The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
FROM OVER The SEA-
Beautiful Bellies Of
Hawaii Coming to
This Country.
THE CHARMING All FONG SISTERS
Romantic Stories Of the
Young Women Have
Preceded Them.

The announcement that the beautiful
All Fong sisters of Honolulu will visit
this country in the fall making stops
of considerable length in Washington
and Philadelphia before going to New
York, has aroused considerable inter-
est, says the Philadelphia Times, and
it is expected they will be entertained
by society as the lions" or rathea
"lionesses" of the season.
For years naval officers vino have
spent some time in service in the har,
Dor of the Hawaiian capital have
brought back glowing descriptions Of
the accomplished daughters Of thu
wealthy Chinese sugar planter and his
Portuguese wife. Stories of their pala,
tial home with it's Oriental furnishing
their lavish hospitality and the grace
and beauty of the young women have
come almost as tales from the ARABIAN
Nights" and brand new ensigns and
grizzied captains have Wed with each
other in glowing descriptions of thu
chief ornaments of Honolulu society
The All Fong sisters are 13 in NUNS
Der. Five are married, one, Harriet
being the wife of Capt. Whiting forI
merly of the United States stearSship
Monadnock. One of the unmarried sis,
ters, Lucille, is engaged to lawyer in
New Orleans. All of the unmarried
girls, under the chaperonage of two,ot
the married sisters, will come to this
country about October for an extended
tour.
The combination of Oriental nature
which they inherit from their father
with the romantic disposition which IS
| theirs by their mother, has produced q
happy result From the latter come
their mirth and desire to please, while
their fathers business sense has often
manifested itself in them.
The eldest of the sisters is Mrs Ais
fred Morgan, the wife of a prominent
| merchant OF Honolulu. She is 38, while
the youngest is a. Seven of the girls
are black-eyed with hair of the deepest
ebon hue. One, Mrs. Arthur tombstone,
is blonde, and she is regarded as tha
| belle Of the family. Several of the girls
are tall, but most of them have petitS
ngur1s. Three are of pronounced
| Celestial type, with almond eyes, and
almost all have dark olive complexions
and low, enchanting voices.
The history of the family is not with-
out tinge of romance. Wing All Fong
| arrived at Honolulu one of a shipload
OF coolies. More ambitious than many
OF his countrymen, by diligence and
nard work ne soon managed to build up
business in Chinese silks and brie-a1
Drac' he became wealthy and made
| love to the daughter of a poor Portu-
gnese sailor who had drifted to Hawaii,
Ills eourtship was not opposed, and the
girl became his wife in 1860.
| All Fong put his morey in sugar plan
tatlons, which at that time yielded rich
returns. He attained fortune of saO0
OoO, and the money came pouring into
| mis- capacious Chinese pockets. His wife
liked luxury and he was determined she
should have every wish gratif1ed. He
pullt an enormous mansion, had SER
wants galore and took the greatest de-
light in his growing family. 1t was his
| greatest pleasure to get them all in a
big coach and drive along with all the
girls singing popular songs.
one son had All Fong and that one,
ne declared, should be brought up in
! Chinese fashion. He himself ALWAYS
| carefully guarded his queue and would
seldom consent to don European cos
| tunes. The boy was brought up with
the same notions, but the girls he al.
lowed his wife 70 educate in her own
NJ
hood they grew to be.
| The home he built is one of the sights
of Honolulu. 1t is an odd-looking struc-
ture and has any number of small
] piazzas-fhe envious say that each
daughter may have ner own caller All
| to herself. However that may be, con-
| slant association with naval men and
| tourists has made them ACCOMPLISHED
| conversetionalists and the All Fons
| house is the Mecca of all visitors ia
| Hawaii and Of Americans especially as
a remarkable prediction for Ameri-
cans seems to exist in the minds OF
hearts of the bellies of the South Seas,
But All Fong, tho founder. lives no
longer with his family in Hawaii. In
1872 he made mysterious voyage ia
| China, from which he has never re-
turned. Tradition says that there was a
MRS. All Fong by previous marriage
| in the land of rice fields and pipe
| dreamers, and that to her fond en-
nraces this modern autotype of Ulysses
| mad gone back. His son went with him.
1t was rumored at the time that the
father came near serving a term In
prison for deserving his first wife. The
rest of his family has never heard from
him.
The wedding portion of such All Fong
| sisters as have married has been S150.
600 each, comfortable sum upon which
to begin a matrimonial venture. The
girls all speak English f1uently and can
converse in French, Kanaka and Portu-
guese. They are famed as graceful
| walters and their excellent taste In
| dress is the envy of all Honolulu.
They are not ashamed of their Chin
csc blood and refer to 1t unhesitatingly
in conversation. On the wall of their
| drawing room hangs a large and costly
| portrait of their father in all the glory
| Of his Oriental habiliments, and this
they still point to with pride and rever-
ence. Their visit to this country is like
| ly to be one golden round of receptions
and attentions, and it may be that more
than one scalp win be taken back to
Honolulu dangling from the girdles Of
the beautiful sisters All Fong.