l took my SIS home every
week just as a daughter might do and
I think she felt for me almost the
same as she did for her own daughter.
Met Little at II.
81 was II then. 3 II,
arthur Little was a clerk in the
drug store where, L used to get my
lunches. The attraction was mutual.
"We were very happy, planning cur
life together, but shortly he had an
offer to 60 to Seward, Alaska, and
was left, behind, 8S4.
TO Marry Soon. III
"Then he wrote that he wanted me
to go there and secure work. l went
/ was introduced to his friends, in tho
most select circle, as his fiance, and
we we're to marry soon. 8
You may think it is strange, but
all this time 4 had no thought OF Gin.
~cinnati. l was so sure of my own
parentage that those past years SEEM
| ed but a dream. 4
81 had told Arthur that had no
relatives and had been adopted by q
family, but lie had asked no questions
and / had volunteered no further in
formation -, ri
During my life there. Arthur's sis
ter came to regain her health. For
three monthsyI took care Of herl, and
kept her baby with, me me two weeks
s.ter she died, !
AT this time Arthur was very i'll
ard ! learned that love meant sacri.
Ifice, cay and night devotion, but I
was glad to make this, sacrifice. N
FINALLY we went to- Detroit and
were married.
. The Bitter Gold. ass,
"Not even then did the spectter of
my, foster mother Or any other grew
some shape come up to warn me-. |
knew that I was going to ..iye, happy
ever after
"You can imagine my surprise
when 1 found a letter that he had
written to his father, asking him to
come at once, that he intended to di-
vcEce me. 8 az ..Ps
q asked him what he meant, and
he told me it was true and that
could talk to. his attorney. He told
me $thatsI was extgaYagantTI who
had helped early and! late to build up
the business. at,. ii,
HE, didn't say anything abolthis
suspicion of. my, having coloreds blood.
Humiliation In Court.
"My attorney advised me to file
a bill Of separation Immediately,
which i did, and then I was confront.
ed with this awful story.
81 shall never forget that morning
in the courtroom. the look that my
husband gave me Us he passed me,
Or the contempt In the voice Of his
father when he said: She is nothing
but a niger wenoh,,
81 went home, let, down my blond
hair! to see if it had the slightest ne.
gro texture. ! pressed by nails
against each other to see II there was
the slightest tell-tale dark line.
pursed my rat.her thin lips to see if ]
could by any possibility mold them
into African form. ] even tried to
flatten out my nose, but thank God
/ could not do it. Through it all ]
saw my Scotch and English ancestry
found myself singing ct the top Of
my voice, I am white; I am all white.
"a Woman Without . Race"
Here am. worse than . man with
out a country. A woman Of no race;