The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-11
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin, July lst.l
A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR
A Chicago Lady Becomes Infaiuated
with u Member OF the japanese
HTroupe-she LRys Siege 20 his Heart
mud wins 1.-THE Japanese has n
History-He asks the Tycoon for


scarcely day that we do rot see it il
lustrated most forcibly, and the conclus
ion generally arrived at is that woman
is full Of strange whims which one can
not understand, yet nnds it useless t
oppose. Very forcibly have we seek /
illustrated during the past week, i'll con
nectiOn with q company of foreign aero
bats and jugglers who have been per
forming in our midst.
There is no disputing the fact tina
the Japanese, asa people, are not hand
some, at least not in accordance will
the American ideas of beautyAindeed
most people do consider them repulsiv'
in the scale of beauty to the American
savage, whom nobody would like to bt
accused of calling handsome. 1t would
seem strange to our readers to be tOlt
that young lady-a lady of good fami
ly, of education and high standing, o
the highest respectability and very
pretty, could become SO completely in
fatuated with one of these jugglers a:
to be willing to forsake her parents, hel
home, her friends, her country, indeed
all that All American woman would be
supposed to consider dear To her, and b,
willing, nay, anxious to unite her des
TIMES with one of these men of whom
she knows so little. Nevertheless il il
no more strange than true.
While the Japanese were performing
! in Chicago they attracted the attention
of many of the first ladies of that city
who made them presents, and present
ed them with their photographs. II
was the fancy of an hour which gratiti
ed both parties and was forgotten by
both. There was one lady, however, q
daughter of a merchant of our neigh
boring city-a beautiful girl of eigh'
teen summers, who seems to have be-
come completely lost to the infatuation
and to have captivated entirely the
heart of one of the japanese, who has
the musically sounding name of Sing.
kee- -Chee. This worthy, as we learned
from the members of the company, has
somthing of a romance in his history
His father was a nobleman attached ia
the court of the Tycoon. He loved and
married girl in the lower class, very
pretty, very good, but not high blood,
ed. The Tycoon learned of it, and his
indignation was great. The nobleman
begged and prayed. 1t was no use. He
had insulted the dignity of the Tycoon.
There was but one way to make repara-
tion-to commit harakari-in plain
English to disembowel himself. The
Tycoon's word was law-and the noble
man died, his property going to the Ty-
coon. His wife, disOwned, Joined a
company of acrobats. Years after, this
same company was performing before
the tycoon. In the bamboo act, which
is his favorite, the Tycoon was much
struck with the daring of boy who
did wonderful things on the slender
reed. Upon inquiry. he learned that
the boy was none other than the sou OF
his once favOrite minister and friend,
and had high blood in his veins. He
took the hoy from the company and
trained and r,lucated him, for the frieNd.
shin he had once borne his father. This
boy grew up about the cOurt and was
none other than Sing -kee-chee, which
in Japanese means the son of Il noble.
man who had offended the Tycoon.
Sing Kee-Chec grew up about tn,
court, until he attained the age of "a
He has an excellent education aud speaks
several languages flueDtly. English he
also speaks we'll. With Sing Kee Chez
it was that the Chicago lady became
infatuated. He came out with the
company at the order of Tycoon, to
watch them and also to give ais high
ness history of the country, its people
and its customs. He is no common Jug
gler; although he delights i'll the bamboo
act which brought him before the fav'
orable notice ofthe Tycoon. The young
lady made his acquaintance in Chicago
talked with him and invited him to her
house where he made himself quite a
favorite. His history was known; and
the lady by one ofthOse romantic fancies,
which will in the eye of the world, some
times make fools ofthe most sensible,
learned to love him. Not for his good
looks certainly, for intelligent as he is,
and with the high blood coursing
through his veins. Sing Kee Chez is not
the most fascinating of the party. Per-
hans the lady loved him for the sacri-
fees of mis- father. Perhaps not. We
will not attempt to imagine the excuse
for the notion, to call it by no other
name. Sing-Kee-Chee was delighted
with the lady, but he had no further
thought, for he left her with no other
exchange than that of photograph, he
carving hers with those of other ladies,
which had been given him. At Detroit
Sing -Kee- Chez was surprised TO meet
the lady, who found the world blank
desert after her heart had become an
others and in Detroit Sing-kee-C Chez
| Srst began to discover the secret, and
to fell. too, that although his heart was
| pledged TO another in Japan, there wa:
an attraction for il here. lie did moi
discover this untllit was the subject o
a Joke by the members of the company
whom he one day surprised by the in
! formation that he loved the young Amer
| lean better than he loved the maiden O
his own land. This was a phase in the
affair that The company had not dream
ed of, and it was a startling one. They
told the lover to beware-that he mus
take lesson from the fate OF his fathel
who had loved without the consent o
the Tycoon, and if he persisted his faith
er's fate would be his. Siug-kee-che'
did remember this and epdcavored Il
Danish her from his heart, but it was {
useless task. The more he tried, tht
deeper he loved and, before the com
pany left Detroit he made the romantic
maiden's heart happy by declaring tha
he loved her, and if the Tycoon's con
sent could be gained by the strcuges
entreaties he should make her his wife
and with this assurance the maiden re.
turned to her parents in Chicago, wh'
are striving by every means In thei
power to eradicate the notion from he
mind.
Siug-kee-chee is obstinate and deter
mined. He has written 10 the Tycoon
the full account of the matter-he to:'
his love in the barbaric but expressive
language of his people, and has sent for
ward with this the testimony of all tn
Japanese, that the girl is of good fami
J " and respectable and worthy, that sh,
loves TO distraction and will be no dis
grace 10 the best blood of Japan. W,
are told by the interpreter that the pre-
sent Tycoon of Japan is young maj
who has high estimation of the Amer
lean people. and it is believed that ]
the parents of the Chicago lady will
give their consent to the union. Shicl
for very good reasons they at presen
withhold, the Tycoon will gladly yielt
his consent, as a step towards winnin!
the favor of the people of this grea