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Show i COIXRED OPULENCE One of the spiniest weddings ever held in America was recently celebrated cele-brated in Harlem. The decorations and accessories for the church ceremony cere-mony alone cost $20,000. and the 9000 invitations issued to witness it are said to have been sent to practically practi-cally every country in the world. The participants in this ceremony were Miss May Walker Robinson, daughter daugh-ter of the richest negress in th world, and Dr. Henry Gordon Jackson Jack-son of Chicago. Blase old N'ew York has seldom been treated to such a display of magnificence, save when the daughter daugh-ter of one of the famous, welathy old families espoused a foreign title. Police restrained the multitude, who iined the sidewalks, while costly l;p ouslnes roiled up and dischari:--1 their faultlessly garbed guests. K i: -and jt'Wcls in profusion j....k-ck-.d i!;v forms of many of the women Never before in the I'nited States had a negro wedding been held in sin :-magnificent :-magnificent style and few have' bc-:. the white ones that have equaled The bride was the daughter ci Madame C. J. Walker, the negro woman wo-man who made a million dollars ;e t of the preparation she invented take the curl out of negroes' hair.! Just as her white sisters spend th-'r surplus change on having a fri.-z; cooked into their straight locks vi;..j the permanent wave, so does the co'-ored co'-ored belle have h- r natural kink removed. re-moved. Whatever we haven't is what we crave, whether we be of Afrirrtn or Anglo-Saxon descent. |