The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-12
IHIST N A GRAVEYARD.
nsAfC TERMINATION OF An orr
ENTAIL ROMANCE.
- he Death of Little Foot Ting
-. Nm Imported Chinese Beauty.
ceve 20 Hungry Hank and Ills


1NyE ren sas around a freshly made
grave IL Seattle cemetery z day
er tao ago ans feas.sd royalty.
Tfgey were rot eangIsals. ngs wer.
81 members % any anti superstition So
dsly.
asnnts and ysgaDoEds who wander oyer
fhe earth are sometimes called. ard hsw
On sas Their feast e the stars.
Te0 years ago q GhlRzmaD. known 10 a.
n1s4 every ClcAser business nan In Seafs8s
ressfea from active faeTca nglte sEse and ,ueaf
hsare to ca,na. I4et as cal hsa, wonx Yes
fpr - s.iil isyas here. IL bvwes. down in soy
fsy. SOD he ifas name woald adj but H.
- hisfcst 10 this tale waen sysnv Yen
ueaa kxck 10 China ne Was d rich sgtast ii
tbs wsslds soes.s. as the white man yeeA-
eGs wta.th, ard was consequently u mill
ionesse t. rs native land. Wong Yen ssst
hee fE0 wives, both "Blg-Ioggf" war1esz
81 .as real obgeef ~ h.s visit 10 chsaa
uu 10 secure for himself .sltt.e~eosItss
s.fe fer be Il knsw1 70 those who Go not
k-aw th.f Chinese women ars graded IN
thesr standing IA society. not BY they bean
fifsf faces or bright eyaE. aer xet fsy ffs.r
wealth. u hair, wofuas's crown OF gaSrv
bot by The size q their fo1f. ana Wong
Zen. beyond J esubf, bad III r1iua nia 1T
de-foet @4sa 10 ise purchased wssn he
h0Geat Ills two big foot wives T5sss IA
ressbEahie superstition. because 1t Is well
tnc~n that a t-ae little -fost Chinese gss~
man. one os the high class. Is unable IN
walk alone and must be supported wheF-
ever s:ae moves b. q pair If human
erufehea. which are usually furnished an
h Ncag Yen's case. by women Of the
bWsr order, married for that purpose be-
cause with the Chinese marriage 81 their
ewu country, and even In this. is a mater
ct purchase
Al any rate. wong Yea returned srom
China with a little foot wife How he
landed a woman thai eoula rot walk ard
had never been In ;h-s c9aatry il another
story. bts. suffice !. 20 rat Wong Yen Was
rich and inf'ueassa. I'll ne Northwest, as
be Is today. and IL landed his wife
Ting Lee sickcus and Dies.
Her name was Ting Les. and when she
was safely housed in Seattseta Chinatown
Wong Yen gave banquet 10 ali tha nisf-
chants. and Ting Lee sas beside him on MS
eonch and filled his opium pipe as often as
Der lord ard master wsshsG She Was A
pretty wouan. as Chinese women go and
had all the accomplishments 90 - little
foot" or course the biz foot wives sap
ported her On either side a. she moved
about the house or on the street In faes.
she could not walk without their support.
And tn addition 10 their duties as crafches
the blz foot wives did all shs work Of he
household. even 70 feeding TIns Tee. IA
order that her ingef-naii~ oYe. an lneh IN
length, should not be broken
But Ting Lee sickensd The Chinese doc
tor placed the paper image 81 her house
hold god beside her bed ard punk sticks
we're kept evsr burning before II. lie ssve
her powdered beetles naked with hegos and
frogs skin. bat she died.
Wong Yen snourned sigsa rsly, FOR ne
loved Ting Lc, even through he had bought
her and had muney enough iegs - bay mrt
one, hut twenty Ittle feet wiyes. As the
restaurants had been cailed upau Ga aid in
the srisbra;ioa ~ Ting Lees wes: fluE they
were now called open % all "a aer funeral.
wong Yen was no. stingY with TAG dead
wife lie hiee9 twenty uaourners iva
hands of ,npsle. heugaf "a douhle amount
OF punk ard pagers ana had raassaa fsr
Ting Ire On he Journey te tire heaven u
ronfnesus twe haGs. iivn a1fks tea eAiak
ems. together win the roasted e@tgAis
fowls heads AMI feet. ard scores II other
dslIcacies the Chinese gourmet leyes.
And then Taug lee @as eagtet away .
lie ia a grave uutn the flesh h8i aegaresi
frosa har bones. whsB tfev would b. us
Inferred and returned 20 fhe holy ground
IN china Her funeral was gorgs9a -~flse
rnousnefs In red and IN white. shs nau3s
aud all the hacks in the city, ta. Leading
funeral meats and driven by an Iisanan
smoking n pipe that was ~orss than the
burning punk.
The gorgeous funeral Pageant moved to-
ward the cemetery and i hfeewe caught tase
ARENA az the baked meats AID waited IL "a
the water front
Hungry Hanks BANQUET
Hungry Hank Wi.sen WAS sitting under
the edge az shed ons of fhe rair ansi tell
ing four companions sew be- hal 'aoasceJ
/, from ST Paul to Seattle au a easssnge
train. Hungry Haak Is aa l8eal yawslsand
He wouldn't sweep shadows pff hencfss in
the park al S. an hour. The uolisc ali know
hin and rate hsfa Simply man who
won't work Ia th@ chair sang ~ cat ~ g.
Raf Hungry Hank - Hot a menace - sscf~
ets other than possessing v0fstsoGs .,iass-
,its He VIII not stsRA Fos viii As cansstt
with thieves, and mare tnsn ene t&sey fas
soana his way 20 ja1 through Information
furnished ~ htm Iiuf N3sea s. ean1es 5e
"hunlrn.ng" grub there II u ; naaa Ia es atss
Ct the state that can taeca lfanA. gE;a sliss
Il was tbss when she pteszs waited ,ts
aroma - the funeral meats IF p21f iEl.e~
80. Tfus. .ee - she water frens H9astz
hank caught ehe safAf w'siG tie sra sAs~
eel iip. took saetAsr wasiS ans saen tlssf-
ssly Jumped fron ms sVas. a performance
taa& safeantsea hiR eemn2 nietsa
"Hunx Geet \ t'A,sese iaBftal. sure.
Gem. on, Gene ont' And Hank made
eee.H0e up iewn uatil he iarafei tee ese~
eessloa ~ the Scfeeeh ~ sae Avssts. sna
thsa e7e ave fosiowed an asala. ae' b.
Mind tl,e he1rse. bur ts3ltsd tha wagon VITA
the roasted pskS~sssssl af every step ~"
saxarv s.4ngs ~ ;he funeral meats w'sesiet
sAe3r sprNei.teS.
when shc cemetery wa reached iIRae
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