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Title: The Colored Girl Beautiful

Author: E. Azalia Hackley

Release Date: February 21, 2010 [EBook #31340]

Language: English

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The Colored Girl Beautiful

THE

COLORED GIRL

BEAUTIFUL

By

E. AZALIA HACKLEY

Author of "A Guide in Voice Culture" and
"Public School Lessons in Voice Culture."

BURTON PUBLISHING COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

Copyrighted 1916
By E. Azalia Hackley

Dedication.

To colored women in whom I have faith and to colored children whom I
love, I send this little message.

Foreword.

This volume has been compiled from talks given to girls in colored
boarding schools. The first talk was given at the Tuskegee Institute at
the request of the Dean of the Girls' Department.

It was an impromptu talk after an hour's notice. Just before the Dean
closed the door to leave me alone with the girls, I repeated my
question, "What shall I talk about?" The reply was, "Tell them anything
you think they should know. They will believe an experienced woman like
you who travels and knows the world and life."

As I looked at the sea of faces, "wanting to know," and as I thought of
all they had to learn, the vastness of all of it almost overpowered me.
"May I sit down, girls? Now, what shall we talk about that is
interesting to every one of you?"

"Would you like to talk about Love--real Love?" "Yes, yes," came the
answer. "Would you like to talk about Beauty--real Beauty?" "Yes! Yes!"
they answered and the chairs were pulled forward. For forty minutes we
had a heart to heart talk. The dean and teachers had perhaps tol