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Show A ITCLUAIt .SOt ML UIUU.MA-TION. UIUU.MA-TION. It Is not strange to learn that Chicago leads in social developments as well as In trade, commerce, enter-I enter-I rite and energy, On January 6lh of the current jear the Mamuueh Boclety waaorganlwdlu thatclly. Its mem-Unhlp mem-Unhlp now com lite of 120, and la composed entlrelyof colored men who have married whltt wive. The IiiallflcatloDs for mtmbershlp are a 1 lack or dark cuticle ou the art of the mile, a legal nmrlage, a good character, charac-ter, a ruro white wife, and conclusive evidence that a decent moral life U being lived. It appears tliattu Chicago there aro 430 colored men married to white women. Thee mlacegt natoni have no social status, T hoy are oitraclaed ly both races. They can not look within the portal of cither the black or white 400,henci the Idea of Instituting a 400 of their own. A few days ago they gavu a grand ball at which some 300 black men with white wives participated. partici-pated. One ot the promoters, Lewis Proctor, n colored man, gave n Chicago TYAun.9 reporter the following account of the new 400. "Iho mnrrlagu of colored men to white women hu alwa)n been looked upon with criticism by both rnces, audit Mna fortbopurposo of removing this ating that tho kocloty wn founded. balerer lubllo opinion may bo, tho fitct retrain i that Ifa woman really loteaa manahola willing to marry him, la he black or while, honorabloordUhonorabte. Inaa-rouch Inaa-rouch a this la true, aomo rotU.on must bo made f r the aoclal uccua of thU chi, nhkti la banlshol 'from every other. As a rulo ll must bo admitted that those whlto women who have married mar-ried colorod men haro beonof tho dasa which had nothing toloHO. t ouaeqocntly m e aro obllgol to au the utmost tRlbnto In Bilailtlinir inembet und ronulro a guarantee of au honorablo life. Ko eena-ItU eena-ItU o to comment aru many of our people that they hare ceased to go to church. Now this U radically wron and wealiall doall Inonr jHtrter to luduco members to attend church nnd bring up their children chil-dren lit the Christian f ilih. 1 en lu tho short period nf our exWicuce good result haelHaobulued, and wo thlnkaait Held for usefulnosa U o-eu to us." Theru Is aomtithlug tnexi resslbly re-pugnuutln re-pugnuutln the inUturo oftheC'au-call oftheC'au-call an with the negro race. |