The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-31
WICKED LITTLE YIN CHoIE.
She Became a Christian, Married a
Heathen and Eloped With Sweep.
From the San Francisco Examiner.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
! Yin Choie and Christianity do not mix.
At any rate, that is what Wong All Mi
in effect says, and Wong All Mi, being Yin
Choices husband, and a good Chinee at
that. ought to know Yin Choie has the
| lOveliest little tOOtsie wOOtsies. She
smiles slantwise, as all little Chinese girls
do, and when she laughs it sounds like
dried peas rustling in a tea caddy. Time
was when little Yin ChOie was just like
any other little heather girl, and ate rice
with a skewer and all that Time was
when little Yin Choie was a symphony in
| alabaster. But all that is thing of
Little Yin Choie is criminal
now and poor Wong All Mi is amounting.
Little Yin ChOie had almond eyes and
penchant for spiritual things in her early
youth, but the unhappy vicissitudes of
fate carried her a slave to the boudoir of
little foot" woman on SpoffOrd alley.
Poor little Yin Choie pOndered like the
dickens over her hard fate for time,
then one eventful night scuttled away,
like thing in the night, and went to the
Presbyterian mission. Miss CulbertSOn
welcomed her with open armS--just as
she welcomes all other brands from the .
burning-and she took her in and she
taught her how to be good; and presently
little Yin Choie, with her deli
cate ways and her almond eyes,
became converted Then it
was that Wong All Mi appeared on the
scene and winked at little Yin ChOie
through the close drawn curtains of the
mission. Maybe little Yin Choie winked
back. Maybe again she didn't. Christian
or heather, when it comes to winking,
nearly all little girls are the same. Any
how, Mi laid himself out for the convert
and won her. Now, if ever there was a
heather it was Wong All Mi; but even
had he been a goddess atheist, without
even joss to pray to, little ChOle would
have loved him Just the same, winkS or
no winkS. Therefore, when he came to
Miss Culbertson one day and said: ''Me
alice same big, fine cOOkee Me alice same
heap like lillee Yin Choice that estimable
lady saw fit TO consult her new convert on
the subject.
Well, little Yin Choie said that she re-
CiprOcated Mis- gentle passion, and Miss
Culbertson told the lady to go in peace.
Mi prospered as a cook in divers families
Yin ChOie prOspered as IA fond mother at
home. The home where Mi used to
meander every evening was al Prospect
place. There were seven fond celestial
mothers with babies in their arms in the
sitting room yesterday. Wong Mi was
nowhere in sight Wong All Mi is inter-
eSting because his spouse, the christian
lied but tickle Yin ChOie, has elOped with
heather dude and poor Wong is left in
his lonely house with only seven other
jealous mammals in the house to look after
the physical interests of his 7-month-old
baby. And right here be it said that no
one would ever have heard of All Mi or
Yin ChOie if she had not proved herself
no true Chinese and foated off on the
wings of an elopement with a festive
lOthario, one All Lee.
All Lee was sweep but he loved Yin
ChOie, or at least he said so. Yin Choie,
who was as tickle as she was Christian,
liked to hear him say it; and in her
native tongue spoke softly and in the
tones of a canvas-back duck said: but
why not elOpe if you love me so?" Poor
All Lee in lieu of any other course quietly
pawned what clothes he held awaiting
redemption in his laundry, and on the
proceeds one night he took out Yin ChOie
and escorted her to parts unknown.
Wong Mi, who has done plain cooking for
divers Christian families, returned to his
home at Prospect place that evening
and found that little Yin Choie was not
there. Well, then there were metaphor
zeal fireworks, and Wong All Mi said
things that won't bear translation.
81 go catch him one headen wife," said
he, land she no run away She plenty
fraid to run away. l go catch him one
Christian gal and she alice same play
Wong was surprised, and small blame
to him for being so, for such thing was
outside of his celestial ethics and had
never occurred in Chinatown before. She
was an acknowledged Christian, stupid
little girl, no doubt, but withal the mother
of his child. Wong reflected that the
Christian views of his wife entitled her to
Christian justice, and therefore it was
that he packed down the 7-mOnth-old
baby that his wife had deserted to police
court No. 3 yesterday and demanded that
Judge JOachimsen should there and then
return to him his lost Yin and her alleged
beguiler, All Lee. Save and except Wongs
word there were no proofs of All Lees
guilt, but his honor issued a warrant and
Wong went on his way rejoicing. If All
Lee has really beguiled away. Wongs
Christian wife he will be worse off than
he would be in China where a few dollars
more or less would entirely fix the matter.
His crime is felony, for which he may
suffer a sentence of seven years. This
all goes to show that whether in China
or California, under the heather code or
the Christian, the course of true love
never did run smooth.