The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
White Men in West
Africa Have Two Wives
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with her hand as some tamll!ar
beast. She feels under her hand the
flesh of the male black. firm and
smooth as Russian leather, She
comes nearer, placing her skin
against his. noting the contrast be-
tween the black and the white. As
to the rest of that love scene. one
had best omit it, and finish with the
words of the author: "And she it
was who took off Gorko's loin cloth"
This is in Africa, but scenes even
more astonishing happen all over
Europe, numerous instances of which
have come to my notice, not to speak
of America.
TIL c late Maximillian Harden,
great German journalist, told in Die
Zukunft how the aristocratic Ger
man ladies used to inveigle the
blacks from Hagenbeck's circus,
while Ivan Block, in his Sexual Life
of Our Times" deals with the same
matter as it affects white women in
general. ...
De Coussan at last acquires a
Negro virgin for 500 francs, Supple
and beautiful as q stalk of wheat in
the wind" She is a virgin, just as
her parents said he would find her.
"See," said her mother proudly af
ter the consummation of the mar
riage, 81 gave her to thee virgin.
Now you are her husband" And she
tore off the white band, symbol of
virtue, from the waist of the girl.
In the eyes of the whites in Amer
lea the blacks are supposed to be i'm
moral but one of the characters,
Bresse, says: Eyes, it is the blacks
who have a right to protest against
us, and our stupid, sterile activity.
| | came to be their teacher to civilize
them. Civilization! What a fine
humbug! We give them our vices
without getting rid of ours"
The white women in the story,
just rs they do in Europe, America,
! and other parts of Africa, teach the
/ Negro women. Lesbian practices,
entirely unknown to them before.
De Coussan is very happy with his
! black sweetheart, and meets from
time to time white men who are also
happy with theirs. One of these is
/ Pacouda. Tolstoyan figure, beloved
! of the blacks, and with a large brood
| of mulattoes. He speaks lovingly of
| France, but declares that he would
| not leave. Africa to live there again
so much HIS he become attached to
the people and the land.
Leaves But Returns.
But now there is breach in the
happy relations of De Coussan and
| his black concubine. A white sweet
! e 20 hi
comes to Africa in search of him.
He installs her in villa that costs
him considerable money just about
the time when his financial state is
on the way to recovery. This white
woman, Yvonne, naturally entertains
a strong dislike for her black rival,
and the Negroes in general. The
Count. finally leaves his black sweet
heart, Mouk,. and she is taken by
another.
But he finds it impossible to for
get the black woman, and the
triumph of the latter is complete
when the Count rejects the white
Yvonne and returns TO her. Quite
overcome by her loss the Negro
hating Yvonne is carried back to her
home, and is lying on a divan, grief
stricken. Then she hears a sound
outside. Is it the Count returning
No, it is the black Gorko. And his
purpose is the so-called unspeakable
crime. She ressts at first, but,
"little by little the caresses of the
savage won her. She abandoned her
self. and the brute did not perhaps
realize the pleasure that he had Just
given her.
"When he had fled through the
window as a thief, an immense de-
spair invaded Yvonne.
Her lover preferred this black
woman to her."
A rather different ending this
from a lynching.
The Count, happy once more, plans
to return to the inexpensive life he
had been leading with Monk. But
the latter has learned a few things,
in addition to Lesbian tricks. The
Count had lodged the white sweet
heart in fine villa, why should she
not have the same? "She wished to
live in the house of the white woman,
to have like her bed with silken
cover, and servants.
Robert 1.-THE Count was stupe-
fled. His black sweetheart, once so
docile, who had changed her into
this scolding and clamorous Negro
female? "a
1--WE were so happy here, Mouk...
But she broke into vehement lamen-
tations. He had been willing to do
it for chat skinny white woman,
why not for her? She wept with
rage.
"That same night Monk slept in
Yvonnes' bed" Yvonne had re-
turned to France.
Goes Into Exile for Woman.
The Count, with the expensive
black conc zine on his hands,
plunges deeper and deeuer into debt
To get money he sells secret re.
garding an important contract. The
governor. who has been kindness it.
self to the Count, discharges him,
and offers to send him home, but
the lure of Africa and of Monk is
too strong. Finally the husband OF
Nine. Heliet has compassion on him,
and sends him off to manage a farm
in a lonely and dangerous region
The Count, however, has Monk with
him, and that is a great consolation.