Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-31
Loo Sing syvuh and His Letter.

Ny dear boys and girls, let me tell
you about letter written to you by
China boy who lives in the house
where do teach him to read. He
is now reading words Of three letters.
He is smart China boy, and has
Chinese education. He sends you his
New Years card. It would make a
nice wall ornament. At my request
lie writes YOU short letter, SO you can
see how the Cinnamon write. He is
not Christian. His name is Loo
Sing Wah. He was married at 49,
He is now %. His name before he
was married was Loo All Chung.
When Cinnamon get married they
change their names as well as the
women. When you read his letter,
you begin at the top Of the right-hand
corner and read down; then begin at
the top of the next, and so on. The
two marks in the first column read "a
letter" The second line reads: Cali
little white American school-boys and
white American schoolgirls, you will
get this letter." The third line: II
hope when you stay in that country
you go to school; be not lazy" The
fourth line: Il hope you are well and
are good to father and mother" The
fifth line: "Your teacher tells me to
write you Chinese letter for you to
look at" The sixth line: "Be good
like Chinese jesus" and the seventh
line: Learn about Chinese Jesus and
You will be good" The last line reads;
Loo All Chung"
We call Loo All Chung Jim, so you
see he has plenty Of names. Jim says
the poor boys in China cannot go to
school because they have to pay. He
went to school seven years. He got up
early, about six O'Clock, and went to
school. At nine he went home to
breakfast and returned, and at six went
to dinner. If boy did not study, his
| teacher hit him on the head with big
stick. Chinese girls never go to school,
never know how to read or write. They
stay in the house and sew and make
nice clothes. They all marry when
they are 16 or II years old.
\ China boy never sees the girl he Is
to marry until the day on which he is
to be married. A Chinaman never
claims his wife's relations, but claims
his own. So Jim calls his fathers
brother his uncle, but says his mothers
brother is no relation of his. He says
that when China boy who is mar
RED dies. the family cry for three
days; if he dies before he is mar
red, the family cry for two days. Ii
girl dies. the family cry one day, ano
ii a baby dies, they only cry little
While. After a body has been brlrlec
three years, they take it out OF the
ground and take the baaes and put
them in dish and bury them again
The better care man takes OF M
fathers and zsrandfather's ibones the
better luck the man and his chlldfei
are supposed to have.
One thing THAI seems virtuous IN the
shinamen is the great respect Il, they
have for their father and mother: Iha,
makes me think of what Jim said tina,
when Chinaman married he !brongh'
hls wife home to 1--we with has father
ana mother. When three or four hoJs
get married it makes pretty crowded
house, but that is the way they all DO
SO Jim sends his money to his father
and his father gives some to Jlms WE
II she asks him for some. When jim
sisters get married they go away 1e
their husbands fathers house. :.
Jim's pen is straight stick that y !
sharpened at one end. He holds II
straight up and down to write. He has
little tin dish, into which he puts