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were ordered for the front and side. Big blinds were put up in front to
conceal the dctivities going on inside. Saturday night a great force labored
all night to be ready for Sunday's window opening.

Purple hats, fancy gowns and colorful parssols, sosethet
with high-heeled shoes for the women, and canes, bright jackets, bathrobes
and dressing gowns for the men were on display in the show windows of this
general storee On Sunday down the main thoroughfare of the village came
the colored people. This fairyland of display windows amazed the colored
populatione Throngs gathered around this window all day. Both the men and
women had seen things that they desired to have On Monday morning the
factory was buzzing with activity becaust it seemed that every one reported
for work. Instead of the carousals and drunkenness these colored people
had turned suddenly serious and soberly prosperous because they desired those
beautiful things that money could buye

The factory became a scene of busy activity. The
directors were no longer troubled regarding their labor situation, and
this young boy who had not learned much out of books but much from people

pointed the way to continued prosperitye