Progress and Achievements of the Colored People Containing the Story of the Wonderful Advancement of the Colored Americans—the Most Marvelous in the History of Nations—Their Past Accomplishments, Together With Their Present-day Opportunities and a Glimpse Into the Future for Further Developments—the Dawn of a Triumphant Era. A Handbook for Self-improvement Which Leads to Greater Success

Don’t mind what the “other fellow” says, or thinks, in these matters that concern only yourself and those nearest and dearest. Live so as to make the very most and highest of th...

It is said that business is hard, and knows no yielding; that when a man promises to do a thing, he MUST do it whether he can or not. This is nonsense, business is like every ot...

If we could get angry with ourselves because we do not improve, that would be an anger worth cultivating. But so far as others are concerned, let your anger be mild and never re...

If goods could be delivered at your place of business at the invoice or purchase price, the selling price might cover some profit. But complications begin as soon as you have ma...

The doctor is a specialist. Something ails your eyes—you must go to an eye specialist, the throat specialist knows nothing about the eyes. Have you a fever? You go to a bacterio...

In case of sunstroke get the patient into the coolest place you can, loosen the clothes about his neck and waist, lay him down with his head a little raised, and cool him off as...

The ancients had a maxim to the effect that there should be a healthy mind in a healthy body, and that there could not be a healthy mind in an unhealthy body.

Every man thinks he knows just what he would do under certain circumstances if he had the opportunity, and that he has the power to do it. Very well, here are the opportunities,...

Nothing is so important as the baby’s diet. Of course the mother’s milk is the food nature intended for him, but frequently the supply is not sufficient for his needs, and there...

No discussion of industrial education is complete without reference to the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, who in this field attained world-wide fame and brought more to the caus...

The pleasures accompanying the appetite are legitimate and useful in their proper indulgence, and are necessary to life and existence. The child, naturally born, will soon displ...

The prospective and nursing mother should receive especial consideration. It should be known and recognized that her requirements for wholesome food, and above all wholesome sur...

Corrosive sublimate is, perhaps, the most powerful germicide known, a solution of one part in a thousand, or a little more than a drachm to a gallon of water, being amply suffic...

All men were created for a special purpose, and every man who has reached the age of reason knows what that purpose is. It is a law of that man’s nature which he must obey or ta...

It must be admitted, to be strictly just, that without advantages of education or uplifting environment, the races are also equal in ignorance and prejudice. A perusal of any of...

The Genius of Colored Americans in Literature; The Arts and Sciences Inherited From the Ancient Ethiopians Read, Study, and Educate up to Opportunities—A High Racial Type Appear...

In connection with church or religious matters, the work of the Colored Women’s Christian Temperance Union should not be forgotten. This great national association makes for mor...

The power that impels him is dynamic. It grows out of an inertia charged with the vibration of living eternal forces—a training that fits him to propel himself into chaos and ev...

Speaking roughly, raw meat of ordinary quality consists of water seventy-five per cent, albumen and nitrogenous matters twenty per cent, and fat five per cent. Although meat bec...

The Jews have ages of learning and wisdom to fall back upon, and the African, although interrupted in his advance, by ages of repression, nevertheless has the ages of high civil...

In the days when open fireplaces were almost the only means of heating houses they were of great value in aiding ventilation. Nowadays our stoves, radiators and furnaces do not...

The nine larger C. M. E. schools are: Miles Memorial College, Birmingham, Alabama; Holsey Academy, Cordele, Georgia; Homer College, Homer, Louisiana; Mississippi Industrial Coll...

There are now more than one hundred and fifty-three organs of the Colored Americans, edited and managed exclusively by them, and devoted to their interests as well as to the cau...

These people present no example worth being followed, but as to the descendants of the real savage American Indian, the Sioux, Algonquins, and other large and savage warrior tri...

_Miner Fund._—The Miner Fund has property valued at $40,000, and the annual income is about $2,100. This income is used for the aid of the Manassas Industrial Institute for Colo...

CONTAINING THE STORY OF THE WONDERFUL ADVANCEMENT OF THE COLORED AMERICANS—THE MOST MARVELOUS IN THE HISTORY OF NATIONS—THEIR PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS, TOGETHER WITH THEIR PRESENT-D...

The American Missionary Association owns and supervises 29 schools for Negroes in the Southern States. The Association also owns property in other schools and makes contribution...

With the beginning of 1863, immediately after the Emancipation Proclamation, a call was made for Negroes to enlist in the United States Army, to which there came a ready respons...

_Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church._—The Woman’s Home Missionary Society owns and maintains 12 home schools for girls. Eight of them are connecte...

Rulings and instructions relative to the acts of Congress of August 30, 1890, and March 4, 1907, in aid of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts.—“To be applied only to inst...

The extent and character of the educational work done by the white churches are emphatic evidence that these churches have recognized the great opportunity for service in behalf...

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If people ate more fruit they would take less medicine and have much better health. There is an old saying that fruit is gold in the morning and lead at night. As a matter of fa...