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48 THE CRISIS ADVERTISER SCHOOL OF BEAUTY CULTURE AND HAIR DRESSING KELSEY'S 328 Lenox Avenue Telephone Harlem 1896 126th Street, NEW YORK. Manicuring, Shampooing, Hair Dressing, Marcel Waving, Facial and Body Massage, Hair Making, Chiropody, etc., scientifically taught. Unlimited practice in parlor day and night. Pupils taught at home, if desired. Diplomas. Special Summer Course, $7.50 up. Send for booklet. Mme. A. Carter Kelsey, Gen'l Intr.; Dr. Samuel A. Kelsey, Chiropodist, President and Gen'l Manager. [---] Reddick's World's Greatest Polishing Mitt A HOUSEHOLD WONDER PROTECTS THE HAND SAVES TIME AND LABOR Thousands of users say it's the best polisher on earth for silverware, signs, guns, harness, pianos, furniture, automobile bodies, lamps, etc., etc. Made—like cut—of special tanned lamb's wool on the hide, and has a protected tip. [[image]] Same mitt adopted by the Pullman Company, for porters' use on the best trains. A few large users: All Nixon & Zimmerman theatres; the Gladstone, Walton, Blenheim Hotels, Philadelphia, Traymore, Shelburne, Atlantic City; Knickerblocker, New York, and other hotels, garages and many ocean liners, yachts and a thousand households. Price 25 cents each postpaid. Special prices to large users. A splendid proposition for agents. It sells on sight. Write to-day for particulars. J.E. REDDICK 1029 South 17th Street Philadelphia, Pa. [---] Telephone 3253 Harlem CARPET CLEANING Cleaners and Renovators For Particular People New York Careful Cleaning Bureau 12 West 135th Street We make a specialty of cleaning and renovating carpets, rugs, portières and upholstered furniture; we also vacuum clean in the home. We are not the largest carpet cleaner in the world, but absolutely the most careful in every detail. SHAMPOOING CARPETS AND RUGS OUR SPECIALTY [---] FOLDING BATHTUB [[image]] Costs little, no plumbing, requires little water. Weight 15 pounds, and folds into a small roll. Full length baths, far better than the tubs. Lasts for years. Write for special agents offer and description. Robinson MFG. Co., 111 Vance St., Toledo, O. Mfrs. Turkish Bath Cabinets. [---] The HARRIET TUBMAN Neighborhood Club For the Benefit of the Detention Home for Colored Girls Will present for the first time a dramatic pantomime of scenes from "Macbeth," "Merchant of Venice," "Othello," and a grouping of pictures showing some of the struggles of the greatest heroine, Harriet Tubman, at Young's Casino, East 134th Street and Park Avenue, on November 15, 1912. General admission, 50 cents; boxes, seating eight and ten persons, $4 and $6. Mr. Charles Burroughs is director of the pantomime; Mrs. Dora Cole Norman, instructor of dance; Mrs. Daisy Tapley, in charge of chorus; Marie Jackson Stuart, president and manager. Music by New Amsterdam Orchestra—Prof. Pastor Penalver, leader. [---] Real Estate [---] Valuable Texas Lands For Sale Large tracts of farm land in the best localities of the State for sale at very flattering prices. Small tracts of good lands suitable for farming, truck, fruits and any domestic product. We have for sale a number of large farms already in cultivation, good houses an ' barns, wells, and nice pasture lands, which can be obtained at reasonable rates. City property a specialty. Business lots in the best of the city, improved and unimproved. Large lots suitable for factory property with switch facilities. No investment can be more valuable than an investment in Texas real estate. Lands are becoming so valuable that they are doubling themselves in value in less than a year's time. For any investment in Texas property, write T. B. Madison Real Estate Company, 2415 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas. [---] To Colored People FOR SALE—We have houses from $1,000 to $30,000. Our city is the capital of Ohio and a great manufacturing center—plenty of work, a good place to locate for business. Can sell you a house for $50, $100 to $500 down, balance like rent. For investment and speculating houses or business places, $1,000 to $5,000 down, balance on long tine payment. Farm land prices from $1,000 to $10,000 up. Any of these are in good locations. Write for further information. THIS IS A COLORED ENTERPRISE. EDWARD A SHANKLIN Real Estate 1218 1/2 Mt. Vernon Ave. Columbus, Ohio Mention THE CRISIS. THE CRISIS ADVERTISER 49 "HALF A MAN" The Status of the Negro in New York By MARY WHITE OVINGTON With a foreword by Dr. Franz Boas of Columbia University Chapter I. How the colored people won their civil and political rights. Chapter II. and III. The Negro tenement and the life of the poor. Chapters IV. and V. How the colored man earns his living, with a full description of the professions; the ministry, the stage. Chapter VI. The colored woman, her discouragements and successes. Chapter VII. A vivid description of the life of the well-to-do Negroes. Chapter VIII. The Negro in politics in New York. Chapter IX. The author's personal views on the race question. Price $1.00; by mail, $1.12. LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., Publishers, NEW YORK This book is for sale in the Book Department of The Crisis, 26 Vesey St., N. Y. PRINTING IS ART It is not the expensive machinery and high-grade paper stock alone, but it is those things plus correct type formations and artistic blending of colors with textures combined with superior workmanship. Progressive business men appreciate the business-building qualities of stationery, catalogues and printed things produced in our shop. Mr. Condé Nast, of Vogue, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, of THE CRISIS, and Prof. J. E. Spingarn are among our satisfied patrons. Write for samples and quotations. ROBERT N. WOOD, Printing and Engraving 202 EAST 99th STREET NEW YORK 'Phone 6667 Lenox Mention THE CRISIS
