The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-06
LITTLE CHINESE MAID
ARRIVES IN ST. PAUL ON THE
GREAT NORTHERN COAST
TRAIN
HER PARENTS ARE WITH HER

Pretty Celestial Romance Surround
Ing the Marriage of Her Father
and MOther-The Latter an ORR
entail Lady of Quality in Every
Respect-Her Husband an Official
of the Great Northern Railroad.
A little Celestial maiden was the queen
of hearts on the Great Northern coast
train which arrived in St. Paul yester-
day afternoon. Dressed in her quaint
| oriental consume and with her demurely
shy ways, she captiyated the affections of
all the ladies on the train from Port
Townsend, Wash, into St. Paul. She was
travelling with her mother, Mrs Lam
| Sheng, of the wealthy merchant family
of Lam, Hong Kong, China, and her
father Gnu Moy Yen, who Is a China
man born, but an American in eyerv
| other respect, since he came to the Unit
ed States, when only six years old, and
| has lived here ever since Mr.. Yen is
employed by the immigration department
| Of the Great Northern in New York CITY.
and though he has been a married man
for eight years, his wife and child have
just come to this country.
rather pretty romance surrounds the
| marriage of Mr.. Yen and his little Chinese
wife. She was considered one of the
Chinese beauties of Hong Kong before
her marriage, and was the daughter of a
wealthy tea merchant who had ammased
| fortune in the trade with the United
States. The elder Lam was a man of
| liberal views for Chinaman, and was
heartily in sympathy with closer relations
between the Flowery Land and the United
States. Thus 1t was that eight years ago
when Mr.. Yen, for the first time since
coming to America, returned on a visit to
China, and met the daughter of the tea
merchant. Woo Fong Wun, the son of a
government official In Hong Kong. had
also met the maiden and negotiations
were pending between the families of
Lam and Wun, looking towards their
| union. But Chu Moy Yen had the adj
vantage of an American training. and
went after the father of the young lady,
Owing to the liberal views of the elder
Lam, he was well received, and succeed
ed in making an impression which at all
events lasted long enough to enable him
to gain the affections of the young lady
Of his heart, and induce her father to
consent to his becoming her sutton. On
an adjustment Of claims he won out and
their marriage followed. Some months
later Mr.. Yen returned to the United
immigration department of the Great
Northern in New York,
Mrs. Yen remained In China and, though
her husband made another trip to China
the year following, would not consent to
return with him. This summer she con-
sented, and with her little daughter 30
left Hong Kong for Port Townsend Her
husband met her there and brought her
East, on his way to his New York home
jc n OT-ian FOL 1adI
every respect. She has received the ad-
vantage Of an education which is a. favor
accorded few Chinese women, and speaks
English, Very brokenlE 10 be sure. but
with sufficient command to make herself
understood Little Bo has not mastered
the language so WELL though she smiles
prettily and says Pretty, pretty when
pleased. ss1ts. =
The costumes of the mother and her
child were quaint and attractive. Both
were dressed alike, with the single ex-
ception of color, the head sbeing uncover
ed, and the garments consisting of a
Voluminous over dress of silk with flowing
sleeves, and silk trousers covered with
very wide sash of the finest silk. Mrs
Yen wore an over dress of blue silk while
b was dressed in lavender, trimmed with
black. The seams were covered with the
da1ndest Of silk embroidery, and both
wore jewels. Little Bo had a circIet Of
velvet with pendants of strings of pearls
at the end of which were sapphires, and
wore ear rings set with turQuoises and
small diamonds Mrs. Yen wore a mag
nificent pair of turquoise ear rings, carved
in the shape Of a crescent, and the Slip
per5 Of white silk, which encased feet
hardly half the size of those of her little
daughter, were embroidered with garnets
turquoises and sapphires. Her long black
hair was caught with a bow set with a
large number Of exceptionally brilliant
pearls.
Mr.. Yen and his family remained in St.
Paul last night, while he visited General
Passenger Agent Whitney, of the Great
Northern. They will leave today for New
York by way Of Chicago.