Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1902 — Civilizing Negroes in Africa. [ARTICLE]

Civilizing Negroes in Africa.

Great changes have been mahe among the negroes of German East Africa. They now use plates, cups, glasses, saucers, looking-glasses, spoons, knives, umbrellas and occasionally clocks; they call for soap and for kerosene. In their market places they are Been drinking tea with sugar at table. The women have adopted European clothes and make gse of sewing machines, even in the Interior districts.