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prejudice; and their investigator discov- 

 ered that when pure mulattoes marry there 

 is no certainty about the color of the chil- 

 dren. The color and features vary from 

 that of the pure black negro to the pure 

 white Caucasian. One child out of every 

 sixteen is jet black and one is pure white — 

 and the other fourteen range in shade from 

 black to white; the physical features and 

 brain powers vary in the same manner. Our 

 Government must have at least a Colored 

 Registry, or our grandchildren will be mar- 

 rying mulattoes. 



An English subject, a graduate of one of 

 her most important universities, met and 

 married the beautiful daughter of a promi- 

 nent American. Their wedding was quite 

 a social affair. They afterwards sailed 

 from Boston to visit his family, who 

 owned a plantation on a West Indies 

 Island. 



They were met at the dock by his par- 

 ents. One look was enough ! She had mar- 

 ried into a negro family. She fell in a 

 faint; but silently, she accepted the situa- 

 tion. Her first born was jet black with 

 straight black hair. 



