Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — Dresses For Congo Belles. [ARTICLE]

Dresses For Congo Belles.

According to the Svenska Dagblad, of Stockholm, the postal authorities at Brunswick have lately noticed that the mail bags dispatched to the Congo were not being duly returned, and after a lot of trouble they have discovered the reason. It appears that the colored postmen in the Congo Free State make presents of the mall bags to their wives or fiancees. These ladies simply cut out the bottom, and by drawing what is left over their heads, and, with the assistance of a piece of string, they have an ultra-modem ready-made costume. The fact that tht sacks are famished with an enormous black seal bearing the legend, “Brussels Centre,” does not disconcert them in the least.