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Evening Star, Issue 14574, 24 May 1911, Page 7

A BLACK NECK AND A QUICK WIT. It is the curious practice in same parts of Africa to provide women as an escort on the journey from one chief to another, and the ladies of the caravan were not overawed. To one girl, wrote Mr Brooke : —“ I made a remark about their aversion to the free use of water, saying they would bo really good-looking if they would only keep themselves dean, and by way of contrast pointed to my neck, saying: ‘Yours might bo as white as mine if you would only use soap and water.’ Her neck as I spoke was as black ns an African’s. But for all that she was a sharp wilted, rather good-featured lass, of about eighteen, and the quick reply I got was: ‘Yes, your skin may be white, but your heart is blacker than my neck.’ I was not aware that I had said or done anything to merit the remark, but 1 had to take it in good grace.” For children’s hacking cough at night. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d. • -Udrt.]