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id iuei under tneir nouers, and part is cuu m down into fiber by the use of chemicals.m —Boston Cultivator.d-MISCEGENATION FACTS.as The child of colored parents of different tints, such as quadroon and mu*n latto. or mulatto and black, will be • •in nearer the tint of the darker parent. in If both parents are of the same color, the child will be a shade darker, andm13 singularly enough, the second child will be darker than the first, the third darker than the second, and so on to er the last. In other words, a col-er ored community, left to itself, is fa-ue tally destined to return to the orignal Pe African black after a limited number of generations.hem-ss,ticadieinnifttelllaemnon-ceclhisen-vnd;er,insedThus, while each alliance with an individual of pure Caucasian blood brings the negro a stei^ nearer to the white standard, the reverse is the case the the moment the Caucasian element is withheld, and the color retrogrades from light K dark.A curious proof of this is found in observations made during some time in one of the islands. A mulatto woman had a female child by a white man; this girl gave birth to a quadroon by a white father, and this recrossing with the white race was kept up for six generations. An identical process of recrossing had been simultaneously noticed in another plantation. The children resulting from the seventh crossing in both of these families were of remarkable physical beauty; they had blonde hair, their complexion was of such transparent fairness that they might I have been taken for Albinos, but for • the vigor and gracefulness of their limbs and their brilliant intellect. The c^e most experienced eye could not have S’ I detected in them the slightest indication of their African origin. They ^tor-married. Their children were Clark comjdexioned, and the children of their anc* children are very dark mulattoes. pro- ineXorable law of nature is giveniarstheoer,p isiniave as one of the principal reasons why the °} Creoles refuse to intermarry with fami-^I1S lies who have the faintest tint of negro tlie blood in their veins, though their skins ma may be as fair as that of Europeans, orld Tj1(J creoles -wish tiieir posterity to re-uble majn w]iat they themselves are—whites.fact-;0ur- IlOW 11ET) HOT IS THEltED-lIOT SUN?ni10V A considerable amount of scientific
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Aurelia Sentinel
Aurelia, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 09, 1886
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