DUSKY BELLES IN WASHINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1538, 16 January 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

DUSKY BELLES IN WASHINGTON.

The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writer — "There are some very beautiful coloured girls here just of that cafe an lait color so exquisite when accompanied by features.'. One pretty Creole married an officer of the Freedman's Bank, a coloured man, who formerly played the piano for private germans, etc. He built her a fine house, and took her to Niagara on the bridal trip. She was married in a white satin dress, with orange blossoms and tulle vail! Another girl, so nearly white that the African blood would never be suspected, was highly educated and an accomplished musician. Her eyes were large and lustrously black, like those of the Spanish woman; her hair as purple as the raven's wing; her complexion creamy, with the faintest suspicion of coleur de rose; her lips full and scarlet; her form graceful and rounded; her hands and feet wonderously tiny. Her father intended to take her abroad, where his pedigree.was unknown, ,or if discovered foreigners would not show the horror of negro blood evinced by Americans ; then he hoped his daughter's beauty, accomplishments and wealth might attract Caucasian wooers. But-alas ! for his fond hopes, true to her race she married a black man, son of a restaurateur, and broke her' father's heart, as well as his pride."

When a Baltimore husband gets col^a^d careless and forgets his hpme^hjfffwife puts up a letter "from an ,adn|»*€iv" asking her to elope, and all_|fc<v*nd the husband's early love repuri* a» «oon as he finds the