How Beauty Was Saved

row streets between them, many of the little homes adorned with bright-hued

mney corner, smoking his pipe while he deftly wove white-oak splints into cotton baskets; the mother, mending, o

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well housed, and when ill they were we

es in broad fireplaces, fires w

ent to church, either to the "white folkses' church," where an up

zed from society, and made to feel the disapprobation of their neighbors. So general was th

ungovernable temper would be severe in punishing an offender; but h

nd there the babies and small children were cared for by th

." On Sunday afternoons the white children were often sent to read the Bible to the old colored people, and the children thought it quite an honor.

ad—balls, parties, and weddings galore! The white family and their guests would be cordially invited down, and they always enjoyed the festivities. Noblesse oblige was recognized everywhere, and we felt bou

of them were noble and self-sacrificing. After the war many of them remained at the old homestead with their former own

al equality" can never exist in the South, but the race can be, and many of them are, well educated, happy and prosperous:

ose negroes who have been reared in the South, and know the old traditions, are law-abiding citizens with com