| Show colored society in maryland colored society has rules as strict as the laws of the modes medea and persians it is full of circles and each succeeding circle holds itself proudly above the one just below it A colored aristocrat is one oe of the most perfect pictures of conscious exclusiveness delusiveness that the world has ever known these aristocrats copy the white bite folks closely and readily adopt any new kink that fashion furnishes their social entertainments are really very expensive affairs aad the dressing is on a scale of magnificence with a plenitude of color and an amplitude of corsage bouquets that the queen of sheba might inight envy the lie youths try to rival one another in the th size of boutonnieres and expanse of shirt bosom while the maidens I 1 affect white satin itin slippers and swans down fans tho the society events ar are a always described at length in the weekly papers published by the colored men for the colored people these accounts are noted for their thorough originality and big adjectives adjective 6 baltimore cor new york times |
